John Routledge

Founder and owner of Technoshia.com - I'm an avid tech junkie, a lover of new gadgets and home automation. You will often find me reading, writing, and learning about new technologies. I've been featured in many leading technology magazines where I've written about my favorite topics.
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Amazon’s Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month

Amazon’s Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month

Amazon's next-gen "Remarkable" Alexa assistant will be powered by Anthropic's Claude AI, cost $5-10 per month and arrive in October ahead of the holidays, five sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.The company originally planned to use in-house software for the new chat assistant, but it reportedly struggled with latency issues, taking up to six or seven seconds to…
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Hyundai is planning to build its wild N Vision 74 concept EV

Hyundai is planning to build its wild N Vision 74 concept EV

A couple of years ago Hyundai introduced a wild EV supercar concept called the N Vision 74 designed by the legendary Giorgetto Giugiario. Now, it looks like that vehicle will go into production in some form, according to several slides in the company's investor day presentation.In a slideshow released with the presentation, Hyundai showed off its full EV lineup including…
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The latest Tamagotchi is made with real eggs

The latest Tamagotchi is made with real eggs

Bandai has launched a new Tamagotchi model, and it's actually made with real recycled egg shells. The Original Tamagotchi Celebration digital pet is even colored like a tan/brown egg, with green and white designs along with pink accents and buttons. Tamagotchi comes from the Japanese words for egg (tamago) and watch (uotchi) — and the toy is unmistakably egg-shaped —…
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ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, according to OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly audience of 100 million the company announced last November. A representative from the company told Engadget that API usage has also doubled since the July release of GPT-4o mini.User numbers aren't the only big growth OpenAI has seen over the past year.…
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The world’s largest TV and movie piracy streaming ring is dead

The world’s largest TV and movie piracy streaming ring is dead

The highly illegal but very popular media streaming site Fmovies and an affiliated network of pirated movie and TV show websites have been shut down. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition of movie studios and entertainment companies including Disney, NBCUniversal and MGM, announced the dismantling of the illegal streaming site, several of its other websites including…
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These robots move through the magic of mushrooms

These robots move through the magic of mushrooms

Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the underground fungal network that can sprout mushrooms as its above-ground fruit, can sense light and chemical reactions and communicate through electrical signals. This makes it a novel component in hybrid robotics that could someday detect crop conditions otherwise invisible to humans.The Cornell researchers…
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