Tag: author_name|Mat Smith
The Morning After: Everything Google told us about the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Google revealed its latest smartphones all of a sudden — and surprisingly quietly. Two new devices appeared on the company’s online store and we have deep dives on both phones and Tensor, a new system-on-chip that’ll power the next-gen of Pixel devices. Google What’s the most exciting part? New colors?…
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The Morning After: IKEA hid an air purifier inside a table
If it’s not lamps that are smart speakers, it's artwork that doubles as a speaker. IKEA now thinks it’s time to play spot the air purifier. It’s introducing a family of smart air purifiers, and the first two Starkvind models are a standalone air purifier and a side table, which…
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The Morning After: You can now upgrade your PS5’s SSD, if you meet all the criteria
Yes, you can finally upgrade your SSD storage on the PS5 — a console that already demands pretty huge game file sizes. It’s a whole lot more complicated than plugging in a USB drive, however. First up, you have to be a PS5 beta user in the US, Canada and…
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Nothing’s Ear 1 wireless earbuds are an ambitious start
How do you stand out as a new tech company when the dominant players have huge budgets, thousands of employees and decades of product R&D? That is Nothing’s challenge, and its first product, a pair of true wireless earbuds, makes a pitch for a simplified kind of tech, designed to…
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The Morning After: An official Xbox doughnut is coming
As part of new restrictions on sexual content, Google is banning what it calls "compensated sexual relationships (i.e. sugar dating)," from its Android app store, starting September 1st, 2021. Google’s wording on its inappropriate content policy isn’t live yet, but on Google Play, even now, there are plenty of sugar-daddy-style…
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The Morning After: iPhone sales are up 50 percent year over year
The curse of buying new tech at the wrong time will get us all. In the last year, I’ve seen fellow Engadget employees buy a Nintendo Switch just before the OLED model broke cover, take the plunge with the iPhone SE just before the iPhone 12 mini was unveiled and…
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