Google has already confirmed the date: August 12, an event in New York teasing “the next generation of Pixel.” Everything else about the Pixel 11 series, from pricing to colors to the chip inside, is still coming from leakers, retailer listings, and the occasional Amazon slip-up. This year’s leak cycle has been unusually detailed, covering […]
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From the Pixel 10 to the Pixel Buds Pro 2, Google’s full Made by Google ecosystem is on sale together for the first time since launch. The Pixel 10 lineup, the new wired Nest Doorbell, the refreshed Pixel Watch, Fitbit’s kid-friendly Ace LTE, and Google’s audio flagship are all sitting at Prime Day 2026 prices
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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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Google just gave its smart speaker lineup the reset it’s needed for years. After a six-year gap, the new Google Home Speaker arrives June 25 with Gemini built in, a fresh 360-degree design, and a $99.99 price that undercuts much of the competition. It’s the clearest sign yet that Google wants its hardware to lead
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Google’s Fitbit Air is finally arriving on doorsteps this week, and at $99.99 for the device itself, the screenless tracker is shaping up as the most direct shot at Whoop the fitness market has seen in years. Buyers in the UK started reporting deliveries around June 8, and the early U.S. shipping waves are tracking
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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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If you’ve been waiting for a new Google smart speaker, congratulations: you have outlasted a pandemic, four generations of AirPods, and a complete reinvention of Google’s AI strategy. The last time Google launched a standalone smart speaker, the Nest Audio in September 2020, Gemini didn’t exist yet, and AI assistants were still mostly novelties. Nearly
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The Pixel 11 is not expected until August, but Google may have accidentally previewed one of its standout features during the I/O 2026 keynote. A brief on-stage moment appeared to show Pixel Glow, two weeks after a massive leak outlined Tensor G6, new Samsung OLED panels, and that same RGB strip. Here is what observers
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If you’ve been eyeing a new Chromebook this summer, hold off. Google is moving on from the Chromebook brand at the premium tier. The company unveiled Googlebook on May 12 at The Android Show: I/O Edition, a new line of Android-powered, Gemini-first laptops launching this fall with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Pricing and
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Google’s Pixel Watch 4 is sitting at its lowest street price since launch, with this year’s Memorial Day smartwatch deals taking up to $104 off select LTE configurations at Amazon and roughly $50 off the Wi-Fi models. Both sizes are seeing record-low pricing at major retailers, making this one of the most compelling Memorial Day
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For nearly three years, Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have had the AI eyewear category almost entirely to themselves. That changed at Google I/O 2026, where Warby Parker and Google walked on stage together and pulled the cover off Intelligent Eyewear, a new line of AI-powered frames running on Gemini and Android XR, with audio-first models
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The smart glasses category is having its third loud year in a row, and the shape of the products on the way says more about strategy than any keynote slide. Meta keeps shipping frames that look like regular Ray-Bans. Google and Samsung partnered with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster before partnering on hardware. The Ray-Ban
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Google I/O 2026 was an AI keynote with a hardware coda. The keynote ran almost entirely on Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, a Search rebuild, and agentic tools, then Google saved the last segment for the hardware story it has been building toward for two years: smart glasses. The hardware list out of Shoreline this week
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An early-May Telegram leak spilled most of Google’s 2026 Pixel playbook in one shot: Tensor G6 on a 2nm process, new Samsung OLED panels on the Pro tier, smaller batteries across the board, fresh camera sensors on the Pro models, and an ambient lighting feature called Pixel Glow. With Google’s August event still about three
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We’ve spent thirteen years reviewing Chromebooks as the budget machine you buy when $300 is the hard ceiling. Google’s new Googlebook, announced today at the Android Show: I/O Edition, is not that machine. It’s a premium laptop built on part of the Android tech stack and ChromeOS, with Gemini wired into the OS, a cursor
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If you’ve ever sent a sensitive text across the iPhone-Android divide and felt a prick of doubt about who else might be reading, that’s just gotten a real answer. Starting yesterday, messages between an iPhone and an Android phone can finally be locked down end-to-end, with no extra app and no setting to dig up.
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Smart glasses spent years being a punchline. Google Glass became shorthand for technology that arrived before anyone wanted it, and a decade of follow-up attempts mostly reinforced the impression. The pattern was familiar: bold demo, awkward hardware, no second act. That pattern broke in the last 18 months. The category is working now, and not
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April moved fast. Knives took over the conversation, smart glasses finally felt like a real product category instead of a science-fair pitch, and a few quiet roundups built up enough momentum to crack the top seven on their own merit. It was the kind of month where the loudest launches didn’t automatically win the spotlight,
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Smart glasses just got interesting again. Google’s been openly building its answer to Meta’s Ray-Ban dominance, and we’re staring down the first real face-off in this category. Meta’s had a head start: Ray-Ban Stories evolved into the Ray-Ban Meta line, now in its second generation, and that combo of fashion credibility plus useful AI has
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The wait for a mainstream pair of AI glasses isn’t open-ended anymore. Google and Warby Parker are publicly aiming for a 2026 launch, and the picture of what they’re actually building has filled in a lot since the partnership was first announced. If existing smart eyewear has felt like an accessory built around a tech
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