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Google has introduced its latest wearables: the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2, at an Australian media event a few days ago which I attended for techAU. The Pixel Watch 3 offers improved fitness tracking and battery life, while the Pixel Buds Pro 2 feature a comfort-focused design, enhanced noise cancellation, and the new Tensor A1 chip for advanced audio processing. Both devices integrate...

Overnight, Google has renamed their large language model service Bard, to Gemini. As part of the rebrand, they also launched a mobile app for Android and iOS and launched a paid subscription for Gemini Advanced, built on their largest and most advanced model, Ultra 1.0 which should lead to even better results. Free for the first 2 months, Gemini Advanced costs A$32.99 per...

Hands up if you get a lot scam/spam calls on your mobile? Keep your hand up if you also have to deal with a lot of call centres for banks, centrelink etc so you can do life admin. If you have a Google Pixel 8 Pro phone (and some older Pixel phones) you can use two features to deal with both of those problems. Call Screen...

Officeworks is offering big discounts on the Google Pixel range until 16th November 2023 including generous trade-in bonus voucher offers for the Pixel 8 range (while stocks last): Pixel 8 Pro: 128GB $1277, 256GB $1377 Pixel 8: 128GB $977, 256GB $1077 Pixel Tablet 128GB: Porcelain $577, Hazel $577 When they launched last month the Google Pixel 8 base model price was $1199 and the Pixel...

I didn't pay much attention when Google first mentioned Magic Editor in Google Photos at Google IO in May 2023 but I'm definitely interested in it now after trying out this feature on their new Pixel 8 Pro Android phone. Magic Editor only works at the moment on a Pixel 8 Pro or Pixel 8. Later the feature may be enabled for older Pixel phones. Google...

One of the most important parts of the Google Australia briefing I attended last week was when they displayed these 3 slides, which set a new industry standard by promising the new Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8 Android phones will get updates until September 2030. That's not a typo. Google promises that: "Pixel phones are engineered to last and get better over time. With your...

It has been 8 years since the last time Google released an Android tablet with the Pixel C launch. Will the new $899 Pixel Tablet be as much loved as the Nexus 7 tablet which was Googles first entry into the Android tablet market over 10 years ago? If you're wondering who the Pixel Tablet is aimed at ... a Product Manager for the Google Pixel...

This week, at Google I/O 2023, Google announced they were removing the waitlist for more than 180 countries and released their ChatGPT competitor, Google Bard to the world. Bard is the product name for their large language model PaLM 2, which is also known as a conversational AI. PaLM2 is a significant upgrade over Google's first attempt, adding the following benefits: Multilinguality: PaLM 2 is...