Sonos will roll out its very own voice control assistant on June 1st in the United States. ace The Verge reported earlier this month, Sonos Voice Control will be added to all of the company’s voice-enabled smart speakers through an upcoming software update. Once it arrives, owners of those devices will be able to start … Read more
A neat and new-ish service from Google called Fast Pair is designed to speed up the process of connecting smart home devices to your phone and to each other. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to discover nearby devices without using significant phone battery. In theory everything just pops up on your screen – if … Read more
My first was white, boxy, in a rubbery blue case. My second, silver. My third, pink – and that was a shuffle, barely the size of my thumb, so it’s lost somewhere in the house. If my child finds it, even though he has his own old and cracked Touch model, I’m not sure he’ll … Read more
I went into Elden ring a bumbling yet earnest rookie. I cleared out Stormveil Castle after much death and despair; so I set out to adventure, and shortly found myself atop a tower, next to a chest. Someone who had come here before me had helpfully left a message: treasure ahead! I opened the chest, … Read more
DJI has just introduced a new drone — its most capable ever to squeak under the 250 gram limit that keeps operators free from a whole host of headaches and restrictions for flight (note that local laws and rules still do apply — being small doesn’t mean you can do anything you want). the DJI … Read more
Just when you thought Google was out of the tablet game, the company is back in. At its latest I/O developer conferenceGoogle teased a new Pixel Tablet arriving in 2023, featuring Google’s own tensor chip. Google’s history with tablets has been very touch-and-go. Google’s last tablet, the Pixel Slate in 2018, tried to be a … Read more
For Google, a company that built its reputation on organizing the world’s information, the latest sales pitch to users is that it will try to do more with less of it. At its I/O 2022 developer conference on May 11th, the tech giant announced a range of privacy measures that it says will help users … Read more
By Patrick Chomet, EVP and Head of Customer Experience Office at Mobile eXperience Business, Samsung Electronics Just one year ago at Google I/O, I had the privilege to be a part of the announcement of new unified platform of Wear OS, bringing the best of Google together with Samsung Electronics’ wearable software and hardware expertise. … Read more
May 11 (Reuters) – The science fiction is harder to see in Google’s second try at glasses with a built-in computer. A decade after the debut of Google Glass, a nubby, sci-fi-looking pair of specs that filmed what wearers saw but raised concerns about privacy and received low marks for design, the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) … Read more
Google’s 2022 I/O Conference is finally here. From virtual maps that come to life to a new way to communicate with your home security system, there’s a lot of unexpected surprises from the keynote to unpack. Here are some of the highlights. Stare Your Google Nest Down Till It Does Stuff For You One of … Read more
