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Ring’s video history search is super handy for tracking my cat

Ring’s new search feature helped me find my cat

At launch, Ring says it can search for queries related to animals, vehicles, packages, and people, which can be qualified by location, time, and weather — for example, “raccoons in the backyard last night.” It can also identify various actions, including jumping, running, playing, and riding. While the new search feature won’t send you real-time alerts for any of those activities, since it can only see in the past, it will at least make it possible to easily find those things in your recorded footage. Ring isn’t the first consumer security camera company to announce an AI-powered video search feature, but it is the first to offer it to all its users publicly.

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