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At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Attractive industrial design RGBWW LEDs deliver millions of colors and selectable white color temperatures Individual lights are rated IP65 for protection from the elements Can be triggered by Eufy security cameras Cons Lights deliver more ambience than illumination (350 lumens each) Maximum reach from the power supply to the fourth and final bollard is 50 feet Power supply has only an IP44 weatherization rating Our Verdict Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 are an affordable means of illuminating your walkways, decorating your landscaping, and enhancing your home security when combined with cameras, but they’re not best in class.  Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 Retailer Price $129.99 ($32.50 / Count) View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Anker’s Eufy division has been going all out developing new and innovative outdoor lighting products, with its latest offering being the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 reviewed here. As with Eufy’s other landscape lighting products, including the Eufy Outdoor Spotlights E10 we reviewed in December 2024, these path lights connect directly to your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network (after an initial connection via Bluetooth; 5GHz Wi-Fi networks are not supported). You can also use a Bluetooth-only connection with these lights, but a Wi-Fi connection is needed to unlock their complete feature set. I’ll go into more detail about what you can do with the lights later. Specifications These tall and attractive bollard-style lights feature aluminum enclosures with a matte black finish and RGBWW LEDs inside, meaning each light has discrete red, green, blue, and warm white diods to deliver saturated colors and tunable white color temperatures. Each bollard’s light radiates from a 3.5-inch-high band of frosted plastic encircling the enclosure and a second shorter lens of the same style atop the cylinder, so light shines up as well as out. The Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 kit consists of four bollard-style lights and stakes, a power supply, and an on/off switch inline of 50 feet of low-voltage electrical cable.Michael Brown/Foundry The lights aren’t super bright, however, delivering just 350 lumens each; don’t expect a large pool of light to illuminate a path (the Eufy Outdoor Spotlights E10 are brighter, producing 500 lumens each, but four of those would set you back $200 versus $170 for this kit). In addition to a rainbow of colors, you can tune these pathlights’ white color temperature from a very warm 1500 Kelvin to an extremely cool 9000K (natural sunlight is roughly between 4000- and 6500K, depending on conditions and the time of day). The lights are individually addressable, so you can choose a distinct shade for each light. You can also assign animation routines that will cycle the colors through the chain. That’s in addition to the many preset lighting effects that I’ll discuss in more detail later. Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 are rugged and well protected from the elements, and they produce very good quality light. Each Eufy Outdoor Pathway Light is about 15 inches tall, and they come with 6-inch stakes for installation in soft soil. Unlike the much more expensive Philips Hue Calla bollard light I reviewed several years ago ($130 for one, not including the power supply or the required Hue bridge), Eufy doesn’t provide any means for installing the lights on hardscape, such as a deck or a concrete patio. While Eufy gives the individual bollards a weatherization rating of IP65, meaning the lights are impervious to dust ingress and that they can withstand a blast from a pressure washer at a reasonable distance, the power supply they depend on is an ordinary wall wart with a much weaker weatherization rating of just IP44. Eufy uses rugged DIN-style barrel connectors that are well protected from the elements.Michael Brown/Foundry According to TechHive’s IP code guide, that means the power supply is only protected against particulate matter larger than 1 millimeter, but that it can withstand water sprayed from any direction. Given that, you’ll want to ensure the power supply is at least plugged into an outlet with a bubble cover to protect it from rain. The lights have an operating temperature range of -4 degrees Fahrenheit to 104F. Installation and setup Eufy uses barrel-type DIN connectors that are well protected from water to make each cable connection. The cable itself carries only 27 volts of electricity, so it can be buried directly in a 6-inch trench, as per the National Electrical Code (specifically, NEC 3000.5(A)). For this temporary installation, I took the easy way out and just covered it with mulch. (Pro gardening tip: mulch also happens to be the best weed deterrent for the money, provided you put it down thick enough to prevent sunlight from reaching any weed seeds in your soil). The system’s maximum cable run is about 50 feet, with each bollard spaced 9.8 feet apart. You can put the lights closer together if you’d like, but they can be no more than 9.8 feet apart. There’s an 11-inch first segment, leading from the power supply to a 13.4-foot cable that has a small puck-style on/off switch in the middle. The next segment is 4.9 feet long and goes from that cable to the first light in your run. The remaining three lights are then spaced 9.8 feet apart, as I’ve already mentioned. The first three lights connect to a T junction on the low-voltage cable, but the cable terminates in a single-ended connection; the run cannot be extended beyond four lights.Michael Brown/Foundry As does Philips, Eufy uses T-connectors to connect the first three lights to the run of power cable (there’s a single-ended connector at the end of the run). Unlike Philips, however, Eufy’s system cannot be extended beyond four lights—its power supply can’t handle the additional load, and the cable terminates in a single connector (not a T). If 50 feet isn’t enough to run the length of your walkway, you’ll need to buy another 4-light kit and power supply. But that alone won’t solve your distance issue, because you shouldn’t rely on even an outdoor-rated extension cord for permanent lighting—and you certainly shouldn’t bury such a high-voltage (120V) cord in the ground. These are some of the reasons I like the Philips Hue approach so much. You can buy larger or smaller power supplies, depending on how many lights you intend to deploy, and Philips Hue cables and connectors are much more versatile when it comes to overall length, the distance between lights, and branching. Using the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 This inline on/off button will be useful for those times when you don’t have your phone and you’re out of range of a smart speaker.Michael Brown/Foundry You’ll want to plug in all the lights and add them to either the Eufy app or the Eufy Life app before you place them permanently, just in case you encounter any defects that would prompt you to return the kit. This will also give you an opportunity to install any firmware updates that might be available. The Eufy app is used primarily for Eufy security cameras, smart locks, video doorbells, and its security system, but you can use it to set up and later control at least some of the features of the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights. You’ll need to use the Eufy Life app, however, to access all the features of Eufy’s smart lighting products. You control Eufy’s pathlights over a Bluetooth connection, but you’ll want to use Wi-Fi to get the full value out of the product, including its AI features.Michael Brown/Foundry You can use either app to customize the color or the white color temperature of the lights or to choose from dozens of lighting scenes based on holidays, seasons, emotions, events, or even flags or the weather. An AI feature, meanwhile, will generate custom lighting scenes based on up to 100-character phrases you type into the app. Some of the phrases the app suggests are: “Today is my birthday;” “My wife loves me;” and “Ocean waves at sunset.” You can use your phone’s camera to capture text for this purpose, but you can’t use its mic to record phrases. This novel AI feature is mildly entertaining, but it doesn’t really add all that much value to the package. Linking Eufy’s pathlights to a Eufy security camera The most important feature you’ll want to enable in the Eufy Life app—assuming you also own one of the many Eufy security cameras that features Eufy’s WonderLink technology—is to configure one of those cameras to trigger Eufy smart lights. This capability isn’t unique to Eufy smart home products; Ring security cameras, for example, can trigger Ring smart lights, and Philips Hue security cameras can do the same with Philips Hue lights. But in all three cases, the cameras can only trigger lights made by the same manufacturer. There are workarounds—you can set up a routine in IFTTT or in the Alexa app, for example—but workarounds are never as easy as using a native app. Perhaps when security cameras become a category in the Matter standard, that limitation will fall away. If you also own Eufy security cameras, video doorbells, or certain other Eufy products, you can use the Eufy Life app to have those devices trigger the pathlights to light up with your choice of scenes. Michael Brown/Foundry In any event, you’ll click on the LuminoLink button at the bottom right-hand side of the Eufy Life app. This will open an IFTTT-like configuration screen that lets you choose devices to serve as triggers and devices that will perform actions when your defined conditions are met. Within the Eufy Life app, I configured a Eufy S330 security camera to trigger the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights to turn on a “Welcome” scene at 100 percent brightness when the camera detects a person in its field of view between sunset and sunrise. You can choose from dozens of such lighting scenes or create your own. This review is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart lighting. You can also set up a trigger that sets the pathlights to flashing red if the camera detects a person, but while the camera and the Eufy Homebase 3 NAS box that works with it can discern between friends, family, neighbors, and strangers, you can’t restrict the light’s triggered behavior to when a stranger is detected. Should you buy Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10? The Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 is one of the better smart lighting solutions out there. The lights are rugged and well protected from the elements, and they produce very good quality light in colors and white color temperatures. And its ability to link to Eufy cameras is a very good feature, although it would be even more useful if it could trigger a lighting behavior when the camera detects a stranger. But a power supply that’s limited to supporting four lights and 50 feet of wire is only enough for a relatively short path. The maximum distance between each bollard is another drawback. 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Bullshit trailers are a blight on YouTube. And they have been for a long time. Just throw together clips of older movies and actors, title it “The Dark Knight Rises 2: Robin’s First Flight,” and sit back and watch the clicks (and the ad revenue) roll in. But with generative “AI” videos now just a few clicks away, they’ve become an infestation, clogging up every relevant search. YouTube has finally had enough. AI-generated trailers have created a huge crop of videos that do nothing but lie to viewers by stealing a movie studio’s IP and then regurgitating it back at you, all delivered with a tiny “concept” disclaimer somewhere in the description text (and often not even that). It is genuinely horrible stuff, all the more detestable because it takes about three minutes of human work and hours upon hours of datacenter computation, boiling the planet and benefiting no one and nothing in the process. I have half a mind to [Editor’s note: At this point Michael ranted for approximately 1500 words on the evils of the AI industry and those who use its products. Terms like “perfidious” and “blatherskite” were used, along with some shorter ones that we won’t repeat. Suffice it to say, he is rather upset.] After letting them run rampant for a couple of years, it looks like YouTube is finally cracking down on these slop factories. Deadline reports that YouTube has suspended a total of four separate channels dedicated to AI-generated trailers for fake movies (or real, upcoming movies that don’t have trailers yet). Two were suspended back in March, and their alternate channels have now been smacked with the same banhammer. The channels, allegedly created by just two individual users, are not actually removed from the platform. But they cannot monetize their videos, and are presumably suffering some pretty big losses in search visibility as well. Combined, the initial two channels had more than two million subscribers. Deadline doesn’t have specific statements from YouTube on what policies the channels violated, but speculates that YouTube finally decided to enforce its misinformation policy, basic original material policies that mirror US copyright and fair use rules, and guidelines that deter uploaders from creating videos with the “sole purpose of getting views.” It didn’t take long to find an example of this slop. A search for “star wars trailer 2026” shows two blatantly fake AI trailers, complete with Disney logos on the thumbnails, popping up in search ahead of the first results from the official Star Wars channel itself. The latest one was generated less than a week ago, splicing in clips from the real movies with AI-generated video clips and narration trained on the actors’ voices. Awkward and unconvincing shifts between short splices of video show the current limitations of the technology, even after it has progressed rapidly. A Deadline report in March brought broader attention to the AI trailer problem, highlighting that some Hollywood studios have chosen to use YouTube’s content flagging system to simply claim the ad revenue from the fake trailer rather than getting them removed. After all, if someone else is doing all the “work” and getting paid, why try to protect your intellectual property and artistic integrity, when you can just grab the money instead? Turning off the monetization faucet for these channels might get the studios to finally enforce their own copyright, now that the money well is gone. YouTube continues to suffer from an absolute flood of AI slop from every direction. AI-generated video, narration, and even scripts are becoming a larger presence on the platform as a whole, particularly in YouTube Shorts, mirroring pretty much every social network on the web. This extremely basic enforcement of YouTube’s policies aside, the platform doesn’t seem all that interested in stemming the tide…and perhaps that has something to do with parent company Google selling its own generative AI products, and integrating them into YouTube itself. Read...

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Summer is for traveling the world, hiking the trails, laying out at the beach, and enjoying concerts out in the open. The only thing that can ruin the day when the sun is shining is your phone’s low battery warning. Thankfully, the Baseus Picogo power bank is an easy fix for this problem, no matter where you are going. The Baseus Picogo MagSafe power banks are not only going to save you in a pinch, but they’re also going to serve as gorgeous accessories. With a slim build and a beautiful design, these power banks have an aluminum alloy cover. That not only makes them sturdy enough to survive life in your bag, but it also makes it easy to avoid overheating during charges because heat dissipates more easily. Meanwhile, the soft-touch silicone cover is scratch- and wear-resistant, and reveals no unsightly fingerprints. Plus, the smooth casing has rounded edges, which will make holding it and your phone while you’re actively using the device that much nicer, since it won’t be digging into your palm and fingers. There are two versions of the Baseus Picogo MagSafe power bank you can pick from, depending on your needs. One has a 5,000mAh capacity, while the other tops out at 10,000mAh. Naturally, it’s not just the capacity that varies, but also the size of the power bank. Both measure the same 3.93 inches in height and 2.62 inches in length, but the thickness and weight vary–a necessary trade-off with the additional capacity and faster charging technology in the larger model. The 5,000mAh Picogo is only 0.3 inches thick and weighs 4.6oz, while the 10,000mAh version is 0.5 inches thick and weighs 7.8oz. Neither is heavy enough to be of concern. These versatile power banks are extremely useful when on the go as they provide wireless charging as well as wired charging via a USB-C port. They even come with a short braided type-C cable in the package so you don’t need to buy an extra one. The 5,000mAh Picogo delivers a maximum of 7.5W wireless charging and 20W wired charging via the type-C port. The 10,000mAh Picogo is an upgraded model with faster charging speeds, reaching up to 15W wireless charging and 27W wired charging. While it does depend on the battery capacity of the device you wish to charge, the 5,000mAh Picogo should offer a full charge of your phone, while the 10,000mAh version should support about two full recharges. Whichever model you want, you should know the Baseus Picogo power banks are on sale right now over at Amazon. The 5,000mAh Baseus Picogo power bank is now available with a 55% discount, which means you can get one of these tiny and gorgeous devices for $26.99. The 10,000mAh Baseus Picogo is also on sale at $39.99, a great value considering how useful these power banks can be. The Baseus Picogo 5,000mAh is $26.99Buy now at Amazon The Baseus Picogo 10,000mAh is $39.99Buy now at Amazon Read...