Hardware

The economy is a bit better — kind of, maybe, sort of? While things appear to be trending in the right direction, it's going to be a long road. Besides, if you're unable to find work, positive macroeconomic trends are cold comfort. One of the nice things about having a platform like T

Sonos announced today that Sonos customers will have access to spatial audio on Apple Music starting March 28. The company says it’s Apple Music’s first partner to bring spatial audio to the home. Spatial audio delivers a multi-dimensional immersive sound experience and is available on

Apple has a tendency to introduce a new iPhone color in the spring. And this time, it’s yellow. The company is adding the color option to both iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. Last spring, the company launched a new green color (Alpine green for the Pro models) for the iPhone 13 series, and in 2

Another industrial automation firm is bucking VC slowdown, as Plus One Robotics this morning announces a $50 million raise. The Series C brings the San Antonio-based firm's total funding up to $94 million to date (including a $33 million Series B back in 2021). Scale Venture Partners led the ro

The Sonos One wasn't broken, but that doesn't mean the company's is above fixing it. Over two generations and a few variants, the compact speaker has become one of the company's most popular. Really, it's been a big win for a firm whose portfolio can give off a whiff of inaccess

This morning Sonos announced a pair of speakers. The Era 100 is a $249 stereo system that replaces the popular One speaker in the company's lineup. The $449 Era 300, on the other hand, is an entirely new entry, focused on bringing the emerging world of spatial audio to the product line. We had

The reMarkable 2 is a great tablet for reading long documents on, annotating them, taking notes, sketching… but not for full-on writing. At least, it wasn’t until they put out this great keyboard folio that converts this tablet into a pretty compelling minimalist writing station — if

When Microsoft, after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched its now 40-year-old Flight Simulator series in 2020, it reignited interest in a genre that had long been a mainstay of PC gaming. It’s one thing to marvel at the graphics of the new Flight Simulator, though, and another to try to play the

I want to talk about weird tech for a minute. A lot of strange and wonderful pieces of technology have come across our desks over the years. More often that not, they're the purview of the startup. Small companies are more nimble and willing to take risks. That's a big part of the reason th

I've yet to walk the entire floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year (that's the goal for this afternoon), but my sense is the majority of the robots present fit into one of two categories: robot vacuums or greeter robots. With Pepper out of commission, maybe there's a wide

Humanoid robots are one of those ideas that never truly goes out of style — it does, however, tend to ebb and flow across the decades. Whatever you happen to think about the project or the company that built it, Tesla's Optimus prototype has revived the conversation around the form factor

At a session on the future of 6G during Mobile World Congress, expert speakers from companies such as Samsung, the European Space Agency and Telefonica came together to give their views about how 6G will play out. The first thing to note is that it's not arriving anytime soon. The projections a

When you name your company Boston Dynamics, certain geographical constraints are inserted into the operation. While the Spot-maker is, by many accounts, a global brand, it's one that remains deeply tied to Massachusetts, even as it's changed hands between owners in California, Japan and, mo

Google has announced that its highly anticipated fall detection feature is rolling out to all Pixel Watch users today. Fall detection uses motion sensors and on-device machine learning to identify if a user has taken a hard fall and connect them with help if needed. The feature is similar to Apple&