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Gear News of the Week: Always-Recording Smart Glasses, and Google Teases a New Nest Speaker

Gear Roundup

Gear News of the Week: Always-Recording Smart Glasses, and Google Teases a New Nest Speaker

Julian Chokkattu

At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

Shape Shifter

At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

Verity Burns

Automaker Geely Launched Its Own Satellites Into Space, Highlighting China’s Ambitions

Global Update

Automaker Geely Launched Its Own Satellites Into Space, Highlighting China’s Ambitions

Aarian Marshall

A Brompton Reborn: How to Future-Proof a Decades-Old Foldable Bike

Classic Upgrade

A Brompton Reborn: How to Future-Proof a Decades-Old Foldable Bike

Chris Haslam

The PlayStation 5 Is About to Get More Expensive

Price Hike

The PlayStation 5 Is About to Get More Expensive

Megan Farokhmanesh

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

White Coat

The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach

Julian Chokkattu

An Exclusive Look at Reliability Labs, Where Google Stress-Tests Pixel Hardware

Pixel Drop

An Exclusive Look at Reliability Labs, Where Google Stress-Tests Pixel Hardware

Julian Chokkattu

Everything Google Announced Today at Its Pixel Hardware Event

Ten-Hut

Everything Google Announced Today at Its Pixel Hardware Event

Julian Chokkattu

With the Pixel Watch 4, Google’s Smartwatch Is Finally Repairable

Wear and Tear

With the Pixel Watch 4, Google’s Smartwatch Is Finally Repairable

Julian Chokkattu

10 Crazy Features Powering Google’s Pixel 10 Phones (and Watch)

Hey Gemini

10 Crazy Features Powering Google’s Pixel 10 Phones (and Watch)

Julian Chokkattu

The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan

Road to Nowhere

The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan

Nick Gibbs and Jeremy White

The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

Files Are Forever

The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

Reece Rogers

Pebblebee Is Getting Serious About Personal Safety Tracking

Location Innovation

Pebblebee Is Getting Serious About Personal Safety Tracking

Sophie Charara

Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

Killing Dreams

Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

Craig Grannell

Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV

Gear Roundup

Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV

Julian Chokkattu

Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

Livestream Q&A

Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

Reece Rogers

The Apple Watch Is Finally Getting Blood Oxygen Sensing Back

Back for Blood

The Apple Watch Is Finally Getting Blood Oxygen Sensing Back

Adrienne So

I Replaced My Mac With an iPad for an Entire Week. It Went as Well as You’d Expect

Trading Places

I Replaced My Mac With an iPad for an Entire Week. It Went as Well as You’d Expect

Craig Grannell

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

You Don’t Say

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

Reece Rogers

AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September

Goodbye

AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica