Google will bring its Waze and maps teams together to cut costs, reduce overlap

Google hopes to reduce overlap work in its mapping apps by merging the Waze and Maps teams. Waze's 500 employees will be part of Google's Geo organization, which oversees Maps, Earth, and Street View. There will be no layoffs as part of the reorganization, but Waze CEO Neha Parikh is expected to leave the role after the transition. Waze will continue to work as a separate app. The merge is expected to start today, December 9.

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Sonos, Ikea launched a new floor lamp speaker

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Sonos and Ikea have a new addition to their collaborative Symfonisk product lineup. This time, it's a new floor-standing lamp speaker that will come to Ikea stores and website starting January for US$260 (around CA$354). The design resembles the second-generation Symfonisk lamp speaker but with longer legs that extend down to a circular base. This new speaker lamp comes with a bamboo lampshade, but you can buy replacement designs using different textures and materials.

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This might be what the Pixel Fold looks like

New leaks have surfaced which appear to be Google's long-rumoured foldable phone. Leaker OnLeaks and the website HowToiSolve to share renders, a 360-degree video, and measurements. As its being called now, the Google Pixel Fold will reportedly have a 5.79-inch cover screen and a larger 7.69-inch inner display, making it work like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4. Unfolded, the Google’s device will be “roughly” 158.7 x 139.7 x 5.7mm. If you compare with the Fold4, it's 155.1 x 130.1 x 6.3mm, so expect the Pixel foldable to be bigger.

It'll sport the large camera bar, and the front cover screen has a selfie camera. The foldable will reportedly run on Google's Tensor G2 chip. It'll come in silver and black. Release date is pegged at May 2023 with a starting price of US$1,799 (around CA$2,449).

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Motorola Edge 30 Fusion comes in Pantone Color of the Year's Viva Magenta

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The Motorola Edge 30 Fusion is coming later in the US, but it gets a limited edition colour. Motorola's partnership with Pantone means the phone is getting a Viva Magenta colour option, which is the company's Color of the Year for 2023.

The phone's specs are the same as its global counterpart, but it comes with a bundled pair of Moto Buds 600 ANC TWS earbuds. It won't come in Viva Magenta, but it will come in Winetasting, "a hue designed to complement the Pantone Color of the Year 2023." This special edition phone retails for US$799.99 (around CA$1,087), but the more typical Neptune Blue option will be a hundred dollars less and won't come with the earbuds.

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