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Miles, a $99 OBD-II device from cofounders Matt McGovern and Kit Klein, tracks a vehicle's location, driving behavior, and health, and includes emergency accident response and roadside assistance. It pairs with an app that shows parents and teen drivers the same trip data and alerts, plus an AI chatbot called Miles Mechanic that interprets dashboard warning lights and estimates repair costs.
A High Court judge ruled that claims worth about £340m brought by roughly 13,000 London black cab drivers and two defunct private hire firms, Kabbie and Iride, were filed too late and dismissed them without examining the underlying allegations. The claimants had accused Uber of giving Transport for London misleading information when it first secured its operating licence in 2012. Mr Justice Birt found the claimants could have uncovered the alleged deception before 2018, putting the 2024 lawsuits outside the six-year limitation period.
A new consumer guide explains that Bluetooth speakers often list two different power figures: peak power, which measures short-burst maximum output, and RMS power, which reflects sustained continuous output. Manufacturers frequently advertise only the higher peak figure, and retailers like Target often omit wattage details entirely, as seen with the JBL Go 4.
Amazon is selling the Razer Kraken V4 X gaming headset for $54.39, its lowest price in months. The headset includes USB-C and USB-A connectivity and 40mm drivers, and currently holds a 4.5-star rating on Amazon.
A reviewer tested Technics' EAH-A1000 headphones, praising their bass response, soundstage and adaptive active noise cancellation. The reviewer compared the sound favorably to the Sennheiser HDB 630, noting a bigger sense of space, while suggesting the high frequencies could use slightly more brightness on tracks like AC/DC and the Arctic Monkeys.
A developer trying to digitize family photo negatives found their Plustek 8200i scanner's new chipset lacked Linux support. Inspired by a method shared by Tom Crider for fixing a mouse driver, they used Claude AI alongside a Windows VM to capture USB data during scans, producing a working SANE driver within hours and a near-complete one, including infrared support, within days. They also built a companion scanning app called Negative Vibes, though they later found someone had independently submitted official SANE support for the same scanner.
Engadget's review of Bose's Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar found it easy to set up via the Bose app's CustomTune calibration and praised its bass output, up-firing drivers and PhaseGuide technology for immersive sound on both movies and music. The soundbar can be expanded with a $899 Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer or $349 Lifestyle Ultra Speakers, or purchased as part of discounted bundles.
HeyPolo has introduced a comprehensive family safety app that provides real-time location sharing, driving behavior tracking, and emergency alerts for teenage drivers. The app records trips, scores driving habits, and detects crashes, giving parents detailed insights into their teens' driving safety within a single platform. Features include arrival notifications, SOS alerts, and behavior analysis to promote safer driving habits.
Microsoft is broadening its Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) service beyond AMD Radeon GPUs to also support Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm graphics hardware on Windows PCs, with support arriving later in October. ASD streams precompiled shaders from the cloud rather than requiring each PC to compile them locally, a process Microsoft says it can shrink from several minutes to a few seconds. The feature currently works with Gears of War: E-Day and was confirmed by DirectX program manager Wendy Ho in a company blog post.
Amazon plans to equip 5,000 delivery drivers with AI smart glasses by the end of 2026, scaling to over 20,000 by 2027, according to a Bloomberg report citing Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee. The glasses capture frequent static images of everything in a driver's view while on foot, including recipients and bystanders, which are reviewed by Amazon staff and fed into its Wellspring AI mapping platform. Amazon disputes characterizations of the system as surveillance, while confirming no customer opt-out option currently exists.
Bloomberg reports that Amazon's new smart glasses for delivery drivers will take several thousand photos during a typical shift, feeding them into Amazon's AI Wellspring platform. Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee said faces and license plates will be blurred before human review, but confirmed the company hasn't considered letting customers opt out, and images could be obtained with a warrant. Amazon plans to deploy 20,000 more pairs of the glasses by the end of 2027, after a pilot program that has logged over 275,000 deliveries.
Technics has announced the EAH-A1000, its new flagship adaptive noise-cancelling over-ear headphones, marking the brand's first use of 40mm magnetic fluid drivers in this category. The headphones use surround sound technology edges to cut distortion, multiple microphones per ear for adaptive noise cancellation, and support LDAC and lossless USB Audio playback. Technics claims up to 45 hours of battery life but has not disclosed pricing or release timing.