This week was full of major messages. Google highlighted (potentially) iPhone 16E, which beat Google Pixel 9A, we reviewed Assassin’s Creed Shadow and loved it, and Nvidia highlighted an actual Star Wars -Drroid in real life.
To catch up with all that and more, you can roll down to watch the seven biggest tech news of the week that you don’t want to miss.
When you’re up to speed, you can check out our choices for the 7 new movies and TV shows for stream this weekend (March 22).
1. Google Pixel 9a Bread Coverage
Google took the pixel 9A tires this week, finally giving us an official look at its latest budget phone. At a quick look, you probably won’t notice a huge difference from Pixel 8A, but look at and there are some nice changes.
For starters, the phone’s design has changed with flatter sides and a larger screen – which is also brighter – along with a rear camera setup that avoids the pill -shaped design of Pixel 9 and goes for modules that sit with flushes with the back of the phone.
Under the cap you will find the Google-designed Tensor G4 chip ready to run many Google Gemini activities and generative AI tools. There is also a bigger battery. All this comes at the same price as Pixel 9as’s predecessor, but there is a slight warning, as Google has delayed the release of the phone until once in April due to a mystery “component quality problem”.
2. We found the droid we have been looking for
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Star Wars’ Doids just got a step closer to reality on Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote when Blue joined Jenson Huang on stage to show the company’s new Newton engine. The robot bounded on stage after participants saw a simulated version of DROID digitally exploring the surface of a sandy planet far, far away.
This virtual landscape is what Newton is about. Instead of having to actually build a robot and real environments with a wide range of surface designs and materials to train your robot, with Newton, you can instead construct everything digitally, run the simulation, and AI gradually learns to navigate. Once you have trained the model almost, you can upload this data to a real version of the robot and like NEO training in Matrix Blue, other bots become immediately experts.
During the keynote speaker, Huang also showed a lot of new hardware for developing AI, several humanoid robots and autonomous vehicle technology.
3. Pebble returned with two new smartwatches
It’s a big week for Retro Gadget fans when Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky’s new Core Devices Company revealed two new smartwatches running the now Open Source Pebble OS. Core 2 Duo is a low power smartwatch with four buttons, some basic functionalities, a mip-black-white screen and access to Pebble’s 10,000 third-party apps.
The second watch, core time 2, is an upgraded larger version with a color touchscreen and a heart rate monitor. Of crucial importance, both watches last up to 30 days, impressive 40 times the life of the battery on your average Apple Watch.
While both are limited races, Migicovsky said he will “do more” if they are doing well. Available for pre -ordering is now released both units in July.
4. We reviewed LG C5 OLED tv
We got our hands on one of 2025’s most expected TVs, LG C5 OLED TV. The latest iteration in the ever-popular LG C series we spent a week of C5 and Spoiler alarm; It’s great.
When we earned five out of five stars in our review, we loved LG C5’s amazing image quality, excellent game performance, full package of game features and intuitive smart -tv platform with some useful new AI tools. Even its built -in sound was solid!
To address the elephant in the room, no, it is not so different from its predecessor, LG C4, and although around, C5 looks overpriced. But when C4’s time is up, C5 is a great replacement and is already set to be one of the best TVs of 2025.
5. Deep research went free for use
Deep research is Google Gemini’s AI-driven research assistant. Instead of the usual search and response from the Standard Chatbot model using deep research, Gemini puts together a full report on what you have asked it, including quotes from sources that it analyzes.
It works best if you throw really fleshy questions that need it to consult several sources, such as “What percentage of dogs in the US are puppies?”, For example. It comes with a plan for what research it will take on that you can edit and then produce its report. It may take a few minutes for Gemini to gather a deep research report, but when that happens, you get a document you can open in Google Docs that cover the subject finally.
Best of all, deep research is now free for all Gemini users.
6. Assassin’s Creed came out of the shadows
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out now and is immediately one of our favorites throughout the series. Offers the best open world role-playing games in that line with Creed games, Shadows Gets a terrible very right and not wrong. And I should know after spending more than 40 hours in the game now.
A large part of the game’s success is the implementation and performance of some of the best matches of the series. Both protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke offer different forms of fighting and a unique range of weapons they can use – but each can engage in severely fluid, chunky and hard -hit battle. Whether you cut on enemies with small blades like naoe or smash them about the place with a canobo like yusuke is the battle Shadows is excellent.
Ubisoft Quebec has also considered world exploration and discovery with Shadows and implemented a much more rewarding and satisfactory method to do so. Instead of views revealing a sea of well -known units in the landscape for you, Shadows Gives you only a few points of interest and locations – unmarked, so you have to go and find out what they are. What results is a method of exploring the world that feels rewarding to explore and draw you from place to location, landscape to landscape and region to region.
And while the main story is declining a little, and hiding mode that offers cozy base construction a little something can be a drain, there is just so much to do in Shadows‘Feudal Japan setting, which I will spend dozens of several hours collecting tea sets, painting wildlife, meditating, learning new combinations, executing contracts and murdering evil.
7. LEGO AND POKéMON broke the Internet
Lego and Pokémon broke the Internet this week when everyone’s favorite plastic brick announced a partnership with the world’s most valuable media franchise. For years we have hoped for a Pikachu collaboration with LEGO, and now our dreams seem to be a reality.
Coming in 2026, perfectly timed with the 30 -year anniversary of Pokémon, you may be able to go on “a real LEGO® Pokémon ™ adventure.” Although we do not know which LEGO sets will be made available, the teaser trailer showed Pikachus tail, Pokémon’s mascot is almost a security.
We would not be surprised to see regular releases celebrating the extensive library in Pokémon; After all, there are now over 1,000 species dating back to 1996. With Generation 10 on the horizon and New Nintendo Switch video games set for release this year, it’s definitely an exciting time to be a Pokémon fan.
