Oura has sued Ultrahuman again in a Texas federal court, alleging its redesigned Ring Pro infringes two patents, including one granted just two days before the suit was filed. Oura is seeking damages and another US sales ban, and has also named manufacturer SVTronics as a defendant. Ultrahuman says it will contest the claims, noting US Customs and Border Protection previously cleared the Ring Pro's redesign over an earlier patent dispute.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-23
Retailers are offering early Black Friday discounts on smart bird feeders, including a 29% price cut on the Birdfy Original (blue, with solar) to $127 from $180. A non-solar version is available for $110, while the yellow variant costs about $13 more than the blue one on sale.
wired.com
· 2026-10-23
Projects such as Cleanyourtv (formerly tv-vibehack), tv-detox, and dumbtv have surged in popularity, using LLM-assisted coding to remove ads, block tracking, and speed up smart TVs running Android or Google TV. The tools rely on existing developer modes and Android Debug Bridge access rather than rooting or firmware hacking, making changes reversible, and many users are also building custom homescreen launchers, including one styled after a Pokémon town.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-23
Oura has sued Ultrahuman again in federal court in Texas, alleging the redesigned Ring Pro infringes two patents covering ring design and internal components like the battery and sensors. The suit, filed Thursday, seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction to halt U.S. sales of the Ring Pro, which only returned to the market in February after a prior Oura-driven import ban on Ultrahuman's earlier Ring Air.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-23
A hobbyist project called R2D2 replaces a webOS smart TV's stock interface with a locally hosted home screen, a private sandboxed browser, and a push-to-talk voice assistant. The system works by pairing the TV with a separate Linux compute host that renders Chromium and runs speech-recognition models, streaming output back to the TV over the local network. The creator has published the source code along with detailed warnings that the setup requires rooting the TV and patching vendor system services on one specific firmware build.
github.com
· 2026-10-23
Birdbuddy introduced the Nook, a $99 smart bird feeder with a 2K camera that identifies bird species via its app, with no subscription required. A solar-powered version costs $159, and the company also released a larger Birdbuddy Home model for $219 with a 6-cup capacity.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-22
Google Home Speaker owners reported their devices consuming unusually large amounts of Wi-Fi data, with one user citing three terabytes over two weeks and a WIRED writer finding her own speaker had used 487 GB in ten days. Google told WIRED a server misconfiguration caused some speakers to repeatedly re-download a software update, and said the issue has now been fixed.
wired.com
· 2026-10-22
Coolfly's Aura Smart Bird Feeder is on sale for $149.90, a $140 discount, while Birdfy's camera-equipped feeder is priced at $109.99, $90 off. Birdfy also offers add-on solar panels and bundles with lifetime AI bird identification for $149.99 from Amazon or Birdfy directly.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
Birdbuddy has released two new smart bird feeders, the $99 Nook and the $219 Home, both built around a redesigned camera. The new camera offers a 135-degree rotating wide-angle view and loads live feeds in under eight seconds, much faster than the existing $339 Birdbuddy Pro, though it has slightly worse image quality, narrower viewing angles, and requires removing the entire feeder to charge.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
Birdbuddy has released two smart bird feeders first shown at CES 2026, now renamed the Birdbuddy Nook (formerly Birdbuddy 2 Mini) and Birdbuddy Home (formerly Birdbuddy 2). The Nook starts at $99 with a 2K HDR camera and 135-degree field of view, with solar and extended-perch versions priced at $159 and $199, while the $219 Home adds dual solar panels and a larger reservoir. Both are available now on Birdbuddy's site, with wider retail availability later this month.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-22
Alloop unveiled a wearable system called the Trio, made up of four interchangeable pieces: a wristband, a ring, a sensor module called the Cube, and a feedback unit called Halo. Users can mix and match these components into different wearable configurations, snapping the Cube into either the wristband or ring. The Cube tracks metrics like heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, breathing rate and temperature, feeding data into an app that includes a sleep score, a 'Bio Age' estimate, and an AI health agent.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-21
A Northeastern University study found that smart TVs running Samsung, Vizio and Roku operating systems continued transmitting data to automatic content recognition (ACR) servers even after users disabled tracking in settings. Researchers tested 12 smart TVs across eight operating systems from 10 manufacturers, running nearly 6,000 controlled experiments to monitor network traffic to and from ACR endpoints.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-21
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