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 …
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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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I wish it weren’t true. But it is. Google’s just-announced Pixel 2 phones don’t have a headphone jack. The 3.5mm connector is missing. It’s not on the top, where Google placed it on last year’s Pixel. And it’s not on the bottom either, where you’ll find the USB-C data/charge port all by its lonesome. The audio jack is simply gone. …
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According to the Pixel 2’s technical specification site, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL will not come with any headphones in the box. Instead, you will find a USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter now. Yes, that means Google also got rid of the headphone jack just as Apple did with the iPhone 7 last year. Now playing: Watch this: …
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Google‘s new Pixel 2 and 2 XL phones don’t have dual rear cameras like other flagship phones: Samsung Galaxy Note 8, LG V30, Essential Phone, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. But, that doesn’t mean its solo rear camera isn’t packing some amazing features. The Pixel 2’s camera uses optical and electronic stabilization along with machine learning to take some …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Does it call to you? Do you have clothes to model? CNET Did you, an iPhone aficionado, look at the Pixel 2 and salivate? Please don’t worry. There’s an ad for that. No sooner had Google released its new Pixel 2 phone than it uploaded …
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