Is it Google Home? Is it a picture frame? Is it worth splurging SGD 189 of your hard-earned money on? The Google Nest Hub comes a year after the tech giant brought the Google Home (SGD 169) and Google Home Mini (SGD 79) smart speakers to the Singaporean market. With
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The Google Nest Hub smart display has landed in Singapore - at long last adding convenience to home automation with a 7-inch touchscreen interface. The Google Nest Hub, previously called the Google Home Hub, has rivals like the Amazon Echo Show and the Facebook Portal - neither of which have
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Just in lieu of Google's high-profile compliance with US policy requiring interdiction of Huawei, fellow American tech companies have fallen in line with rulings regarding Huawei's status on the "Entity List". These have included major chipmakers Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, along with memory chip makers Micron Technology and Western Digital.
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The trade feud between the United States and China has come to a head with the US adding Huawei to its "Entity List", which is a group of companies that American companies are banned from doing business with, unless express government approval is obtained. Reuters reports that American technology giant
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"The future of gaming is not a box", quipped Google's Stadia Twitter account. Possibly not-so-subtle jibe at the venerable Xbox, Stadia instead claims it instead is a "place for all the ways we play". At GDC 2019, Google expands its purview of technological hardware and services to include gaming. [embed]https://twitter.com/web/status/1108066277992607744[/embed]
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Verily, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is responsible for Study Watch, a smartwatch for research purposes in to Parkinsons and heart diseases. As such, it only captures health data for clinical research, with metrics including heart rate, electrodermal activity and body movement. Launched in 2017, the Study Watch
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In a blog post, Google Fellow and Vice President of Engineering Ben Smith announced the "sunsetting" (termination) of the Google+ networking service, citing "significant challenges" meeting consumer expectations. This announcement comes alongside Project Strobe, which addresses security improvements over the range of G Suite services. As part of the Project
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Just earlier, it was revealed that Google's upcoming Android update will be named Android Pie. It has, until now, been referred to as Android P due to the company's policy of using alphabetically sequential product name initials. [caption id="attachment_133492" align="alignleft" width="1371"] The Android Pie statue, unveiled at the Google Campus.
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After a decisive showing from Google's current smartphone lineup, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the tech giant is expected to be preparing to release a new generation of mobile devices. Expected to be known as the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the latest in Google's lineup of
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Just yesterday, Google made a series of announcements about a series of updates to its plethora of services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4630&v=ogfYd705cRs Hardware Gets Beefed Google AI gets beefed with new hardware. New 3rd Generation TPUs are 8x more powerful than the previous generation, potentially enhancing Google’s native products, and increasing the potential
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The Google Home and Home Mini were launched in Singapore just about a week ago, after having the Home Mini in my bedroom for the past 2 weeks, here's what I have to say about the small, smart, and rather cute device. Design, Hardware & Performance The Home Mini retails
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It's been 16 months since the Google Home was first released in the United States and after a long anticipated wait, it's here in Singapore. You might ask why this took so long, I mean it's just a change of plugs right? Wrong. Google emphasises that the sets of the
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Google’s Home Max is the latest addition to their line of smart speakers. This new smart speaker system comes with a steep price tag of about SGD525. This puts it in direct competition up against Apple’s recently released HomePod. The Home Max has been positioned as a premium smart speaker
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Android-powered tablets are about to get a lot more competitive with Google's updates to ChromeOS. In its latest iteration, Version 64, Chromebooks are now equipped with essential tablet-oriented features. These include multi-tasking through split-screen capabilities. [caption id="attachment_131948" align="alignnone" width="640"] The Google Pixelbook exemplifies a budget computing option popular amongst students. Image:
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The smartphone business is ending 2017 in fine style, with four top new devices made available on the market in September and October (at the time of this article the Apple iPhone X has yet to be released). We were recently invited to attend the Huawei Mate 10 launch event
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Welcome to the world of Google Wifi, which is now available in Singapore in exclusive partnership with telco StarHub. Google's first foray into home wireless routers backs up the IT giant's push for the Internet of Things (IoT) with a mesh networking system to ensure users enjoy complete home coverage
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26 July, Singapore - Asus has announced that the new Zenphone AR will be available in Singapore from the 5th of August. Powered by Google's Tango smartphone augmented reality technology and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor customised for running Tango, the Zenphone AR is equipped with a number of sensors
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Google's robust application, Google Photos is about to get some new sharing features its way, namely, Suggested Sharing, Shared Libraries, and Photo Books. Suggested Sharing Suggested Sharing will use artificial intelligence, more specifically, machine learning to give you suggestions as to who you might want to share your photos with
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You can now do a lot more than look at the streets with Google’s new Special Collections for Street View in Singapore, which will enable you to experience 360 degree panoramic views of 30 newly mapped locations in Singapore including national parks like the new Punggol Waterway Park; offshore islands
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Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been turning up their game when it comes to producing affordable, yet well-equipped smartphones. Elefone, is one of them, and its P8000 is a great example of an all-rounded budgeteer. With a 4,200mAh high capacity battery and 3GB worth of RAM, the P8000 is a jack
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