With a 12-inch touchscreen, convertible form factor, optional stylus input, and integration with Google Assistant, the new Google Pixelbook hopes to compete with both Apple’s MacBook and iPad Pro lineups.

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In addition to its budget-priced $49 Google Home Mini, the search giant also introduced a push to the premium end of the speaker market, unveiling the $399 Google Home Max with speakers 20 times more powerful than the regular Home.

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Apple has validated recent rumors by announcing an updated store for Los Angeles’s Westfield Century City mall, located on Santa Monica Boulevard.

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Google on Wednesday unveiled a smaller, more affordable version of its Home speaker and assistant, dubbed the Google Home Mini, set to launch in stores on Oct. 19 for $49.

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With a retro art design harkening back to the heyday of console gaming, the new and free “Stranger Things: The Game” leans heavily on nostalgia, just like the blockbuster series on which it is based.

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Sonos on Wednesday launched the $199 Sonos One, a smartspeaker with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, as well as support for Apple AirPlay 2 and Google Assistant coming in 2018.

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An unnamed Apple executive — possibly Chief Executive Tim Cook — allegedly asked Samsung to pressure South Korean antitrust regulators into intensifying their investigation into Qualcomm, with the ultimate goal of reducing royalty payments, according to Qualcomm court filings unearthed on Wednesday.

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Speaker maker Sonos on Wednesday announced that it will create an open platform, not only giving any music services access to its hardware, but also integrating with Apple’s forthcoming AirPlay 2 wireless standard.

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Confirming an earlier report, the European Commission on Wednesday said it will bring Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to collect at least $15 billion in back taxes from Apple, which were originally due Jan. 3.

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Adobe on Wednesday issued the latest versions of its consumer level photo and video editing software, Photoshop Elements 2018 and Premiere Elements 2018, with a slew of fresh features, many of which are powered by all-new content intelligence capabilities.

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