The Pixel 8 Pro’s temperature sensor is only able to measure object temperatures now. Google says it’s working on getting it approved for human temperature sensing, but there’s no timeline for that.

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An infrared thermometer seems like an odd thing to put on a $1,000 smartphone. An infrared thermometer seems like ...

Michael Bizzaco has been writing about and working with consumer tech for well over a decade. With a background in home theater sales, installation and repair, Michael's hands-on reviews, how-to ...

As an important physical parameter that characterizes the state and properties of an object, temperature plays a very important role in our production life. Flexible thin-film temperature sensors, ...

Temperature sensor integrated circuits (ICs) have several advantages over negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistors. For example, temperature sensor ICs have a much more linear response than ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...