Google on Tuesday unveiled a spate of highly anticipated new devices, including its flagship Pixel 4 phone, Pixel Buds to compete with Apple’s Airpods, and a new version of the Google Home Mini speaker, renamed the Nest Mini. But if you really want to understand Google’s goals when it comes to consumer hardware, one of …
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Yet another image of the Google Pixelbook Go has leaked, according to a report Monday, but this one is purportedly an official product picture. One of several leaked photos of the upcoming Nest Mini included the Pixelbook Go, 9to5Google reported. This image is the first of the product to show Google’s “G” logo in the top left corner of the …
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Even though Apple unveiled a brand-new iPad in September, we’re hearing rumors that the company may introduce more new tablets in the coming months. And, given that Apple has already brought out new versions of the iPad, iPad Air and iPad Mini in 2019, it’s likely that an update to the iPad Pro — last refreshed in October 2018 — …
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Since 2016, the human pilots of the Drone Racing League have competed to see who could whip a quadcopter around pylons and through hoops the fastest. On Tuesday, they’ll get a new challenge: the fully autonomous RacerAI, a drone programmed to fly itself. Nine teams of programmers from around the world have have been coding for months to come up …
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Google Assistant is getting smarter and more useful around the house. In a new update Tuesday, Google announced that its digital assistant can now move music between Home and Nest smart speakers. It can also move YouTube videos between Chromecast and Nest smart displays. The new feature means you can start playing music in your bedroom on a Google Home Mini …
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With Tuesday’s release of Apple’s iPadOS — a dedicated operating system for the iPad, offering the tablets a suite of new features — Apple not only helps position the iPad as a laptop competitor, but ups the ante on data security during a time of escalating mobile malware threats. The new operating system, first announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers …
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For most students in the US, school started sometime in the past few weeks. But it’s in the first few days and weeks that those missing must-haves come into focus. To that end, we asked Dhara Singh, a graduate student who interned with CNET over the summer, to choose some key gadgets she’d like to have on hand as she …
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Apple and Samsung phones released over the last three years may be producing radio frequency radiation at levels higher than current Federal Communications Commission limits allow, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune. Scientists and consumers have shown increasing concern that radio frequency radiation from our devices may have adverse effects on human health, especially with 5G rolling out …
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If it’s always been your dream to have air conditioning with you wherever you go, Sony might have the solution. The Reon Pocket, from the company’s startup acceleration program, is a small device that fits in a shirt pocket and can keep you cool or warm at the touch of a smartphone app. The device slides into the back of …
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So you scored a fantastic [EVENT NAME REDACTED BECAUSE I REFUSE TO SPEAK IT AGAIN UNTIL 2020] deal on the Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home Mini. Now you need an external speaker to go with it. Because, let’s face it, although those little hockey pucks sound decent for their size, they’re not living up to their full potential. Read …
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