The Morning After: Our verdict on the Pixel 9a

The Morning After: Our verdict on the Pixel 9a

Google is back with another entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 9a. With more AI smarts, a new hardware design, and the biggest battery on any Pixel yet, on paper, it sounds good. Especially the sub-$500 price tag. In our full Pixel 9a review, Sam Rutherford breaks down where corners have been cut compared to the rest … Read more

Lucid to buy Nikola’s Arizona EV facilities after the latter’s bankruptcy

Lucid Motors has announced that it’s acquiring certain facilities in Arizona owned by Nikola, an EV truck maker that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection back in February. It will also offer more than 300 former Nikola employees jobs across its facilities in the state, including roles in engineering, software, assembly, vehicle testing and warehouse … Read more

Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9a review and bracing for tariffs

This week, Engadget’s Sam Rutherford dives into his experience with Google’s new $499 mid-range smartphone, the Pixel 9a. Is it really the new mid-range king, as we previously predicted? Or is it worth spending more for the Pixel 9? Also, we chat about how the Trump administration’s volatile tariff strategy will affect consumer technology (not … Read more

Tech founder charged with fraud for ‘AI’ that was secretly overseas contract workers

The US Department of Justice has indicted Albert Sangier for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate financial technology platform. Founded by Sangier in 2018, Nate claimed it could offer shoppers a universal checkout app thanks to artificial intelligence. However, the indictment states that the so-called AI-powered transactions in Nate were actually completed by … Read more

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