Voice shopping with Walmart and Google is officially here. The world’s largest retailer in August said it would start offering a chunk of its inventories for sale on the Google Express shopping site and app, as well as on the Google Home smart speaker through voice shopping. Timed to Google’s hardware launch event Wednesday, Walmart …
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Google on Wednesday unveiled a new premium Chromebook called the Pixelbook. The keyboard of the $1,000 convertible laptop and tablet has one key with a bunch of dots on it. It’s a dedicated key for accessing the Google Assistant digital helper. (The dots are the Assistant logo.) Right now it’s just on the Pixelbook, but that Assistant button could start …
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If you can’t wait to get Google Lens, you’ll need to pay up for a new Google phone. The search giant said the image-recognition technology will preview on its Pixel phones first, including its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, which were revealed at a hardware launch event Wednesday. The feature will be built into Google Photos and Google …
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Wednesday an event in San Francisco, Google announced its newest phones: the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. The announcement comes after an accidental leak revealing the phones last month. The new Pixel phones are nearly identical in every way aside from the 2 XL being bigger with a larger battery and a higher price. The Pixel 2 XL comes …
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Sonos has a new voice-controlled speaker, too, and it plays nice with Amazon, Google and Apple. Billed as a music-first speaker, the Sonos One ($199, £199) looks a lot like the company’s Play:1 (also $199), but has an array of six built-in microphones to allow it to respond to voice commands. Sonos representatives told CNET that though the two speakers resemble each …
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Google showed off a slew of new devices at a hardware launch event Wednesday, with its Pixel 2 phone as the headliner. We discuss the new phone, as well as the Google Home Mini and Home Max smart speakers, Pixelbook laptop and a few other gadgets presented. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Their owners prefer iPhones? Ry Crist/CNET What does your choice of smart speaker say about you? Other than you have little regard for your own privacy, that is. If you choose a Google Home speaker, does that mean you drift Android-ward? And what …
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Google’s Pixelbook will work with a $99 stylus designed for the laptop’s touchscreen. At Google’s event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the company announced a new Chromebook: a $999 convertible laptop. The Pixelbook is marketed as a high-end convertible laptop, meaning it’s both a laptop and a tablet, and is expected to run on Chrome OS. Now playing: Watch this: …
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By some estimates, there are as many as 7,000 languages on the planet and many of us just speak one of them. That’s led to a cottage industry of Hollywood dream-technology like the babel fish from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” or the always-there computers on “Star Trek.” In the real world, we’ve fallen a bit short of that promise. …
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Google showed off a whole bunch of new tech on Wednesday in San Francisco, and the great news for Brits is that it will mostly all be available for preorder in the UK immediately. First up is the Pixel 2, the successor to 2016’s sell-out Pixel phone. The smaller version of the phone, with the 5-inch screen, will cost £629 …
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