Google has just announced the Home Hub at its fall hardware event — a new Google Assistant device that looks like it’ll compete with products like Amazon’s Echo Show and the newly announced Facebook Portal by adding a screen to its existing Google Home device lineup, as revealed in an accidentally posted event recap video spotted by David Ruddock.

According to Google, the goal with the Home Hub is to create “a more helpful, thoughtful home,” with the added dimension of being able to see responses from Assistant, instead of just hearing them. Google has revamped services like Search, YouTube, Maps, Calendar, and Photos for Home Hub, to add both voice controls and glanceable information.

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We round up the buzz on Face ID 2.0, USB-C, support for 4K displays — and a new Apple Pencil.

In the latest saga of the never-ending Pixel 3 leaks, Verizon has published its landing page for Google’s latest smartphone early, confirming the release of the Pixel Stand and unlimited photo storage for users who purchase the phone until 2022.

The page, which has since been taken down, showed off new fabric cases that will work with Qi wireless chargers, and it also confirmed that there would be no update to the Pixel Buds, which were released last year.

The page did reveal a new feature that would allow users to screen spam calls and provide real-time transcriptions of those calls, seemingly using Google Assistant. We’ll have to wait a little while for the full description of the feature during the Pixel 3 event, which you can…

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We’re expecting the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, plus a tablet, smart speakers, and more.

Results from the largest study (nearly a million cycles) to investigate the prevalence and causes of multiple pregnancies after single embryo transfer (SET) finds that using frozen thawed embryos for SET, maturing the fertilized egg (blastocyst) in the laboratory for five or six days before SET, and assisted hatching could increase the risk.

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