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Pixel 11’s New AI Looks Promising, But Everyday Reliability Is Still the Real Test

GOOGLE PIXEL 11 AI

Google has now revealed Pixel 11 and new tools including Rambler and a sign-to-text feature for American Sign Language. The more important question, however, is not whether these features look impressive onstage. It is whether they make a busy day easier without adding friction or uncertainty. Price: From $899 Where to Buy: Amazon That is […]

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Friend AI Pendant Gets a Voice, and the Price Jumps to $249

Friend AI Pendant Specs

An AI necklace that couldn’t talk has spent two years defining itself through controversy instead of conversation. This week that changes. Friend AI Pendant, the always-listening AI pendant from founder Avi Schiffmann, now ships with a built-in speaker and a spoken personality, and the price has nearly doubled to match. Schiffmann announced the update, calling

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Google Assistant Is Being Retired on Your Speakers, and Gemini for Home Is Taking Over

GOOGLE HOME

Google Assistant’s been the voice in your kitchen, living room, and kid’s bedroom for almost a decade. That run is ending. Gemini for Home is the replacement, and it’s rolling out in early access. Google says it’ll reach every speaker, display, camera, and doorbell the company has shipped since 2016. This isn’t a setting you

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Rokid Just Made the Case for Ditching Your Second Monitor

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You already know the pitch. AR glasses that replace your monitor, your TV, your second screen. Every company in consumer tech has a version of it right now, and most of them require you to squint past the compromises to find the product underneath. The display is dim in anything brighter than a dark room.

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Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra in 2026: cognitive AI that makes it worth $1,999

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Camera navigation in pool robots is no longer new. What is new is a robot that uses two front-mounted cameras for stereo depth perception, recognizes more than twenty debris types in real time, and generates weekly cleaning schedules without manual programming. The Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra does all three. Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra: $1999.99 $2299.99

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Apple Turned to Google to Fix Siri: 8 Things to Know From WWDC 2026

Apple Turned to Google to Fix Siri- 8 Things to Know From WWDC 2026

If you were waiting for Apple to ship the Siri upgrade it promised in 2024, WWDC 2026 delivered the reset. During the June 8 keynote, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuild of its assistant running on next-generation Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models. The company also announced iOS 27,

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WWDC 2026: Apple bets the house on Google to fix Siri and save your old iPhone

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Tim Cook’s WWDC 2026 keynote was not about one headline feature. It was about Apple admitting what it could not build alone, while quietly doing something remarkable for anyone who keeps their hardware longer than two years. After two years of promising an AI leap that never fully arrived, Apple changed strategy: it called in

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ASUS Computex 2026 brings AI to every form factor in its lineup

ASUS ProArt P16 and P14 with NVIDIA RTX Spark

ASUS used its Computex 2026 keynote to show a full ecosystem rather than a single flagship. Every category received an AI upgrade, from creator laptops down to a new tablet and a desktop tower that could pass for furniture. It was a broad presentation. Headlining the lineup are the ProArt P16 and P14, which become

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Four Days Inside Xpeng: The Self-Driving Car That Fooled a 10-Year Skeptic

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I just spent four days inside Xpeng’s world leading up to the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, and I’m still trying to process what I saw. Cars threading through Beijing chaos like a taxi driver who’s been on the job for thirty years. Humanoid robots in active development. A flying car with 7,000 orders on the

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From Wearables to Power Stations: 10 Best Gadgets From May 2026

10 Must-Know Tech from May 2026

May 2026 was the kind of month where the gadget world stopped asking “what’s next?” and just started shipping it. The Fitbit Air went screenless at $99. The Anker SOLIX S2000 promised 35 hours of fridge backup. Google unveiled the Googlebook as Chromebook’s next chapter. Modular phones made a serious comeback, AI moved off your

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Microsoft’s Latest AI Gadget Isn’t a PC, It’s a Badge You Wear

Microsoft Wearable AI Badge

Microsoft has been quietly experimenting with what an AI assistant looks like when it stops living inside a laptop, and the latest answer is a wearable you clip to your shirt. At its annual developer conference, the company pulled the curtain back on two early hardware concepts built around its AI agents. One is a

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Acer Just Undercut Xreal and Ray-Ban Meta With Two New Smart Glasses

Acer AR Vision GR0

Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and

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AirPods With Cameras? Researchers Just Built Them Into Sony Earbuds

Vuebuds Tiny cameras on wireless earbuds

The quietest, weirdest preview of where wearable AI is heading didn’t come from Apple, Meta, or any of the usual hardware giants. It came out of a lab at the University of Washington, where a team of researchers cracked open a pair of Sony WF-1000XM3 earbuds and did something equal parts brilliant and cursed: shoved

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NVIDIA RTX Spark is the AI PC that finishes your work instead of describing it

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For most of computing history, the deal with a personal computer stayed the same. You learned where the buttons lived, you clicked them in the right order, and the machine waited for your next move. Faster chips and brighter screens changed how quickly that dance happened, never the dance itself. The computer sat still until

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6 Emotional AI Companion Robots Designed to Read You Back

6 Emotional AI Companion Robots Designed to Read You Back

An emotional AI companion robot is a hardware device built around presence and emotional interaction rather than productivity, using sensors and conversational AI to read tone, touch, and context for a specific kind of user. Every few months a new robot promises to read your face, remember your bad day, and meet you where you

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ECOVACS LilMilo Is a Robot Puppy That Reads Your Feelings

ECOVACS LilMilo is an emotional AI companion robot

ECOVACS spent more than two decades teaching machines to clean floors, scrub windows, mow lawns, and skim pools. Today the company decided it’s done with utility. LilMilo, ECOVACS’ first emotional AI companion robot, went on sale in the US for $599, and it’s the brand’s clearest signal yet that the next robotics category isn’t about

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