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It’s been more than two years since Nest entered a new product category, but the smart home company is now coming off the sidelines. On Wednesday, Nest, which is owned by Google‘s parent Alphabet, showed off two new devices during a press event in San Francisco. The first is an internet-connected doorbell called Nest Hello, …

Google has reached an agreement with HTC, but it isn’t the much-rumored deal to buy the handset maker. Instead, the tech giant is paying the struggling Taiwanese phone maker $1.1 billion in cash to hire certain HTC employees, many of whom are already working with Google on the Pixel line of phones. Google will also license HTC intellectual property. The …

These days, there is no shortage of well-made, midrange phones that are affordable. (Here are our favorite cheap phones, to name a few.)  But with Google‘s inclusion of the recently released Motorola Moto X4 into its Android One and Project Fi endeavors, there’s one more compelling bargain phone to consider. Priced at $399, the Moto X4 will be the first …

The iPhone 8 is an augmented reality phone. But guess what? The iPhone in your pocket might very well be, too. Before the new iPhones were announced, I told some coworkers that I thought ARKit and its apps — which promise to place virtual things in our real world — would be a bigger story than the new iPhones. Most …

iOS 11 adds a bevy of new features and interface tweaks to your iPhone (and even more changes for your iPad). After opening your new iPhone or upgrading your current iPhone, here are the settings to check or change straight away. Do Not Disturb While Driving Given the frightening number of drivers I see each and every day with their eyes …

Come Oct. 4, Google’s Pixel 2 XL phone could debut with a starting price of $850 and come in a black and white color combo, according to a new rumor from Droid Life. The phone is rumored to come in all-black as well. A $850 price tag — which converts to £630 or AU$1,060 — would pay for a version with 64GB of storage. …

The power of dance is such that it can convey an entire culture. In 1952, Amalia Hernandez founded the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, a unique dance company whose goal was to illustrate the diversity of Mexico. Hernandez, who would have been 100 on Tuesday, created a dance style that stemmed from her work as a choreographer at the National Institute of …

The Amazon devices team used to make devices. Now, they make different shaped houses for Alexa. The e-retailing giant on Tuesday unveiled a new Fire HD 10, Amazon’s first tablet to include a hands-free mode for accessing Alexa, the company’s voice assistant. To entice shoppers into buying the new tablet, Amazon also added a faster processor, increased the battery life …

Streaming device maker Roku could have an Amazon Echo-type smart speaker in the works, a Variety report published Monday suggests. Meanwhile, Los Gatos, California-based Roku is looking to raise as much as $220 million when it goes public next month, according to an SEC filing Monday. Roku declined to confirm or comment on the Variety report, which is based on …

Google celebrated the life of Samuel Johnson on Monday with an animated Doodle defining the word “lexicographer”. Monday would have marked Johnson’s 308th birthday. He was well known as a lexicographer himself, as well as a poet, essayist, critic and biographer. It took him nine years of work to publish his “A Dictionary of the English Language” in 1755, and …