Is AI here to take our jobs or boost productivity to new heights? It's hard to tell, but the picture painted by Google's AI Teammate seems to be somewhere in between. Google presented its vision for an AI Teammate during Google I/O 2024, its annual developer conference. It isn't a Gemini replacement. Instead, it's an additional chatbot that oversees projects, analyzes data, and identifies trends across the workspace.

It can be hard to choose a new phone if you're on a strict budget. While there are plenty of flagship options out there with loads of great features, things get a little more complicated when you're looking for a good phone for under $300 that still offers a pleasant experience. And despite it being pretty slim pickings, Samsung is one brand that offers some pretty good choices.

Occasionally, you'll see a headline touting some groundbreaking battery technology advancement, only for it to be a theoretical concept that's years from reality. But what if we could untether devices from their batteries, and transmit just enough wireless electricity to feed smartwatches, smart rings, and other low-power devices just the trickle of energy they need to keep functioning?

If you put your devices through their paces, a power bank may make a great accompanying device. Today, at Woot, you can save $80 on the Anker Prime 250W power bank, which is marked down to $100. This is 44% off its regular retail price, which normally sits at $180.

If you search for fitness tech, for example, one of our favorite fitness trackers, or hint at running or weightlifting while you're online, fitness ads will follow you around platforms like Facebook and YouTube. Fitness has become a subscription product and each new customer could be worth thousands of dollars. We reviewed the Whoop 4.0 band last year. A year later, the software behind it and its competition have evolved. Does it make sense to buy a Whoop subscription in 2024? What are the benefits and drawbacks of the tech in light of its alternatives, like smartwatches?

There's a dangerous new threat to everyone's bank accounts spreading around the world, and it shows no signs of stopping. This malware is a trojan called ToxicPanda, and it targets bank accounts through Android devices with an advanced attack strategy.

Before you switch operating systems, move your favorite content from your Android phone for audiophiles to your iPhone. If you have a large music library, you can transport it to your iPhone without starting from scratch and enjoy Music Replay with other fresh features. The Move to iOS app would be ideal for transferring data. However, it doesn't support moving music. You'll need to use other methods. Here are the steps you'll follow to transfer your songs.

Im a massive fan of Onyx products. I use my Onyx Boox Go 10.3 daily for note-taking and scanning PDFs. Its a fantastic productivity device that highlights what Onyx does best: providing the flexibility of Android with the charms and benefits of an E Ink display. Unfortunately, that winning formula can't be duplicated at all price levels, and the Onyx Boox Go 6 suffers from trying to do too much.

For nearly a decade now, Google's Pixel lineup has been a fan favorite among Android enthusiasts. Strong online fandoms don't always translate to real world popularity, of course ask any die-hard Carly Rae Jepsen fan, ahem and that's usually been the case for the Pixel. Despite steady year-over-year growth, Google's smartphone division only moved 10 million units in 2023, and that represented an all-time high. In comparison, Apple sold nearly 235 million iPhones in the same 12-month time period, with Samsung not too far behind.

A Google keep change first spotted all the way back in March is starting to roll out now. After already being implemented in other Google services like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, Google Keep is finally gaining a new floating action button that declutters the app's bottom bar.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is seeing its lowest price ever right now. It's going for just $28 at Amazon, and we think this is one of the better streaming device deals you'll come across, as we find the Fire TV Stick 4K to be the best Amazon Fire TV streaming device currently in the lineup. This deal drops the Fire TV Stick 4K to nearly half price, and it's good for $22 in savings. You can save an additional 20% if you have a similar device to trade-in.

Google Photos is the gold standard of cloud storage services. It syncs photos across every device, from PCs to iPads to Android phones. So it's no wonder that Google decided to steal some ideas from its Photos app for a major update to its Pixel Screenshots app.

Pixel users running stable Android 15 or a QPR1 Beta build have been experiencing a critical issue while using major Google apps, with the likes of Gmail being unusable.

Theres no argument that Apples products are designed to work best for those who live in the Apple ecosystem, but that doesnt mean they dont play nicely with other platforms or work well on their own. Thats especially true for the Apple TV 4K, Apples media streaming box, which has become popular enough that its the only Apple product many people own.

Smart lighting is one of the easiest (and most fun) ways to get a start on your smart home. Seriously, the ability to ask an assistant to turn the lights off when you're comfy in bed cannot be overstated. Philips Hue has long been one of the forerunners in the smart lighting industry, and now the company is releasing two new 24-hour scenes that will slowly shift and change throughout the day.

Of all the phones released in 2024, I don't think anyone would've predicted that the iPhone 16 would lead the industry in the sheer amount of buttons plastered all over a device. While Android phones have mostly abandoned shortcut keys, Apple has added not one, but two new buttons to the iPhone since its 2023 refresh. Meanwhile, most mainstream Android devices have stuck to a simple combination of power and volume buttons, leaving physical shortcuts to the company that previously considered dropping those hardware keys altogether.

Being able to use your voice to get things done can be a real game changer, especially if you're someone that doesn't always have their hands free. We've seen countless apps, operating systems, and services utilize this, allowing users to ask questions or utilize voice commands to make life easier. However, the process isn't always as seamless as we'd like it to be, requiring multiple interactions when trying to get simple things done.

After making it easier than ever to swap between accounts on the YouTube app for Android TVs and introducing the Stable volume feature on Android TV and Google TV, the streaming giant is now making yet another change that simply makes sense, this time, in the form of a more prominent subscribe button in the player's UI on the YouTube app for smart TVs.

Despite making some of the best Android smartphones, Google's actual market share has historically lagged. Although the company reached record sales in 2023, shipping 10 million devices, its market presence in the US has remained only a fraction of Apple's and Samsung's. However, a recent report reveals that Google achieved an impressive 3x growth in North America in just one month.