The Android Show, Rad Power's New Ebikes, and Yale's ADT Smart Lock—Your Gear News of the Week

Google's yearly I/O developer league is coming up connected May 20—and each signs constituent to it being a large one.

It's wherever we typically larn everything caller coming to Android, Google's Gemini artificial quality assistant, and each of the company's different platforms, from Wear OS to Android Auto. But this week, Google announced a virtual lawsuit called The Android Show: I/O Edition, which takes spot a week earlier, connected May 13 astatine 10 americium Pacific (1 p.m. ET). A teaser video showed Google's Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem, getting acceptable connected camera and announcing the show.

The Android Show volition apt research each the caller features coming to Android 16, the adjacent mentation of Google's mobile operating system. However, this interruption from the accepted process of announcing each the latest successful Android astatine I/O suggests that the league connected May 20 volition beryllium jam-packed with quality successful different areas and services.

Last year, Android took a backseat to Gemini-related capabilities arsenic unit mounted for Google to amusement its reply to OpenAI's ChatGPT. This year, we'll apt spot features related to idiosyncratic discourse successful Gemini—the assistant's quality to recognize you done past conversations and your connected Google services similar Gmail and Calendar. It's besides wide expected that we'll larn much about Google's Android XR, and possibly get an update connected the company's upcoming astute glasses.

Rad Power Bikes Debuts a New RadRunner Lineup

The direct-to-consumer institution Rad Power Bikes, which much oregon little created the full DTC electrical motorcycle class and dominated it for years, has struggled recently, from layoffs and lawsuits to the caller quiescent exit of its caller CEO and an onslaught of tariffs. In this chaotic environment, the institution has announced 3 caller updates to its best-selling ebikes: the RadRunner, the RadRunner Plus, and the caller RadRunner Max.

The RadRunner and RadRunner Plus are the company’s 2 fashionable inferior bikes (I spot a half-dozen each time portion biking astir Portland, Oregon) and upgrades to the enactment volition see information features similar Rad Power’s Safe Shield, which debuted past twelvemonth (the cells successful the artillery are present encapsulated, similar successful a car, to marque it safer successful the improbable lawsuit of a artillery fire). They volition besides see different upgrades, similar passcode extortion and IPX6 upwind protection.

The astir breathtaking motorboat is the RadRunner Max, present the high-end RadRunner model, which is simply a Class 3 electrical bike. It’s pedal-assist only, with a apical velocity of 28 mph. It has 60 miles of scope and works with Apple’s Find My network, truthful you tin way if it's stolen, nary AirTag needed. A caller integer cardinal unlocks the motorcycle arsenic you approach, and radar features alert you erstwhile cars oregon different bikes approach. The institution besides debuted a caller scope extender compatible with each 3 models. The RadRunner is disposable for $1,499, and the RadRunner Plus is $1,799. You tin preorder the RadRunner Max for $2,299 and the Range Extender for $249 for transportation successful aboriginal May. —Adrienne So

Yale’s Latest Lock Has a New Kind of Z-Wave

Yale, known for its astute locks (and regular locks, too), has announced a caller mentation of its Assure Lock 2 tied to a heavy concern with location information marque ADT. It brings a caller benignant of Z-Wave exertion into play.