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Google Teases Impending Launch of New Gemini-Powered Smart Home Speaker

Google appears ready to unveil its next-generation smart speaker, ending a long hiatus in its hardware lineup. Speculation regarding the device intensified following a cryptic message from Anish Kattukaran, Google’s Chief Product Officer for Gemini for Home. In an email and subsequent Reddit post addressing the 3.5 million early testers of the Gemini for Home ecosystem, the executive thanked users for their feedback before dropping a major hint. Kattukaran explicitly urged users who have been patiently waiting for a “certain speaker” to keep a very close eye on their inboxes next week, strongly signaling that an official announcement is imminent.

This executive teaser aligns with recent retail leaks that gave the public a glimpse of Google’s upcoming hardware. The unannounced smart speaker briefly appeared on Best Buy Canada’s e-commerce platform, which listed its official launch date as June 25. While Google has yet to officially confirm this specific retail timeline,...

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The APIisation of logistics is making India’s supply chain programmable

For the longest time, logistics in India was a relationship business. You shipped with the freight operator your father introduced you to. You got better rates if you knew the right person at the right courier company. And when something went wrong, which it often did, you picked up the

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Use of HMRC's taxing IR35 status tool drops 71% in two years

PUBLIC SECTOR Data suggests firms are turning away from CEST as critics say it fails to reflect recent court rulings Use of HMRC's own tool for checking compliance with the UK's controversial IR35 freelancer tax rules has fallen sharply, according to Freedom of Information data obtained

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Nutanix's Tech Day London 2026 offers infrastructure insights

SPONSORED POST: Come join this working afternoon for infrastructure teams Your hybrid estate has grown more complicated since the last refresh cycle. Some workloads run in the public cloud, others never left the rack, and a few sit stuck in transition because nobody wants to be the person who broke

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The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has, in a series of recent meetings, told senior ASML executives he’s concerned that one of the Dutch chipmaker’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines — the EUV systems that are the only tools on Earth capable of printing the most advanced

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The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t