PLUS: This smartwatch might save your life.
Google’s next-generation smartphones are here: the Pixel 11 series, along with a new Pixel Watch 5 smartwatch and the Pixel Tag, an AirTag clone but for the Android world. The company announced the new hardware at its annual Made by Google event in New York City on Wednesday. Prices are up for the smartphones, thanks to the memory crisis, and they officially go on sale August 20. There’s a whole lot of AI, from the new speech-to-text mode called Rambler to Magic Capture, which lets Gemini decide what photos to capture when you point your Pixel at a scene, allowing you to stay in the moment.
The Pixel Watch 5 is also the first smartwatch to feature a “Breathing Emergency Detection,” which will call emergency services if the watch detects a drop in oxygen saturation in your blood, caused by events like accidental drug toxicity, choking, or severe pneumonia. It joins new capabilities like blood pressure and insulin resistance trends into a new umbrella category that Google calls “Health Guardian” in the Google Health app. Stay tuned for our reviews of these new gadgets next week.
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By Julian Chokkattu
The Pixel 11 smartphone lineup is here, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 and the all-new Pixel Tag.
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By Julian Chokkattu
From Magic Capture and Instant Night Sight to a built-in teleprompter, here’s a look at a few camera features on Google’s new Pixel 11 series.
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By Julian Chokkattu
The company is also adding blood pressure and insulin resistance trends as proactive monitoring tools in the Google Health app.
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I do not own any property in the physical world, but I certainly have a whole lot of digital estate to my name. And while I’ve definitely spiraled about my own mortality, I can’t say I’ve ever given any thought to what would happen to my photos, emails, messages, Google docs, social media profiles, and Notes app notes upon my death. In fact, I didn’t realize this was something that deserved any thought at all until WIRED published a guide to digital estate planning. If you’re willing to accept your mortality and would rather not burden your surviving family members with the stress of dealing with the remnants of your digital life, read it here. —writes Elana Klein.
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