Category: Tech and Innovation Insights

Just ahead of the upcoming Labor Day sales event, the Google Pixel Watch 2 has dropped to its lowest price yet, nearly two weeks after the launch of its successor, the Pixel Watch 3. Amazon has the excellent Pixel Watch 2 on sale for $249.99 (it was $328.55). That’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen and $150 less than the Pixel Watch 3. Most Pixel Watch 2 colors are available, including black, hazel (gray), and bay active (light blue). Unfortunately, the porcelain colorway isn’t included. As mentioned earlier, the price drop…

Google will have to answer in court allegations of collecting users’ private information inside its Chrome browser without their permission following a new ruling. A US federal appeals court has reversed a previous dismissal of the case Calhoun v. Google LLC on the basis that the lower court should have assessed “whether a reasonable user reading [Google’s privacy disclosures would think that he or she was consenting to the data collection]. Per The Verge, at the heart of the case is the allegation that Google harvested data on users of…

Watch the 2024 US Open as the world’s best players descend on Flushing Meadows in the final Grand Slam tournament of the year. Below we have all the information on how to watch US Open tennis from anywhere in the world with details on worldwide TV channels, broadcasters and free streams. One year ago Novak Djokovic capped off a remarkable season with victory at the US Open. This time around the Serbian arrives in New York having failed to add to his haul of slams but with an Olympic gold…

Pakistanis have been battling painfully slow internet connections for almost a month – an incident that strikes a hard blow to the national economy. While the problem is certainly undeniable, it isn’t yet clear who’s to blame for it. Experts hold the government responsible for Pakistan’s internet downfall, accusing authorities of actively building a China-style firewall.  Government representatives, however, strongly dismissed the allegations. Their official statement instead blames citizens’ increased usage of the best VPN apps to bypass online geo-restrictions. Since February, people in Pakistan haven’t been able to access…

Whether you work from home or you’re at the office all day, the last thing most of us want to do at the end of the working week is spend time sweeping and mopping floors. That’s where this helpful little hero comes to the rescue, and just in time, as right now you can get the Eufy X10 Pro Omni at Amazon for £679 (was £799). This deal means that there’s a tidy £120 to be saved on this self-emptying sanity saviour. It’s the lowest price we’ve seen the X10…

Artificial intelligence is already changing professional working patterns across almost every industry. It has the power to drastically reduce the time we spend on routine tasks and free us up to think more strategically in our day-to-day professional lives. This is no different for the IT and cybersecurity sector – at ISACA, our survey of business and IT professionals in Europe found that almost three quarters (73%) of the businesses we surveyed reported that their staff use AI at work. Yet the key issue with AI, as transformative as it…

Ring has launched a new entry-level battery-operated video doorbell with features like full-height video that you’d previously only find in much more expensive models.  In terms of specs, the new Ring Battery Doorbell is similar to the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus, which launched last year. That includes head-to-toe HD video with a 150-degree by 150-degree field of view so you can get a proper view of the person at your door. The wide field of view also makes it easier to see packages left on the ground, which is particularly…

Ring, the maker of some of the best video doorbells, is holding open auditions to find a new voice to give some personality to Quick Replies – pre-selected messages that play when someone presses the button, a little like an answering machine. Scotland has a huge variety of accents, and Ring hasn’t specified one in particular – the only requirement is that you’re at least 18 years old. The company is holding in-person events in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, or you can audition virtually by recording a video of yourself…

Competitors in the Paris Olympics weren’t the only ones breaking records last month – streaming services were setting PBs, too. And the standout star on smart TVs was YouTube, which is now comfortably eclipsing the likes of Netflix according to a fascinating new report. Nielsen’s The Gauge tracks viewing across all key platforms in the US on TV screens (smartphones, tablets and laptops aren’t included). In July, streaming TV accounted for a record-breaking 41.4% of all TV viewing, breaking the previous record that had just been set this June. But the…

Asus has prematurely listed AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors on its microsite for incoming 800 series motherboards, in what’s another hint that next-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs might be here sooner than expected. As VideoCardz noticed, the site lists X870 (and X870E), B850 and B840 motherboards for Ryzen 9000 (second-gen AM5 boards still based on the same socket that was introduced with Ryzen 7000). However, the telling bit here is that the site mentions ‘Ryzen 9000X3D’ in numerous places, or it did anyway – that no longer seems to be the case.…