Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription
Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription

Google has finally made a new smart speaker, its first in roughly six years. The more interesting thing it has made is a reason to pay it every month. The Google Home Speaker costs $99.99, opens for preorder today and ships on June 25. It is the first …

Commodore’s comeback flip phone runs your apps but bans the doomscroll
Commodore’s comeback flip phone runs your apps but bans the doomscroll

Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshell that runs modern apps but blocks web browsers and …

Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have
Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, and it puts Mark Zuckerberg halfway to the 1 billion-user…

Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI agents will be the new app, and 40 new devices are coming

Qualcomm’s chief executive thinks the app as you know it is on the way out, and that the phone in your pocket is about to lose its place at the centre of your digital life. ‘Agents are going to be the new app,’ Cristiano Amon told CNBC’s The Tech Downl…

Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America

Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans. “Meta AI on these glasses can describe what…

Logitech’s Mobi Fold is a foldable travel mouse with an AI model to stop accidental clicks
Logitech’s Mobi Fold is a foldable travel mouse with an AI model to stop accidental clicks

Logitech has launched the Mobi Fold, its first foldable mouse, aimed at hybrid workers who want a proper mouse on the road but leave it behind because it will not fit in the bag. The mouse folds to nearly half its size, and the fold is also the power s…