Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign - The Verge
Sony’s Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that’s finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved telephoto camera, along with an AI camera assistant that looks like an improved version of Google’s Camera Coach.
Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI - The Register
If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere Google is rolling out a new line of laptops based on Android instead of ChromeOS, and using the opportunity to try and move upmarket from the budget-conscious Chromebooks – while also baking AI into every fissure of the system. The new line of so-called Googlebooks seems even more obtrusive about pushing embedded AI than Windows 11 embedding Copilot into everything.
Google Health kills the Fitbit we knew, but maybe that’s not a bad thing - 9to5Google
Alongside its new Fitbit Air, Google this week announced that the Fitbit app is dead, to be replaced by “Google Health.” If you’d told me this would happen a few months ago, I’d be worried, but the end result actually seems like an overall win for everyone involved. Let’s take a closer look.
45-year-old man caught hiding in Best Buy overnight to be early Pokemon card release - Dexerto
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