Black Friday may be 28 days away, but with the shopping holiday unofficially lasting the entire month of November, you can already save big on one of our favorite smart home gadgets. Amazon (owner of Blink) has a bundle of eight Blink Outdoor 4 cameras on sale for $380 off. The security cameras typically cost $99, and the bundle typically costs $630. You can buy eight for just $250 today or six for $180.
The Blink Outdoor 4 is just a little over a year old. Compared to its predecessor, the fourth-generation camera has a larger field of view (increased from 110 to 143 degrees), sharper day and night image quality, and improved motion detection. Despite its name, you can also use it indoors.
If you pay for a Blink subscription, you also get person recognition. This lets you set it to receive notifications only when an intruder is in your yard, not a squirrel or the neighborhood cat. The plan costs $3 monthly or $30 annually for a single device.
If you get the higher “Plus” tier, which supports unlimited cameras, you’ll have to pay $10 monthly or $100 for a year. You can try the plan for 30 days before paying. But remember, the subscription is optional and is only needed for person detection and storing recorded video in the cloud.
The Blink Outdoor 4 supports 1080p live view, infrared night vision, and two-way audio. If you have Alexa devices in your home, you can also control it with your voice. Blink estimates the camera will last up to two years with the included AA lithium batteries.
If eight cameras is more than you need, you can also save on a bundle of six Blink Outdoor 4 cameras. Normally costing $480, the early Black Friday deal sees it discounted by $300, leaving you paying just $180.
While the use of generative AI in games feels almost inevitable, as the medium has always toyed with new ways to make enemies and NPCs smarter and more realistic, watching several NVIDIA ACE demos back to back really made me feel sick to my stomach.
It wasn’t just slightly smarter enemy AI — ACE can craft entire conversations out of thin air, simulate voices and try to give NPCs a sense of personality.
It’s also working locally on your PC, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs. But while all of this might sound good on paper, I hated nearly every second I saw the AI NPCs in action.
I think my inner hatred for NVIDIA’s ACE-powered AI comes down to this: there’s simply nothing engaging about it. No joy, no warmth, no humanity.
Every ACE AI character feels like a developer cutting corners in the worst way possible, as if you can see their contempt for the audience in the form of a boring NPC. I would much rather scroll past some text written on the screen, at least I don’t have to interact with weird robot voices.