Google’s new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality. Good things take time, but not all things that take time are good. The jury is still out on the Google Home Speaker, but it certainly took a while to arrive. After announcing its new speaker last August,…
Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don’t expect monumental changes. Android 17 has been in testing since early this year, with the final beta hitting devices just a couple of weeks ago. Insofar as a mature operating system like Android still has big days, this…
Commodore’s Callback 8020 is a phone “where the customer is not the product.” The next gadget to bear the storied Commodore branding will be a flip phone. The name behind the bestselling desktop PC in history came back about a year ago. Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson, best known for…
Fox plans to take over Roku’s streaming hardware, OS, and FAST services. Fox Corporation has agreed to buy Roku Inc. for $160 per share, an approximate enterprise value of $22 billion, the firms announced today. The acquisition would unite Fox’s broadcast channels, including Fox, Fox News, Fox Business, and…
Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down. The release of macOS 27 later this fall won’t quite close the book on the Intel Mac. The last handful of models that could run macOS 26 Tahoe will be eligible for security and…
This World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle. At the 2026 World Cup, the refs on the field and the officials on the sidelines will be able to use an abundance of tech to help call penalties, spot offside violations,…
The old app “still needs to be retired,” AcuRite tells us. Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite previously set for May 30, “has raised serious questions and concerns among…
AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements. Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive…
The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge. I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored. They would…
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike. A US Army helicopter gunship was apparently struck by an Iranian Shahed drone before going down near the Strait of Hormuz—but it’s unclear whether the one-way attack drone was deliberately aimed or achieved more of a…
