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Sunseeker is following a new trend with its budget-priced model L3 robot lawn mower: It eliminates boundary wires by combining AI vision with LiDAR to autonomously map and navigate your yard, ditching the need for a GPS antenna. The budget-priced bot will be one of the least expensive smart devices of its kind when it launches in the U.S. for $999 in January 2026. On display now at the IFA trade show in Berlin, the Sunseeker L3 will be able to handle lawns up to 1,000 square meters (0.25 acres) can create up to two separate maps, which will make it useful for more than one location. It’s a tiny mower, with a cutting width of just 7.1 inches (18cm) and an adjustable cutting height of between 0.8 to 2.4 inches (20- to 60mm). That maximum cutting height seems short for American lawns. When I’ve had other robots set that low, it has revealed bare patches in my lawn after dry spells. Sunseeker compares the L3’s feature set and specs to those of the Dreame A1 Pro, a LiDAR-only mower popular in the Europe, but that is not yet offered in the U.S. Dreame’s mower sits a bit higher, with a cutting height of 1.2- to 2.8 inches (30 to 70mm), and it has a wider cutting radius of 8.7 inches (22cm). The Sunseeker L3 looks small, but mighty The Sunseeker L3 use cameras, LiDAR, and AI to identify and avoid obstacles in its path.Sunseeker I hope the L3 lives up to the hype. I was very impressed with the more-sophisticated Sunseeker Orion X7 when I reviewed it in September 2024; it’s one of the best mowers I’ve tested in terms of obstacle avoidance. That mower blends RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) and vision combined with machine learning to navigate your yard. Vision combined with LiDAR is a less expensive means of navigation, with two-dimensional vision providing a much better means of identifying obstacles to be avoided and LiDAR adding a three-dimensional element. Adding quick-learning artificial intelligence on top of that should endow this mower with outstanding navigation abilities. But the L3’s sensors and cameras don’t only look ahead at the grass to be cut, Sunseeker says its AllSense technology also looks down and uses AI and camera positioning to detect small obstacles that forward-looking mowers might miss. If the Orion X7 was that good without LiDAR, and the L3 employs an even better version of Sunseeker’s machine learning technology, I have high expectations for its performance. We’ll see if it can live up to that—and if I can tolerate its short cutting height—when we put a review sample through its paces unit next spring. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best robot lawn mowers. Read...

With the content we create now reaching a global audience, it’s essential that local languages are used if you want your message to be understood. Up until recently, this has required using professional translation services which take time and money. But, thanks to the powerful AI capabilities of Adobe Firefly, you can quickly and easily turn your English-speaking audio into Spanish, French, Chinese or many other languages with only a few clicks. Here’s how Adobe Firefly can make sure you’re heard all around the world. What is Adobe Firefly? Firefly is Adobe’s generative AI solution, which allows users to create or enhance images, videos and audio, as well as translate languages. It’s found as a component in many of the Adobe apps – such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe Express – but also works as a standalone app and can be accessed via the web. The hallmark of Adobe Firefly is its simplicity, as the software features an intuitive interface that makes it a great tool for those who don’t want a huge learning curve to be able to access its incredible features. How Adobe Firefly can help you speak to an international audience While video and images are often universal, audio has a far more localised focus. It’s true that much of the world speaks English, but there are many places where that isn’t the case. Also, it’s better to speak to people in their own language rather than expect them to understand yours. With this in mind, Adobe Firefly’s translation capabilities are an excellent way to create promotional campaigns, YouTube content, TikTok videos or in-house training material that can be delivered to audiences in their native tongue. All you need is an existing video with the audio recorded in a single language. Simply visit the Adobe Firefly web app, select the Translate Video option, upload your content, choose the language (you can have up to five at a time) you want it translated into, then Firefly will take care of the rest. Adobe One of the best features, is that you don’t just get a generic voice in the translation, as Firefly uses its AI technology to keep the tone, cadence and emotions of the original vocals, ensuring that the finished video sounds authentic and natural. Accompanying the audio is also a transcription, which is written in the appropriate language so you don’t have to find another way to translate that as well. With over 20 languages currently available, Adobe Firefly is the fast and simple way to bring an international feel to your content, without the additional costs of translation or localisation that would make this impossible for many creators. Try Adobe Firefly today Adobe Firefly is a powerful way to ensure your message is understood all across the globe. To start using the translation service you can sign up to the Firefly Standard tier that costs $9.99/£9.98p/m and lets you translate up to six minutes of audio or video. If you need more, then there’s the Firefly Pro tier, which gives you 23 minutes of translation for $29.99/£28.99 p/m.  Try out Adobe Firefly Today! With the world being more in touch than ever, Adobe Firefly is the low-cost, low-effort way to expand your audience and reach people that would have been forever locked behind the barrier of language. Now, they’re only a few clicks away. Read...

Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the latest topics on our YouTube show or the hot news from across the web? You’re in the right place. Want this newsletter to come directly to your inbox? Sign up on our website! I’ve been called “process oriented” more than once in my life. I don’t mind. People take systems for granted, but their structure provides a sense of safety and security. Until they don’t. I feel a lot people missed the point last month, when news circulated about 2.5 billion Google users potentially at risk following a data leak. Everyone immediately jumped to the idea that passwords needed to be changed—not a bad instinct, as we ended up discussing on The Full Nerd this week. But as that very conversation illustrates, people usually focus on the smaller details: who got hacked, if data was leaked, and whether a password change is warranted. (Spoiler: I believe that changing a password takes so little time, you should just do it when the topic ever comes up.) What most folks don’t focus on the fact that Google’s data leak happened through a major third-party vendor—and followed on the heels of other major companies suffering data leaks through the same source. That external company is Salesforce, no small player either. When I hop on my computer or phone each day, I believe in the technology. I assume the services and apps I use won’t add extra demands to my day. But with the ever-expanding scope of data breaches and leaks, that trust is slipping. And perhaps it’s a good thing that it is. A password manager is just one part of keeping on top of security disasters that are out of our control. IDG As end users, you and I have little control over the systems we all rely on. But we do have a say over our response to chaos. Problems occur when I assume peace and tranquility, and then a huge disruption lands on my doorstep. Right now, people focus on what to do in the moment, and breathe a sigh of relief when the damage doesn’t appear to be widespread. For this example, Google ended up clarifying that no accounts were compromised as a result of the Salesforce leak—and the talk started turning to no one having to worry. I’m a contrarian on this point. I say we should keep talking about how to handle online security, especially as the largest players fall victim to exploits. Not just the thing to do at the moment, but how easily a person can enact those changes. So yes, folks should know to update their passwords any time there’s a breach. That’s still vitally important. But a user should ideally be able to rotate a password in just a few minutes, too—they should operate in a way where it can happen fast, without needing to be thought about again later on. Because what happens on the day that Google does fall to a breach? Or DNS finally folds in on itself because hackers are no longer content to mess around for sheer amusement? Most people haven’t planned for such disruption.  How well would you cope? In this episode of The Full Nerd In this episode of The Full Nerd, Alaina Yee, Brad Chacos, Will Smith, and Michael Crider chat about AM4 getting another extension on life and the current best practices for online security. At least, that’s what went on the books—in practice, we squeezed in a bonus discussion about AMD’s ROCm software, based on Will’s recent interview. I may also be sporting a very special new look this week.  (I can’t say it grew on me—at least not literally—but you know what, I’d do it again sometime after Adam returns from his IFA travels.) Welcome to this episode of The Full Beard.Willis Lai / Foundry Missed our live show? Subscribe now to The Full Nerd Network YouTube channel, and activate notifications. We also answer viewer questions in real-time! Don’t miss out on our NEW shows too—you can catch the episodes Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd: Extra Edition now! And if you need more hardware talk during the rest of the week, come join our Discord community—it’s full of cool, laid-back nerds. This week’s wonderous nerd news A long holiday weekend in the U.S. makes for quieter news, but some nifty science, several fun projects (including a retro gaming setup that works off your PC), and a new gaming keypad got my brain going. My wallet is also lighter now, too. It’s pretty, for sure.Keychron An engineer used AI to convert ASCII art to real-time graphics: The concept definitely caught my attention. AI as a “translator” between mediums is an interesting idea. (As for how good the art looks…let’s chalk that up to matter of taste.) Car transmission fluid, the new coolant? I present to you this week’s contender for “Why? Well, why not?” (That said, this experiment netted 7 to 16 percent performance gains. Nice.) You can turn a USB flash drive into a portable games console: This fun project comes courtesy of my colleague Dominic Bayley. It leans on an inexpensive thumb drive and Batocera to work, plus whatever input (controller or keyboard) you like best. And ROMs that you have legal standing to use, of course. I’m onboard for this style of nostalgia: This LEGO concept is neat—and we should push it further. Translucent plastic cases always looked good. Give me more products like the Teenage Engineering PC case, but in original iMac candy colors! This homebrew Commodore 64 Datasette sports 1MB per tape: I can only aspire to this level of ingenuity. Keychron has a new one-handed gaming keypad: But oof, that price tag. It actually made me just bite the bullet on its far cheaper sibling, in order to try my hand at full keyboard gaming. Wish me luck, I’m gonna need it. So much cool science: I’m a simple person. Jelly ice and glowing succulents sound dope. I’m becoming more of a PC gamer for this reason: Console prices have now bucked their historical trends and gone up while aging—a result of U.S. tariffs. Meanwhile, I just bought another Steam license for Untitled Goose Game because I could afford it. (Am I a real PC gamer now?) Catch you all next week—maybe by then, I can report back on how my attempt to transition from my specialized PC gaming controller to full keyboard navigation is going. I have a feeling my initial notes will include a lot of colorful language. Alaina This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Mah Ung, founder and host of The Full Nerd, and executive editor of hardware at PCWorld. Read...

Reolink is showing two new products at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week. Well, make that one new product and what it promises is a big leap forward in the AI engine powering its latest home security cameras and select NVRs (Network Video Recorders). With ReoNeura, Reolink’s gext-gen AI security system, Reolink says it’s committed to “delivering user-centric smart security solutions that set new standards for modern surveillance.” That’s a big claim, considering how unimpressed we were with its earlier Local AI Video Search in our review of the otherwise excellent Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi. Given that that software was released in beta form shortly before we finished our review of that otherwise excellent product, we didn’t let it stop us from naming the $220 floodlight cam an Editors’ Choice winner. The fact that this AI processing can occur on the camera itself or on some Reolink NVRs without requiring a subscription is immensely appealing. That said, Reolink says AI processing that is performed in the cloud “unlocks advanced AI capabilities without hardware upgrades.”   This brochure lists just a few of the features of Reolink’s new ReoNeura AI.Reolink Reolink’s promise is that users will be able to use natural-language queries to search a camera’s video recordings to find specific events, eliminating the need to scrub through hours of events to find the ones you care about. Entering prompts such as “white SUV,” “person wearing a hat,” or “man in red shirt” should immediately surface clips with those elements in them. ReoNeura is supposed to go far beyond that to enable a wide range of advanced capabilities, including person, pet, and object detection that goes beyond identifying packages to being able to differentiate cars and bicycles as well as boxes. A “smart event detection” feature, meanwhile, will also notify you when an object has been removed from its field of view or if a door has been left opened. Perimeter protection feature gives the camera the ability to actively detect and deter unauthorized access to a property, including loiterers. A video captioning  feature can automatically summarize video recordings into plain-language summaries, so you don’t need to watch an entire clip to discern what happened. Reolink’s ReoNeura technology will be available on several existing security cameras, including the Reolink Duo 3 WiFi we reviewed in January 2025, the aforementioned Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi, and, of course, the new TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi. Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi camera The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera features dual 4K lenses mounted to a pan/tilt motor.Reolink Where the Reolink Elite Floodlight WiFi has dual 4K cameras in a fixed-position body, the new TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi has dual 4K lenses mounted to a motor that can pan them 355 degrees and tilt 50 degrees to cover even more territory. (For this camera, Reolink defines 4K as 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, and the camera records at 20 frames per second.) Local storage is also available, either in the form of a user-supplied microSD card in capacities as high as 512GB or via Reolink’s Home Hub product or one of its NVRs.   The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera is outfitted with dual dimmable LED floodlights that deliver up to 3,000 lumens of brightness that can project as far as 40 feet. Their white color temperature can be tuned from a warm 3,000 degrees Kelvin to a crisp 6,000K. We’ll have a complete hands-on review of the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi Camera as soon as we can get a review sample. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best home security cameras. Read...

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Mammotion announced a new robot mower navigation platform ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin on Thursday: Its Tri-Fusion Positioning System combines LiDAR, Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), and vision capabilities into a single system. Combining two of these technologies is not uncommon. Older mowers have used a combination of LiDAR and RTK for much of the past half-decade, while combining one or the other with vision navigation has gained favor more recently. And while some robot mowers have all three technologies onboard, they aren’t necessarily connected for navigation, and serve other mower operation purposes. Mammotion says Tri-Fusion is the culmination of nine years of development effort, and that it be made available as firmware updates for its recently released Luba Mini AWD LiDAR and the Yuka Mini Vision robot lawn mowers as well as several yet-to-be-announced models. Mammotion “Whether you have a compact city garden or a sprawling countryside lawn, it delivers high-accuracy mowing in any environment, sunlit or shaded, open or obstructed, flat or hilly,” said Mammotion CEO Jayden Wei No positioning technology is perfect Each navigation technology has its own strengths and weaknesses. Vision has given mowers the capability to accurately detect and avoid obstructions, but it’s useless in low-light conditions, which is LiDAR’s strength. Vision combined with LiDAR isn’t perfect either, especially for wide-open lawns. Without any reference objects to help a mower orient itself in the world, navigation will fail. And while RTK is the best solution for precise positioning, a mower has no means of identifying obstacles in its way, and its signal is easily obstructed by trees and buildings (ask Husqvarna about that issue). By combining the three technologies into a single platform, Mammotion claims that true centimeter-level positioning accuracy can be achieved. Such a claim is not new and has been made in marketing for past Vision/RTK-enabled mowers we’ve seen and reviewed. The catch is that you need to set up the mower as closed to the manufacturer’s recommendations as possible, something I’ve yet been able to accomplish in my testing. Available in the U.S. and U.K. later in 2025 The Mammotion Luba Mini AWD LiDAR (€2,299), which can handle lawns up to 1,500 square meters (0.37 acres), was launched in Europe on July 31. The smaller Yuka Mini Vision (€1,199) is also now available in Europe. It can maintain lawns up to 700 square meters (0.17 acres). Both mowers will ship to the U.S. and U.K markets later this year. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best robot lawn mowers. Read...

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Govee is upping the ante with its latest TV backlight kit, adding a triple-camera picture sensor that can capture HDR images while going toe-to-toe with competing HDMI-based TV backlights, the company says.  Showing off its latest wares at IFA in Berlin this week, Govee is also unveiling an upgraded set of permanent outdoor lights with a new tri-LED design (the power of three is a theme for Govee at this year’s show), along with new holidays lights, a star light projector, and a new pendant light.  Slated for release on September 29, the Govee TV Backlight 3 Pro (pricing TBD) comes with a screen-mounted image sensor that packs three cameras rather than just one or two.  Working together, the three tiny cameras can capture both long and short exposures, good for detecting the highlights in bright scenes as well as the details in shadows and dark areas of the screen, while an HDR sensor merges the exposures for “precise color sampling” and a “theater-quality picture texture,” according to Govee.  The tri-camera sensor on Govee’s TV Backlight 3 Pro can detect HDR imagery.Govee The tri-lens camera is paired with a revamped light strip that boasts a high-density lamp bead design, 16-bit color chips, and five-way RGBWWIC independent light control technology for “even and full” colors as well as accurate white-light performance (the acronym stands for (red, green, blue, white, and warm-white integrated circuits). Then there’s Govee’s “LuminBlend” light-blending algorithm, which is designed to boost the saturation of bright colors while keeping low-saturation hues looking natural.  Compatible with Matter, the TV Backlight 3 Pro can be connected to up to 10 other Govee lights via the brand’s DreamView syncing feature, good for an immersive whole-room home theater experience.  Overall, Govee’s tri-camera TV Backlight 3 Pro is poised to rival the accuracy of HDMI-based TV backlight systems such as the Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, which directly analyzes HDMI signals rather than relying on a TV-mounted camera. Can it deliver? We’ll find out once we see Govee’s new TV backlight in action.  Next up from Govee is another updated product with a triple-threat new features—in this case, a tri-LED light head.  Set to go on sale September 22 (pricing is still up in the air), the Govee Permanent Outdoor Light Prism is yet another kit of outdoor string lights designed to be permanently installed on the outside of your home.   Govee’s Permanent Outdoor Light Prism boasts triple-LED light heads.Govee What makes the Matter-enabled Permanent Outdoor Light Prism special is the design of the individual light heads, with each head packing three LEDs with their own RGBWW chipsets.   Powered (as with the TV Backlight 3 Pro) by Govee’s LuminBlend color management technology, the lights can glow in up to 16 million colors while promising “seamless” gradients and “fluid” color transitions, Govee says.  The light heads for Govee’s latest permantent outdoor lights each pack three LEDs with their own RGBWW chipsets.Govee Available in 30-, 45-, and 60-meter lengths, the IP68-weatherized Govee Permanent Outdoor Light Prism can be cut and spliced to fit. You can install the lights using 3M adhesive tape, while pre-drilled screw holes allow for securing the strips more tightly.  Govee is also showing off a quartet of additional lighting products at IFA, all of which work with Matter.  Slated for release on September 8, the Govee Curtain Light Pro ($199.99) comes with 950 RGBIC beads woven into a 30 x 32-pixel matrix, ideal for covering windows, garage doors, walls, or other large surfaces or entryways.   The Govee Pendant Light (available September 17, pricing TBD) boasts a trio of light zones on its side, bottom, and curved surface, while the Govee Christmas Sparkle String Lights (on sale September 24) packs high-density diffused milky white bullet-head LEDs for a “dazzling, smooth starry sparkle.”  Finally, the Govee Star Light Projector (on sale September 26, no pricing details yet) serves up seven-zone “dynamic nebula” effects with green laser stars, good for turning any room into an instant planetarium.  This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart lights. Read...