I don't often pay attention to dev-conferences these days, but every so often something catches my eye.  This time around it was Google's annual I/O event where new devices were announced.  The Pixel 7a looks interesting. It looks like a solid replacement for my aging Moto Z3, but it's still a slab of glass.  It seems like a lot of the cool stuff for this phone is under the hood in Android

This was an interesting video produced by the Verge on IKEA's foray into the smarthome (or home-smart as they call it).  I've noticed their offerings of smart devices over the past year whenever I've visited the local IKEA showroom.  I am intrigued and want to see more from them :-) It's interesting to know that the number of articles in a physical store doesn't go up whenever they