Hardware

Today's Google Pixel Event, Made By Google, gave the search and consumer tech giant a chance to show off what it's been working on. There were so many updates on Pixel 8, Pixel Watch 2 and other goodies. We summed up the most important parts from the keynote below. Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro P

I got to spend some time with the new Google Pixel 8 Pro ahead of its launch, and the new premium flagship is impressive, though very similar to last year’s model. The back glass is matte in a first for the Pixel Pro lineup, but the phone otherwise resembles its predecessor on the outside alm

Google made its Pixel 8 smartphone lineup official today, including the Pixel 8 Pro. This year, the Pro gets a number of camera upgrades, both in terms of hardware and software, that puts a little more distance between it and the non-Pro version. The updates will be welcome changes for anyone looki

For a long time, if you wanted something like the Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 but didn’t want to spend quite so much money, you were pretty much out of luck. The Xencelabs Pen 24, released earlier this year, is $300 less than the Cintiq Pro 24 and includes a lot of add-ons that Wacom charges for, inc

Whenever I reviewed an Angry Miao keyboard in the past, I always wondered what the company would be able to do if it brought its engineering and design chops to a more affordable segment. The typical Angry Miao keyboard, after all, is excellent but overdesigned to the extreme — with a price t

One can't accuse Bonsai Robotics of lacking focus. The Bay Area-based firm is starting with trees — specifically nut trees. Like most labor-intensive sectors these days, farms have suffered from a profound lack of available workers, so the startup began striking deals with OEMs to outfit

Google this morning launched a new category of Chromebooks called Chromebooks Plus. The laptops are productivity-focused devices with minimum spec requirements, including a full HD screen, 1080p camera and higher processing power than entry-level devices. The initial set of Chromebook Plus devices

If you're lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for me. The two go back several decades, to the salad days of MIT's Leg Lab. [A version of this story originally appeared in technewss’s robotics n

Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it's worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. In the intervening half-decade, the firm h

It's been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We've already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and now it's time for Google to get in on the action. After all, being fashionably late to consumer electronics is kind

Tablo has always been a niche product, Grant Hall, founder and CEO of parent company Nuvyyo, admitted to technewss. However, as more cord-cutters become frustrated with streaming services raising their prices, OTA (over-the-air) DVRs and TV antennas are making a comeback. The Consumer Technology A

Fitbit products haven't exactly been a focus for Google since the acquisition closed at the beginning of 2021. It's been clear from the start that the software giant's interest in the wearable pioneer came down to its own proprietary smartwatch ambitions. We saw that play out with last

Meta’s new Quest 3 mixed-reality headset will allow users to personalize their physical spaces with “augments” — a series of objects and widgets that are digitally plastered to their real-world environment. “Next year, you’ll be able to customize your space with

Headspace is coming to Meta’s Quest 3 VR headset “soon” in partnership with Meta and Nexus Studios, Meta's Head of Developer Relations Melissa Brown announced at Meta Connect today. The Headspace experience is a “virtual playground for your mind” and a place to han