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Google's First Home Speaker Built For Gemini Debuts At $99.99

Google is retooling its smart Home Speaker with an infusion of Gemini and you can perorder it in a variety of colorways for $99.99 ahead of its June 25th release. The refreshed Google Home Speaker is the company's first audio device built for Gemini, and with that integration comes a more natural, conversational voice assistant to streamline tasks.

"The Google Home Speaker comes with Gemini for Home voice assistant, which featuresadvanced natural language understanding and reasoning. Instead of having to memorize rigidcommand phrases, Gemini adapts to how you speak, making it easier and more intuitive to getthe help you need," Google explains.

Part of Google's goal is to deliver a smarter and more logical experience that responds to more than just basic commands. For example, if you say, "Turn off all the lights except for my bedside lamp," the speaker will respond accordingly.

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In Toy Story 5, the problem really is these damn phones (and tablets)

The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic action figure. Woody and Buzz’s rivalry embodied a shift that was happening in the ’90s as children’s toys were becoming more technologically sophisticated, and while toys have gotten

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How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Amazon’s Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and the four-day sale for 2026 begins June 23rd at 3:01AM ET and ends at the same time on June 27th. It will grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the

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Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Critics and competitors have long complained about the "Apple Tax" – the sales commission developers are obliged to pay on App Store sales and in-app purchases. Now Microsoft engineers have documented a performance tax – the performance hit that iOS users today endure because Apple requires iOS browsers, with theoretical

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Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew logo Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us The Homebrew team has released version 6.0 of this popular open-source package manager for macOS and Linux, with a new mechanism for trusting packages and support for sandboxing on Linux,

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