Ben Schoon

IKEA has announced over 20 new Matter-connected smart home products coming to market soon.

Pebblebee is updating its lineup of trackers for Android Find Hub and Apple’s Find My with better hardware, new limited-time colors, and wireless charging too.

After launching the feature earlier this year, YouTube has unleashed a new wave of AI age verification on the platform, angering some.

Fairphone has been building ultra-repairable Android smartphones for the past few years, but has yet to sell anything in the US market. That’s officially changing now, but it’s starting off with headphones instead.

Google has released a handful of new merch ahead of the holiday season, with the latest batch including a familiar Android plushie and more.

Samsung has reportedly been on the fence regarding the future of its super-slim smartphones after the Galaxy S25 Edge failed badly, but that hasn’t stopped the company from putting on a brave face to try and compare the Galaxy S25 Edge to the iPhone Air in a series of ads.

Google has submitted a proposal to “fix” the Play Store following its loss in the Epic Games court case, and the changes include better third-party app store support and reduced, but more complex, fees in the Play Store.

After launching on iOS a month ago, OpenAI has finally released its Sora app on Android, granting more users the ability to generate its eerily realistic AI videos.

Nomad is updating its signature “Stand One” lineup with Qi2 support, which means Pixel 10 and iPhone 17 owners have a new Qi2 25W option that includes a second charger for their Pixel Buds or AirPods.

Nothing’s latest smartphone introduced a number of new bloatware apps from Meta, some of which couldn’t be uninstalled, but that will change in future updates.

Motorola is announcing its first two Moto G phones for 2026, with the latest Moto G and Moto G Play using MediaTek chips, starting under $200, and going on sale starting this month.

Amid an ongoing feud with YouTube TV, Disney asked the streamer to temporarily revive ABC in favor of “the public interest,” to which YouTube TV has not only said no, but said that its subscribers specifically chose not to watch ABC on the past two Election Days.

As of last month, the older Nest Thermostats have effectively died, as Google has pulled the plug on most of their features. While many will end up replacing the decade-old hardware, a clever new project hopes to give older Nest Thermostats a new lease on life.

Ahead of the global debut of the OnePlus 15 later this month, OnePlus has unveiled its new “Gaming Technology” which uses three tentpoles to improve on Android gaming.

Slider phones are a core memory for many, between the classic QWERTY phones of the early 2000’s to Sony’s iconic Xperia Play phone that packed a physical game controller inside of a phone. Now, that form factor is seemingly making a comeback as Ayaneo is teasing its first gaming phone.