Color comes to the big Kindles. Amazon announced three new Kindle Scribes this morning with a much nicer design. There’s even one with a color screen. I had a chance to check them out ahead of Amazon’s press event, and I have some thoughts. This marks the third generation of the company’s larger 11-inch eReaders … Read more
The new Echo Show 11 smart display in white. This is one of the first devices to ship with Alexa Plus, Amazon’s new generative AI assistant, ready to go out of the box. Amazon’s newest Echo speakers look gorgeous. Thin bezels, bright, responsive touchscreens, 3D knit fabric-wrapped speakers with controls front and center, and most … Read more
The Echo Dot Max has a flatter face with relocated control buttons. Amazon took the wraps off its latest Echo Dot smart speaker during its fall hardware event on Tuesday. The Echo Dot Max is a new entry that updates the recognizable spherical design with a flat face housing the speaker’s control buttons and LED … Read more
The Echo Show 11 is the larger of Amazon’s two new smart displays. Amazon debuted the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 during its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday, after heavily relying on previous versions of the smart display to demonstrate upgrades coming to its Alexa smart assistant at an event earlier … Read more
Amazon revealed a new Echo Studio smart speaker at its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday. A new speaker wasn’t a total surprise, as Amazon’s event invite hinted strongly that there might be new Echo devices revealed at the show. The company initially announced the Echo Studio in 2019. My former colleague Dan Seifert wrote … Read more
Amazon announced three new versions of the Kindle Scribe today including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft featuring a larger version of the customized E Ink screen technology that Amazon uses in its color e-reader. The new Scribes feature a major redesign that does away with the asymmetrical chin on one side making the devices look sleeker … Read more
At Amazon’s annual hardware event, it announced a fleet of new Fire TVs, including an Omni QLED model, as well as new 2 and 4-series televisions. The QLED features an auto-adjusting screen for various lighting conditions, plus what the company calls omnisense presence detection. Amazon’s Fire TV operating system powers TVs from various manufacturers, but … Read more
Amazon announced the new Fire TV 4K Select streaming stick at its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday. The new streaming stick will cost $39.99 and ships in October. The stick offers “vibrant 4K picture quality,” support for HDR 10 Plus, and “apps that launch remarkably fast,” Amazon says. It will work with “your favorite … Read more
Amazon is launching a trio of new Blink cameras today, headlined by a strange-looking device that sticks two cameras into a single body. The new Blink Arc looks like two of Blink’s standard cameras mounted together at an angle from one another so that they capture different views of the same area. The camera then … Read more
Amazon just announced some new Ring hardware with upgraded 2K and 4K recording and some fancy processing tech that’s supposed to make streams look better than the competition. The new $179.99 Ring Wired Doorbell and $59.99 Indoor Cam Plus both offer 2K resolution featuring tech that Ring is calling “Retinal Vision.” There’s also a ton … Read more
I’ve been hooked on SteelSeries gaming headsets ever since the Arctis Pro launched more than five years ago. The Nova range upped the quality with feature, fit, and software improvements, and the company is now going one step further with a $599.99 Nova Elite headset – a price that I’ve been questioning every day during … Read more
Amazon will kick off its 2025 fall hardware event today, September 30th, at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, and the company has already teased a few new products we should expect. Based on the company’s own event invite, it seems like we can look forward to at least two new Echos, a new color Kindle, … Read more
We’re at Amazon’s fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where the company is set to announce a bunch of new gadgets ahead of the holidays. Amazon’s teaser image for today suggested new Kindles, Echos, and maybe a TV. Whatever it is, it’s been a long time coming: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy promised “beautiful” … Read more
Google Drive for desktop is adding ransomware detection using an AI model trained on “millions of real-world ransomware samples” that will “look for signals that a file has been maliciously modified.” When Google’s AI believes it has detected ransomware activity on a Windows or macOS system, like trying to encrypt or corrupt files en masse, … Read more
AI Mode now supports searching by vibe. Google’s latest AI Mode update makes it easier for users to search through images using vague descriptions and references. The update provides a more conversational way to shop for products online, according to Google’s announcement, allowing AI Mode users to “describe what you’re looking for — like the … Read more
Microsoft is launching a Security Store that will be full of security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and AI agents. It’s part of a broader effort to sell Microsoft’s Sentinel security platform to businesses, complete with Microsoft Security Copilot AI agents that can be built by security teams to help tackle the latest threats. The Microsoft Security … Read more
The vehicle of the future is electric. It’s good for the environment. It has enough room for your stuff, as long as you’re coming from the grocery and not the furniture store. It’s fast, it has super-responsive steering, and you can park it basically anywhere – including your living room. That’s because the vehicle of … Read more
For EVs, it’s Zero Hour. When the clock strikes midnight on Oct. 1, the $7,500 federal tax credit on EVs will expire, potentially turning affordable electric carriages into showroom pumpkins. Sales of electric cars are certain to dip. Real-world prices will rise. The only question is how much, and for how long, as President Donald … Read more
Nothing’s Playground tool lets users design smartphone apps with AI. Nothing says it has just taken “the first step towards an AI-native operating system.” Not exactly. Playground, Nothing’s new app store filled with user-designed, AI-generated apps, is neither Nothing’s first step, nor is it an operating system — it’s built on Android. But the idea … Read more
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO, two decades after founding the music streaming service. Ek will transition to an executive chairman role at the company on January 1st, 2026, with Spotify co-presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström set to step in as co-CEOs. “As Executive Chairman, I will spend … Read more
A 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming on roads and trails. Garmin’s $449.99 eTrex Touch is a rugged GPS navigator with preloaded maps for outdoor adventures. It features a 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming in on roads and trails, and comes preloaded with TopoActive maps and the option to add an Outdoor Maps Plus plan ($4.99/month) … Read more
A limited number of people will get to try out Opera’s AI browser, Neon, starting today for $19.90 per month. The Norwegian software company first announced the “agentic browser” in May, but details were sparse. Now, we know that Opera Neon includes different AI agents that are tailored to specific tasks. One simply called Tasks … Read more
If you saw the leaks, you probably already know that haptics are the big, new thing in Logitech’s $119.99 MX Master 4 wireless mouse, coming in October. No, it’s not adding rumble effects to YouTube videos or to your favorite websites (on second thought, I’d like to try that). And, it’s different from Logitech’s haptics-based … Read more
YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook), and X (then Twitter) after he was suspended from the platforms, and now all three companies have settled with the president. YouTube will pay $24.5 … Read more
Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California. On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,” which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It’s the second draft of such a bill, as … Read more
Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announced today. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, who was just promoted to president of Windows and devices earlier this month, shared the changes to Microsoft’s Windows teams in an internal memo. “This … Read more
Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of security and privacy. Research outlined by Wired shows that Tile’s anti-theft mode, which makes its trackers “invisible” on the Tile network, counteracts measures to prevent … Read more
Electronic Arts just announced that it is going to be acquired and taken private in a massive $55 billion deal led by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The deal, expected to close in Q1 of EA’s 2027 fiscal year (which takes place from April … Read more
PlayStation: The First 30 Years provides a rare look at what could have been. | Image: Read-Only Memory It’s been 30 years since the original PlayStation was released in North America and Europe after first debuting in Japan nine months earlier. To mark the occasion, Sony has announced a “large-format photography book” featuring 400 pages … Read more
The Echo Pop is $15 off. The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, … Read more