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The Pixel 6 Pro is Google’s reinvigorated attempt to beat Apple and Samsung’s best smartphones, with powerful new cameras, custom chips and a standout design. The new model is Google’s top phone for 2021 and costs £849 ($899/A$1,299), sitting above the standard Pixel 6 costing £599. From the front, the Pixel 6 Pro looks like a standard top-end phone with a large 6.7in OLED screen that’s really good-looking, crisp, bright and smooth, with a 120Hz refresh rate. There’s a small hole… Source link

The Chromecast with Google TV remote.  David Katzmaier/CNET … Source link

Google’s latest high-end smartphones — the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro — are officially launching on Oct. 28. At $599 and $899, respectively, Google is undercutting the iPhones and Samsung Galaxys of the world with premium hardware that doesn’t compromise on speed, photography and ultimately using the devices day-in-and-out. The new Pixels are essentially a whole new phone whole new phone with a refreshing design that feels… Source link

There is a lot of hype around the Google Pixel 6, which has new cameras, Google’s Tensor… Source link

You only get so many Hail Mary passes in consumer electronics. Even among the biggest companies. Take a look a Microsoft’s long-standing mobile phone ambitions. Even a $7.2 billion acquisition of the once-dominant Nokia couldn’t buy the company a place at the table with Apple and Samsung. Some earlier false starts aside, Google’s mobile hardware ambitions have been — on the whole — more successful. But the Pixel line has never had the major hit the company needs to justify the… Source link

For half a decade, Google, the maker of Android, the world’s most widely used phone software, has had a dream to make a best-selling phone that rivals the gold standard, the iPhone. Google’s Pixel phones have consistently received positive reviews but sell tepidly because of a major weakness: They have relied on off-the-shelf parts from other companies. As a result, they have felt sluggish compared with devices made by Apple, which tightly controls the quality of its iPhones by doing… Source link

Google’s approach to its Nest Cam with Floodlight is a lot like its competitors’: take an outdoor camera and slap some lights and a higher… Source link

This is the Nest Cam (Indoor, Wired) in Sand with the Maple Wood base.  Molly Price/CNET … Source link

The latest addition to the Google’s family of home security cameras, the $179.99 Nest Cam (Outdoor or Indoor, Battery), is also its most versatile. As the name implies, you can use this weatherproof camera indoors or outdoors and power it using the built-in rechargeable battery or the included USB cable and AC power adapter. The Nest Cam performed well in testing, capturing sharp 1080p video and identifying motion caused by people and animals, but it requires a Nest Aware subscription to… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has directed staff to review the central bank system’s rules around stock trading as part of clean-up efforts related to the disclosure of several personal multi-million dollar transactions made by senior policymakers last year. “Chair Powell late last week directed Board staff to take a fresh and comprehensive look at the ethics rules around permissible financial holdings and activities by senior Fed officials,” a Fed spokesperson said. The Fed… Source link