Google Catches As much as Apple and Samsung within the {Hardware} Race

Although it’s already October, we’re someway nonetheless seeing new merchandise introduced by the tech giants. This week, it was Google’s flip to point out off its new devices. There’s the brand new Pixel 7 cellphone, in fact, however Google additionally unveiled the Pixel Watch, its first smartwatch launch since its acquisition of the wearable firm Fitbit.

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This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED evaluations editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to go over all of the stuff Google introduced this week, together with new Pixel telephones and Google’s entry into the very crowded smartwatch house.

Present Notes

Learn extra concerning the Pixel Watch and the Pixel 7 telephones. Additionally learn the preliminary announcement from Google I/O earlier this 12 months.

Suggestions

Julian recommends the Netflix present Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Mike recommends the guide Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Modified the World by Mark Kurlansky. Lauren recommends the guide Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the On-line Battles Upending Democracy in America by Emily Dreyfuss, Joan Donovan, and Brian Friedberg and likewise the 24-part CNN documentary from the ’90s concerning the Chilly Struggle.

Julian Chokkattu might be discovered on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the primary hotline at @GadgetLab. The present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Photo voltaic Keys.

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