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We’re excited to announce CNET’s Editors' Choice picks for Best of AI, Future Tech and Smart Home. "In this edition of CNET’s Editors' Choice Awards, we reviewed devices and services that were inconceivable a few years ago. The list is full of hands-on tested AI tools and chatbots, VR headsets, smart home devices that our team selected as the best of the best. These top picks shine for their innovation, practicality and value.” - David Katzmaier, Editorial Director of CNET Personal Tech. The CNET Editors' Choice badge represents the strongest recommendation of a product or service evaluated by CNET experts. The award distinguishes the products and services that have made a lasting impression on CNET’s editorial team. To earn an Editors’ Choice distinction, a product or service must be a top pick in its category, score a minimum benchmark when rated, or be selected by a CNET expert based on hands-on testing of the product and its competition. Check out CNET's latest Editors' Choice picks: https://lnkd.in/exK6TEt2 #smarthome #technology #tech #AI #artificialintelligence #expert #advice

"Amid miles of jute, ornate ceiling frescos, curtains that looked like they were melting from the windows and likely unattainably expensive flooring changes, I did find one useful suggestion..." I enjoyed this humorous demo of an AI-driven interior design tool, part of CNET useful AI Atlas. Would you use artificial intelligence to redesign your living room ...?

Prime Day is HAPPENING, folks. As a shopper, I sometimes find the whole thing overwhelming and unappealing — I haven't been looking for anything in particular, and I've read enough stories about pricing tactics to know not every "deal" is as good as it looks. But as an editor? I am so damn impressed with the CNET shopping team's coverage. As of this moment, our live blog already has 157 deals worth looking at. Each of them has been vetted by an experienced shopping writer, and you can tell — they come with smart little writeups about the product and what we like about it. Prime Day just got a lot more appealing.

iOS 18's public beta is out, which is cool, but i promise that if you read this story, there's a picture of a puppy in there for you https://lnkd.in/gHVmyEdV

Here's a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes in preparation to Amazon Prime Day coverage. CNET's lead Social Producer "Lai Frances" walked around the office to tap editors and experts to grab their thoughts on the two-day sale event and what they could possibly be buying. Read more on our latest Prime Day coverage: https://lnkd.in/evaPWrxg #shopping #retail #primeday #amazonprimeday

Amazon Prime Day kicks off Tuesday, July 16 -- CNET has an ongoing live blog here where our editors are rounding up good deals and finds: https://lnkd.in/gdaA_6G4 I popped on Yahoo! Finance to share our top hot tips. Things to consider: ◆ Prime Day's best deals are typically on consumer electronics, smart home products, everyday essentials, and -- unsurprisingly -- Amazon-branded products such as Alexa, Echo, Kindle, and Ring doorbells. ◆ This is the second year Amazon is offering invite-only deals, in which you can enter a lottery for a great deal on a particular item. ◆ Consumers are more choosy and price-conscious, despite CPI dipping slightly last month, as food and housing prices remain volatile. ◆ A browser extension like CamelCamelCamel can help you comparison shop on the fly and ensure you get the best price while shopping online. ◆ Some consumers use Prime Day for their back-to-school shopping, but Walmart.com and Target.com typically have better prices on school supplies. ◆ A Prime membership is required for Prime Day deals, but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. ◆ Don't spend money you don't have. 😘 #amazonprimeday #primeday #amazon

In this week's #AI recap, Samsung builds new devices around AI, why the sparkles emoji is casting glitter over AI companies, Goldman Sachs says AI ROI might not be there & doctors using chatbots in their paperwork fight w/insurers. https://lnkd.in/gAF9dgD7

It happened sooner than I expected. We now have AI-powered talking teddy bears. Poe, the AI Story Bear, creates stories with ChatGPT, and is about to hit retailers. I got an exclusive chance to take home an early version to test with my kids, and you can hear for yourself what it was like in my video and story posted today on CNET. This was a strange experience as a parent, giving my children a generative AI toy, when I care about the content they consume. I don't give my children junk on YouTube, and we read books to the kids almost every night. I sat by them as they picked the ingredients that would make up a bedtime story stew, not knowing what a machine would feed them. Stories sometimes just were a bit weird, existing in a literary uncanny valley. A plot would take random turns to fit all the parameters of the prompts, and ChatGPT tends to overuse a thesaurus. My kids enjoyed the chaos of trying to see how much weird stuff could be packed into a story. I saw how the AI voice and app are still in development, still being tweaked. But this space is developing quickly. Last year, the CEO of VTech told the Financial Times that he saw AI-powered teddy bears reading stories to kids by 2028. But here is Poe, doing just that in 2024. And more parents might use ChatGPT to tell bedtime stories even without the bear. Last month, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, we saw Apple present that its upcoming software will make it easy to use ChatGPT to create stories for children. Is this the future of storytime toys? I remember Teddy Ruxpin quite fondly from my own childhood. The talking bear was the first animatronic talking toy, released in 1985. Teddy Ruxpin moved his snout and blinked his eyes in sync with audio stories played from cassette tapes. It's creation involved a team of writers, musicians, and voice actors. Now, that creativity has been exported to a machine. Poe didn't convince me that it could fill Teddy Ruxpin's place. And it would be foolish to think a talking AI bear could take on the important job of a parent reading to a child. Poe could be used as a tool -- just like ChatGPT is a tool -- for sparking creative conversations with kids. Maybe inspiring kids to make their own stories. But I'm curious how Poe inspires other toy companies to make AI toys. https://lnkd.in/gK4c_xt9

With Amazon gearing for its biggest sale event of the year, so is our team of CNET shopping experts. Before you get into it all, commerce writer Adrian Marlow shares how to shop smarter and get the most of our of your Prime Day shopping. 🛍 Stay up to date with the latest coming from CNET's Prime Day coverage this year with our live blog: https://lnkd.in/evaPWrxg

Aside from a new hinge, new screen and new camera, one of the Galaxy Z Flip 6's biggest features (or at least the one that Samsung hyped the most) is Galaxy AI. And at a time when nearly every phone maker touts ways AI will improve our lives, I wanted to see if such assertions were true. So what better way to spend my first day with the #GalaxyZFlip6 than test it around Paris, right? CNET