Google Unveils New Hardware, Including a Tablet-Laptop Hybrid and a Tabletop Smart Display

Along with updated Pixel phones, the search giant revealed the Pixel Slate and the Google Home Hub that, for improved privacy, lacks a camera

David Pierce

Oct. 9, 2018 1:55 p.m. ET

Google launched new mobile and home gadgets aimed at ensuring the voice-controlled Google Assistant is never out of shouting distance.

As it battles Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa, Apple Inc.’s Siri and Microsoft Corp.’s Cortana for voice-computing supremacy, the Alphabet Inc. unit unveiled two new Pixel smartphones, a Chromebook that acts as both...