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Google has halted production of the Nest Wifi, and Amazon is clearing out the remaining stock.

For the third year in a row, Amazon is ringing in the fall with a second Prime Day event. This year’s two-day shopping event — dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — runs through the end of today, October 9th, giving Amazon Prime subscribers a chance to chip away at their holiday wishlist before Black Friday and Cyber Monday land later this year. Amazon already has a glut of great deals on offer, and we’re seeing steep discounts on Amazon’s own devices, including Fire tablets, Echo speakers, Eero routers, Kindles, and more. The online retailer is also slashing prices on a variety of other electronics, from noise-canceling headphones and earbuds to video doorbells and some of our favorite robot vacuums. As usual, we’ll be scouring Amazon’s landing...

It’s not a successor to the Switch, but Nintendo does have a new piece of hardware to announce: a motion-controlled alarm clock. The device is called Alarmo, and it “responds to your movements,” which means you can snooze it with a gesture or stop it by actually getting out of bed. It costs $99.99 and will be available in early 2025, though Nintendo says Switch Online subscribers can purchase it early right now. It appears this is the mystery Nintendo gadget that hit the Federal Communications Commission last month, which revealed that the device features a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radio and a 24GHz mmWave sensor. In addition to the motion features, a big part of the device appears to be its immersive sounds, which are pulled from five different...

Casio Japan is releasing a new desk clock that will be familiar to those who’ve eschewed smartwatches in favor of simpler digital timepieces. It’s a supersized version of the Casio A158W digital watch that could make for a great nightstand alarm clock, although you may not want to hide its retro charm in your bedroom. Officially called the DQD-851J-8JF, the clock will be exclusively available in Japan starting on October 25th for 4,378 yen (around $29). That’s even cheaper than the Casio A158W watch because the clock is made from plastic instead of stainless steel. The desk clock also lacks a stopwatch and a chime that rings at the top of each hour but adds features not found on Casio’s basic digital watches like a thermometer and a...

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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three scientists today — two of whom are significant figures at Google DeepMind — for their work around proteins, which the Nobel Prize committee describes as the “chemical tools of life.” DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and senior DeepMind research scientist John Jumper received the award for creating the open-source AlphaFold2 AI model to calculate the structure of human proteins. “With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified,” the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its announcement. David Baker, who shares the prize with Hassabis and Jumper, was awarded for “computational...

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The Amazon-owned home-surveillance business will offer users the ability to search footage for specific objects and actions. WIRED gave it a try.

Saber Interactive says its game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will have a fitting feature that might seem obvious but wasn’t guaranteed: using your microphone, the game will alert the in-game monsters to your presence if they hear you make a sound — both in the game and out. And if they hear you, they come for you. Just like in the movie! The microphone part is optional, though I’d definitely turn it on myself. While Saber says giving the game access to your microphone could mean that the game’s monsters can “detect every sound you make in real life,” it appears from the trailer that even your controller vibrating or your dryer running could put you in danger. A Quiet Place is far from the only game to use a microphone as part of play...

Ring’s new Smart Video Search lets you search through recorded footage to find everything from a lost cat to a red sweater. According to Ring, the AI-powered feature can locate specific events in your Ring video history based on natural language searches, such as “a black cat at night,” “a red truck in the rain,” and “a kid riding a bike yesterday.” Compared to Ring’s current smart notifications, which can alert you to doorbell rings, people, or packages, Smart Video Search opens up a whole new level of historical insight. The feature is launching today in beta for users in the US with the Ring Protect Pro plan ($19.99 a month). At launch, Ring says it can search for queries related to animals, vehicles, packages, and people, which can...