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Google has confirmed a Made by Google hardware launch event on August 12, which will almost certainly see the launch of new Pixel phones and smartwatches. The company is promising to introduce the “next generation of people” at the in-person event in New York, which is now five weeks away. The invite also reveals a new gold frame, that’ll presumably be a new colourway for the Pixel range. Google is on course to Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold, to succeed the quartet of phones launched in 2025. They’ll be the first…
Google is hosting its next Made by Google launch event for Pixel hardware on August 12th in New York City, according to an invitation sent by Google to The Verge. Unusually, the event is taking place in the evening: It’ll kick off at 6PM ET that day.Last year’s Pixel 10 launch event — which featured Jimmy Fallon and a live studio audience — took place on August 20th, with the base and Pro model phones releasing shortly after on August 28th. Read the full article here
Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug impacted around 200 users who posted “grid-like” pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted “other benign images” since May 2026. “Everyone affected has now been unbanned,” Vishnevskiy says.In a thread on X, Discord writes that its safety system is designed to flag content by “matching it against known harmful material.” This system can produce “false positives,” Discord explains, which is when an employee would step in to review the flagged content. But instead of just temporarily preventing the account from uploading content during the review, a…
Wimbledon might be all about the tennis, but let’s be honest – the celebrity wrist game this year has been just as competitive as anything happening on Centre Court. SW19’s All England Club has always doubled as a fashion and watch-spotter’s paradise, what with the dress code, the front-row seats and the sheer volume of A-listers who turn up each year, and 2026 has been no exception. From sprinting legends to Hollywood royalty, everyone’s brought their best watches to the party, here are six of the best watches spotted at The Championships 2026. Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage Usain Bolt –…
Ever since Renault resurrected Alpine in 2018 with the firecracker that was the modern Alpine A110, I’ve wondered how its philosophy of lightness over everything would translate to the electric world. There’s not much longer to wait before we find out: Alpine has confirmed we’ll get our first look at its third-generation A110 – at least in test mule form – at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Alpine A110 Future was recently showcased during a tech day at the carmaker’s French headquarters, but the Festival of Speed will be its first public appearance. It sits on an all-new Alpine…
Still buying and binning plastic bottles every day? It adds up fast, and it’s not doing the planet any favours. If you’re ready to cut back on single-use plastic, switching to one of the best reusable water bottles is a genuinely easy place to start. Of course, true zero-waste living means hiking into the hills and drinking straight from a spring. Fresh, free and about as sustainable as it gets – though not exactly practical before a 9am meeting. For the rest of us, the simplest fix is swapping disposable bottles for a decent reusable bottle you can refill at…
The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by default, and is related to app permissions. Several users have had issues with this file over the past few months, with one person saying the file took up 500GB of storage on their device. Others have reported the file growing to similarly large amounts, ranging from 12GB to 200GB.Microsoft doesn’t explain what went wrong here, but Windows Latest says the file may be growing because Windows 11 “keeps logging repeated events for access requests or other privacy controls, such as location.”If you’re affected by this issue, you can install the…
If you’re an Apple fan after one of the best smart home cameras or video doorbells, I have some (potentially) good news for you. Numerous reports and online whispers have suggested that Apple is developing its own smart home camera as part of a much broader push into connected home devices – like the long-rumoured HomePod Mini 2 and even more mysterious Home Hub. Of course, Apple hasn’t confirmed that any such products exist, and many details remain uncertain –the main image above is the rear camera setup of an iPhone 16e, for example. But that’s all part of the…
The star of the show is the Megalodon driver featuring a bright blue end cap iFixit calls the Swivel Grip Cap. The screwdriver is able to spin freely while you hold the cap in place to steady it, allowing you to quickly remove screws. When you need more power for tightening screws or other fasteners, pushing down on the Swivel Grip Cap locks it in place, allowing you to apply more torque and force to the driver with your hand. As iFixit points out, the Megalodon can be used as either a swivel driver or a static driver as needed,…
In the summer of 2024, former Army National Guard member Andrew Scott Hastings spent a sweaty afternoon carefully packing boxes with parts he made using his 3D printer. These weren’t novelty figurines or replacement Ikea pieces. The boxes were instead filled with a handful of homemade firearm lower receivers and more than 100 “switches,” small devices capable of converting a semiautomatic gun into a fully automatic weapon. Their intended recipients, federal prosecutors allege, were al-Qaida operatives.Months later ATF agents busted two men in Colorado Springs for allegedly using 3D printers to churn out hundreds of illegal machine gun conversion devices…
I used to think I’d never join “nothing gets between me and my morning coffee” brigade, but getting older and becoming a dad quickly changed my mind. Now even roasting summer heatwave temperatures haven’t been enough to stop me reaching for a morning cup – or rather they haven’t with the KitchenAid KF4 on brewing duties. KitchenAid’s newest fully automatic bean-to-cup coffee machine isn’t just a brilliantly simple way to make hot coffee. It also offers iced options for staying cool when the mercury rises. After living with one for a few weeks, I’ve fallen for its one-and-done approach, even…
Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year’s Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of the 4A and 4A Pro, it follows Nothing’s previous cheaper handsets in skipping the US market.The company already uses the “A” branding to market its cheaper tier of products, and the first “B” phone sits another level below that. The 4B seemingly replaces the naming convention used for last year’s Phone 3A Lite.Design-wise, it borrows a little from the two 4A phones, which launched in March this year. The unibody look is similar to…