Meta Ray-Bans Now Speak Your Language, Roku’s New Streaming Sticks, and Kia EVs Get Supercharged—Your Gear News of the Week

I’ve experienced Meta’s translation with substance earlier and recovered it capable for speechmaking my children’s books successful Spanish; Meta AI adjacent offered, unprompted, immoderate comic insights. When traveling, my coworker Kate Knibbs discovered that unrecorded translation is simply a small awkward erstwhile it’s constricted to the written word. Live translation with different speakers should marque it overmuch much useful.

The institution besides announced caller framework styles and colors, similar the Skyler cat-eye benignant successful chalky gray, arsenic good arsenic a fewer much bundle features. You’ll present beryllium capable to nonstop and person messages from Instagram connected your glasses, inquire Meta AI to play euphony from an expanded database of euphony apps (as agelong arsenic you inquire successful English), oregon inquire Meta AI to place songs successful passing. Meta is besides expanding entree to Meta AI successful different countries successful the European Union, arsenic good arsenic launching the glasses themselves successful Mexico, India, and the United Arab Emirates. —Adrienne So

Kia EVs Can Now Use Tesla’s Superchargers

Kia EVs are yet portion of the Tesla Supercharger club, the institution has confirmed, and its cars tin present entree much than 21,500 of Tesla’s DC accelerated chargers successful North America.

The move, which was primitively approved successful January, expands Kia’s charging web by much than 80 percent and sees the automaker joining the likes of Ford, Rivian, Volvo, and Mercedes-Benz successful tapping into Tesla’s resources.

As portion of the move, the institution announced that its refreshed 2025 EV6 and the 2026 EV9 volition travel with Tesla-compatible NACS connectors, but existing Kia EV owners with a CCS1 charging larboard tin get adapters from their dealer. —Verity Burns

Cuisinart’s First-Ever Espresso Bar “Collection”

Anyone for coffee? This week, Cuisinart announced what it’s touting arsenic its precise archetypal espresso barroom collection—a Mama, Papa, and Baby Bear of 3 bottomless portafilter machines. The scope starts with a vanishingly slim profile, 15-bar EM-160 Espresso Bar Slim retailing astatine $230, and tops retired with a $600 “Grind and Brew” EM-640 exemplary with 16 espresso grind settings. The mid-sized $300 machine, EM-320, doesn’t person a grinder but adds 5 bars of unit compared to the Slim.

This is hardly Cuisinart’s archetypal foray into espresso, but it does magnitude to a spot of a reboot for the American brand. Each instrumentality successful the Espresso Bar postulation comes equipped with a frothing wand, a 52-millimeter stainless alloy bottomless portafilter, and an enactment connected cold-extracted espresso for iced lattes oregon martini lovers. The devices connection a reasonably gangly profile: Cuisinart advertises that each volition let country for a 20-ounce question mug. Likely the astir distinctive of the 3 machines, the lowest-priced “Slim” instrumentality is little than 7 inches wide.

Tuesday was the authoritative motorboat for the caller line, but retailers similar Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel softly added the Cuisinart appliances to their websites successful mid-April—an progressively communal strategy from manufacturers who privation beforehand reviews connected retailer websites by the clip the company’s PR officially declares liftoff. —Matthew Korfhage

Fellow Drops Its First Espresso Machine

The java quality doesn't halt there. With the fanfare and tightly controlled pre-hype usually reserved for iPhone launches, San Francisco java instrumentality shaper Fellow announced its archetypal espresso machine. The retro-futuristic-looking Espresso Series 1 comes successful black, cherry red, oregon malted chocolate. It offers adaptive unit astatine the java puck, guided brewing, and a steam wand with a thermostat that stops frothing astatine the designated temp.