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After many months of speculation about its potential release, design and features, we may have gotten a good look at the rumored Google Pixel Watch. On Monday, Android Central published nine photos of what seems to be Google’s upcoming smartwatch.  While not confirmed until Google officially announces the Pixel Watch, the leaked images line up with previous …

We were pretty sure Google’s first smartwatch would be called the Pixel Watch, and it’s pretty much confirmed now that the tech giant has trademarked “Pixel Watch.”  Google registered the trademark days ago, on April 19, and filed it to cover the smartwatch and accessories like cases, straps, bands and “wearable computers in the nature of smartwatches” just to be …

Garmin’s $150 Vivosmart 5 is deceptively simple. It looks like a run-of-the-mill tracker on the outside but packs many health and fitness features from Garmin’s more expensive watches in a lightweight band. There’s blood oxygen, 24/7 heart-rate monitoring, sleep tracking and the body battery score, a way to determine your energy levels. You can wear it for almost a week …

Surfshark VPN said Tuesday it will soon release updates to its popular virtual private network app, after it was among six popular VPNs dinged by AppEsteem researchers for unsound security design in an April report. Researchers revealed that the Surfshark app obtains an alarming amount of influence over a user’s device security by installing a risky piece of tech known …

HyperX makes some of the comfiest gaming headsets you’ll ever park over your ears. The company’s latest addition to its most comfy line of PC-compatible models (it’s also PS5 compatible) is the Cloud Alpha Wireless. It’s an excellent model that uses the same dual-chamber audio technology as the original Cloud Alpha, which is now five years old.  While much of …

Last year, Bose released its SoundControl Hearing Aids ($850), the first FDA-cleared direct-to-consumer “self-fitting” hearing aids that you can fit and tune yourself without the help from an audiologist. Now it has some company with the arrival of Jabra’s $800 Enhance Plus buds, which come in two colors — gold and dark gray — and according to Jabra, are 40% …

Online subscriptions are usually pretty easy to sign up for. But you may have noticed they’re not always so easy to cancel. And the Byzantine unsubscribe processes I’ve had to go through to get out of services I no longer want are often not just poor customer service or an unwieldy user experience. It’s by design. My wife and I …

During the holidays last year, Amazon had one of my favorite mini Bluetooth speakers, the JBL Clip 4, on sale for $25 off Its list price of $80. It’s not quite discounted that much right now, but it is on sale for $60, or $20 off, which makes it a Bluetooth speaker deal worth highlighting. The previous model, the Clip …

If you’re frequently going to be using your earbuds for running, biking and other kinds of rigorous workouts, you probably don’t want to spend hundreds on a pricey pair that you might end up losing. But you also don’t want to cheap out on a pair that might break on you almost immediately. If you’re after a durable, middle-of-the-road pair …

It’s a time-honored tradition here at CNET to drop new phones on the ground  — on purpose. So when Apple proclaimed that the new 5G-enabled iPhone SE is made with “the toughest glass in a smartphone,” naturally my ears perked up. The Apple iPhone SE is an update to the 2020 version, but most of its changes are on the …