At CES today, Panasonic announced a partnership with Amazon that will bring Alexa to your car. Dubbed Alexa Onboard, it works with Panasonic's Skip Gen IVI technology and is meant to make life with your virtual assistant more seamless as yo…
Lees meerMaking your refrigerator the hub of your home is so last CES. This year, it's all about that range. Your cooking range, that is. On Monday, GE Appliances debuted its latest smart home solution, a voice and motion controlled screen that sits…
Lees meerFacebook M is, or was, an artificially-intelligent AI that used human operatives to ensure that its recommendations were on point. "Was," at least, because the social network has revealed that its shutting down the platform on January 19th …
Lees meerLast night, Samsung unveiled its vision for the future of the living room: The Wall, a 146-inch 4K TV made up of MicroLED panels. Yes, Samsung is skipping OLED entirely as it moves beyond its "QLED" LCD technology. The company claims The Wa…
Lees meerSometimes you need to step back to see the big picture, and if your subjects are 249,000 miles apart, you need to step waaay back. Luckily, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is moving rapidly away from us and was recently just in the right position…
Lees meerFacebook has signed a deal with Sony that will let you upload videos containing its music without worrying about them being taken down, Variety reports. Users will be able to upload and share videos on Facebook, Oculus and Instagram that wi…
Lees meerThe news of CES is mobility and Japanese automaker Toyota isn't about to be left out. At the annual consumer electronics conference the company that brought us the Prius announced its mobile marketplace, e-Palette meant to open up opportuni…
Lees meerGoogle's payment strategy has been more than a little confusing. It originally offered tap-to-pay under the Google Wallet badge, but it moved that functionality to Android Pay while turning Google Wallet into a money transfer service. Tha…
Lees meerAfter a fair amount of teasing, LG is ready to take the wraps off of its 2018 4K TV lineup -- and in many ways, it's an evolution of what you saw last year. Its flagship OLED lines (the Signature-badged W8 and more conventional E8) and the …
Lees meerOne of the reasons that automakers are pursuing self-driving cars is that, while they'll initially be too expensive to put up for sale to individuals, ride-hailing services (aka mobility) offer the technology the chance to mature in a way t…
Lees meerThe two things you can count on are death and taxes, so the saying goes. We'd suggest an addition to that list: a slew of new technology pouring out of CES each January. The world's largest electronics show is about to commence in earnest, …
Lees meerDay Zero of CES 2018 is here and it's LG who is kicking off the tech hoopla. We'll likely see the company introduce some new OLED TVs and possibly even a smartphone, the "raspberry red" V30. Aside from that, you can expect LG to show off pr…
Lees meerBragi's appearance at this year's CES isn't about an updated pair of earbuds. At least, not yet. It's taking its audio tech in a new, health-based direction, working with Mimi Hearing Technologies to create personalised hearing enhancement.…
Lees meerPerhaps one of the best developments for tech consumers over the last few years has been the arrival of very cheap, surprisingly feature-rich 4K TVs from companies like Vizio. That trend continues this year at CES 2018, as Westinghouse has …
Lees meerGoPro still isn't in the best of health, and that's leading it to make some tough decisions about its future. The action camera maker has confirmed that it's cutting nearly 300 jobs (from 1,254 to "fewer than 1,000"), and is exiting the dr…
Lees meerAt last year's CES, drone newcomer UVify made a splash with its speedy Draco racing quad. So much so, we awarded it the "Best Drone" in the official Best of CES awards. This year, the team is back with a new quadcopter called Oori, and it p…
Lees meerTradeshows can grind you down. Yes, CES 2018 hasn't even started, but I can always do with a little moment of chill, however fleeting. Aurasens' "visceral, trans-sensory journey" beckoned me with its offer of a little lie-down, free eye-mas…
Lees meerConsumers have been living with multiple wireless charging standards for six years, but those annoying times are nearly over. Powermat, the only contender to the dominant format Qi, has joined the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and now bac…
Lees meerBefore the Pro, One and Air, Insta360 was already known for its relatively affordable 360 camera dongle, Nano, for iOS devices since 2016. For this CES, the Chinese startup brought out a Nano S which makes use of the same form factor (so it…
Lees meerGoogle's not having the best start to the year, as it's already been called out, yet again, for unscrupulous advertising practices. An investigation by The Sunday Times shed light on a significant money-making machine, which played out thro…
Lees meerCES is flush with giant TVs, smart fridges, and plenty of other superfluous nonsense. So it was a breath of fresh air when a company called Sproutel and Aflac showed up with a robot duck designed to comfort children with cancer. The My Spec…
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