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Google's first smart speaker in six years is built around Gemini, sounds good at $99, and hides some of the best AI tricks behind a Home Premium subscription after a free trial.
Fenix always won on endurance and lost on connectivity. Fenix 9 brings real two-way LTE and satellite into the mainstream flagship, so the battery champion finally gets a voice.
Bose put TrueSpatial, Cinema Mode, ActiveSense, and USB-C on the regular QuietComfort at $359. Same day, The Gadgeteer found the Ultra (2nd Gen) at $379 on Bose.com, twenty bucks more after a drop from $449.
A Microsoft publisher memo reported by The Verge's Tom Warren says Project Helix aims to run original Xbox through Series games, with disc-to-digital for One and Series and opt-in work for older eras.
RTX 5090 cards with a $1,999 MSRP still trade like luxury goods, memory makers are hiking again, and the late-2025 hope that prices would calm down looks like a rumor we told ourselves.
Dell's Pro Max 16 Plus pairs an Nvidia RTX Pro 5000 mobile GPU with a thermal design built specifically to hold clocks steady under multi-hour rendering and local-inference workloads, rather than just winning short benchmark bursts.
Sony's sixth-generation flagship headphone leans entirely on adaptive noise cancelling that reads the environment continuously instead of switching between fixed modes. After two weeks across flights, open offices, and city streets, the tuning is the best change Sony has made to this line in years.
Apple posted AirPods Max 2 on March 16 with an H2 chip, stronger ANC, and creator features, still priced at $549. Preorders start March 25. The original Max is done.
