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The best new tech from the past 12 months

At Tech Advisor we live and breathe gadgets and spend all our time testing them out to tell you which ones to buy. Now it’s that time of year when we look back at the past 12 months and decide which new models deserve to be crowned the best of the...

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The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is off to an explosive start (and not in a good way)

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold foldable phone has been put through a popular stress test, with spectacular results. Google’s latest high-end foldable was recently put through the usual suite of torture tests by YouTube channel JerryRigEverything – and...

Latest Pixel Drop has an Android 16 overhaul for older Google phones

Google has announced its latest Pixel Drop software update, and the headline addition is the shiny new Material 3 Expressive UI coming to older Pixel smartphones. Material 3 Expressive made its debut with the Google Pixel 10 range, and it’s good to...

Google still hasn’t fixed its Pixel 6 Pro camera woes in Android 16

The Pixel 6 Pro’s camera is still broken following Google’s latest Android 16 update, according to reports. Ever since the initial launch of the Android 16 beta some six months ago, Google Pixel 6 Pro users have reported crashes when attempting to...

Android and ChromeOS are merging, and it can’t come soon enough

Google plans to combine its Android and ChromeOS software platforms, it has been confirmed. In an interview with TechRadar, Google’s President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat revealed the fact that company was looking to integrate its two major...

Flagship Android phone performance could look very different by 2027

We haven’t even heard anything solid about the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 smartphone chip yet – keep your eyes peeled for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit on 23 September – but we’re already receiving some fascinating information about its potential...

One UI 8 is coming sooner than you think

Samsung has revealed when One UI 8 could be set to launch, and it’s probably sooner than you think. With Google set to launch Android 16 earlier than expected in June, the onus is now on third-party manufacturers to come up with an Android 16-based UI...

Samsung may have just fixed a major foldable problem… for Apple

Samsung may have fixed one of the biggest problems with foldable phones, and Apple could be ready to benefit. According to a recent report in Business Korea (tinyurl.com/yzpkdbw7), Apple has decided to go with Samsung Display as the exclusive...

Tech Advisor’s Best of MWC25 Awards

Another year, another trip to Barcelona to wade through seas of suited executives to find exciting products at MWC25. Mobile World Congress is the most exciting tech trade show for us at Tech Advisor. It’s where all the latest and greatest...

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Windows Copilot+ PCs aren’t there yet: 9 must-change upgrades for 2025

It seems like every new laptop lately is a ‘Windows Copilot+ PC’. With Intel’s Lunar Lake and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 CPUs, AI-infused Copilot+ PCs have finally expanded into traditional x86 laptop territory. They aren’t limited to just Arm-powered laptops...

Best smartwatch

Smartwatches are one of the best bits of tech you can buy right now, providing you with almost endless amounts of convenient features on your wrist. These are the best smartwatches. This guide contains our top 10 expert picks from the wearable market....

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iPhone 16 and 16 Pro are packed with upgrades led by AI and Camera Control

The new iPhones are here, and they’re all about two things: Apple Intelligence and improved camera capabilities. And while Apple is focusing on those things first and foremost, you can expect better performance, battery life, and loads of other...

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A hacker just leaked 10 billion passwords. Here’s what to do now

Hacking into an account doesn’t always require deep expertise in exploiting vulnerabilities. Sometimes it’s a simple as taking leaked information and placing it elsewhere on the Internet. That’s why the release of massive password collections are...

Microsoft retreats on Recall – always-on screenshots will be opt-in

Microsoft has made a big push for its ‘Copilot+’ program, enhancing Windows with new AI powers enabled by the latest processors and NPUs. But one of the headline features, Recall, immediately raised privacy concerns as it demonstrated an ability to...

Opinion: Google is building an AI future, but not for you and me

The difference between the real world and the AI world is a flight of a dozen stairs. In my basement office, I listened to what Google presented at Google I/O. I heard executives talk about search, Android, and Project Astra: a future multi-modal...