MKBHD is back once again for the 2021 smartphone awards. After the blind camera test last week, where the iPhone 13 Pro was beaten by the $399 Pixel 5a, he is back picking the best phone in nine different categories, ending with the overall ‘Phone of the Year.’ Before starting the awards, he had a moment of silence for LG, which stopped making smartphones this year. There are nine categories…

In the coming days, many people will be setting up new phones that they received as presents. Google has released a video in ASL that walks those that are “hard of hearing or profoundly Deaf” through helpful Pixel accessibility features like Live Transcribe and Caption. This video is not specific to the Pixel 6 lineup and covers functionality that all modern Google phones feature, though…

Following many other tech companies in recent days, Waymo and Google announced today that it’s no longer having an in-person presence at CES 2022 due to the “quickly evolving COVID infection rates.” Update 1:38 p.m. PT: Google is following Waymo in pulling its show floor presence — usually a large booth outside — at CES 2022. All announcements will be done virtually. “After careful…