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we hosted our very own Smart Home Week to celebrate the latest and greatest tech in the smart home sector and give you tips on how to use your gadgets more effectively.
We also saw the arrival of some brilliant new Bluetooth speakers, a Surface Pro that finally gives the iPad Pro a run for its money and several event date announcements from Prime Day to the Pixel 9 launch event.
So, in case you missed it, here are the seven biggest tech news stories from the past seven days.7. We hosted Smart Home Week 2024
We launched our new Smart Home Week for 2024, where we’ve given you all the hottest tips and tricks for setting up and making the most of your smart home. This includes guides on how to set up and use Alexa sound detection and our thoughts on new products like this Bird Buddy smart bird feeder.
We’ve also asked experts for insights into how safe smart home security cameras really are and challenged both Google and Apple to step up to the plate with new hardware before Amazon pulls even further ahead in the race to dominate the smart home market.
Read more: Everything from Smart Home Week 20246. We reviewed the Surface Pro 11 – and called it the best Surface ever
Thanks to its “snappy performance, excellent battery life, improved compatibility, and new AI-powered apps that will only get better with time”, we’ve already dubbed the new Microsoft Surface Pro 11 the best surface ever.
Starting at $999.99 /£1,049.99 / AU$1,899.99 this tablet isn’t a mere tablet; it’s a bonafide Windows 11 OS-powered machine with a 10-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip, 2.8K LCD display, 16GB RAM, and 256GB SSD – though you can upgrade to a model with a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite chip, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD starting at $1,499.99 / £1,549 / AU$2,699.
This is the first proper competition the iPad Pro has ever had, and as we say in our review, “Apple should absolutely be worried.”
Read more: Our Microsoft Surface Pro 11 review5. Prime Day 2024 dates were revealed
After accidentally leaking the dates for Prime Day 2024, Amazon officially confirmed that Amazon Prime Day will take place on July 16 – 17 in the US and UK.
