Eliana Willis

Home Depot/ZDNETA smart door sounds like a sight to behold, and it is. Just last year, Home Depot made headlines for featuring the Masonite M-PWR, a $5,000 smart door with lights, sensors, a smart lock, and a smart doorbell built-in. The M-PWR was discontinued less than a year later, but Home Depot just announced an alternative is hitting store shelves next week, and it’s cheaper than you might expect. The new Feather Rivers smart glass door is powered by Hubspace, Home Depot’s smart home automation system that works with over 150 affordable smart home devices at the store. The door is available in full lite for $999, half lite at $899, and craftsman style at $799 — a far cry from $5,000.Also: I found the best AirTags for Android users, and they’re very accurateThe glass insert is the fiberglass door’s smartest feature. It can change from an opaque finish to clear glass with the tap of a button on the door or your phone’s Hubspace app. This approach is perfect for a door that lets in light during the day but that you’d prefer to have shaded at night for privacy. More

Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNETMark Zuckerberg took the stage at Meta Connect 2024 and came out strong in the categories of VR/AR and AI. There’s a lot of mixing of these technologies, particularly in the Meta glasses line discussed elsewhere on ZDNET. Also: Everything announced at Meta Connect 2024: $299 Quest 3S, Orion AR glasses, and moreIn this article, though, we’ll dig into several powerful and impressive announcements related to the company’s AI efforts. More

Cerise HUA/Getty Images Back in my early days of Linux, the terminal was a necessity. Now, the GUIs are so advanced, user-friendly, and powerful, that you could go your entire Linux career and never touch a terminal window. Also: Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next ‘King of Linux’ But when you […] More

natatravel/Getty Images When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 in 2021, its new, stringent hardware compatibility test included checking for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) — specifically, one that meets the TPM 2.0 standard. Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 So, what is a TPM, and why does […] More

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Organizations believe their sustainability initiatives would have been lacking without a regulatory push and the use of climate technology.  According to a report released by Capgemini Research Institute, some 65% said their company would not have launched several environmental sustainability initiatives if not for regulation. Another 75% pointed to sustainability regulation as […] More

Meta The headline for Meta’s new fully functioning prototype, Orion (pronounced O-Ryan), basically writes itself.  They’re “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during today’s Meta Connect event. That’s a bold claim but not one that many will quickly discredit. After all, Meta is coming into Connect hot, […] More

Meta has yet to publish a specs sheet for the Quest 3S, so we don’t know all the hardware’s finer details yet. That said, we do know it’ll be powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, just like the previous model. This should enable “fast load times, smooth performance, and high-definition graphics.”Inside the headset is a pair of Fresnel lenses with “3 position interaxial adjustment distances (IAD)”. Basically, this means the lenses give you crystal-clear image quality. Each half will output a resolution of 1,832 x 1,920 pixels per eye. The Meta Quest 2 has similar tech.Also: How to get started with Meta AI in Facebook, Instagram, and moreThe Quest 3S will have a 4,324mAh battery with a battery life of about 2.5 hours. The field of view is said to be 96 degrees horizontal and 90 degrees vertical. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that the Quest 3S will support spatial audio. At the time of this writing, we couldn’t find any additional information on the headset’s audio system. More