TCL’s Roku TVs are very successful, so it’s not too surprising to see the closely-aligned companies collaborating on the first soundbar to feature the Entertainment Assistant recently announced by Roku. Today at CES, Roku offered a preview of the soundbar that it’s plainly brandi … | Continue reading
TCL’s P-Series was hands down the best TV you could buy for under $1,000 in 2017. It offered fantastic image quality with full-array local dimming, both Dolby Vision and HDR10, and Roku’s easy-to-use software in a package priced between $599 and $650. (The $50 difference depended … | Continue reading
Today at CES, Panasonic announced it has worked with Google on a new generation of automotive infotainment systems, and at the same time is working with Amazon to give in-car Alexa capabilities. The company’s automotive division says the latest version of Skip Generation In-Vehic … | Continue reading
Nvidia announced a beta for its GeForce Now game streaming service for the Mac last year, and now it’s finally coming to Windows PCs. Starting this week, beta users of the GeForce Now Mac client will be able to install and run the Windows app. This brings the beta service far bey … | Continue reading
Sprint, partnering with Dynamics Inc., has come up with a battery-powered payment card. The card functions as a debit, credit, prepaid, multi-currency, or loyalty card, depending on the user’s preference.The card is the same size and shape as a normal credit card, but it has almo … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Twitter users — including some climate scientists — were upset by a plaque at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, which seems to be spreading misinformation about climate change. The panel, titled “Recent Climatic Changes and Extinctions,” … | Continue reading
On the first day of CES, JBL has announced several new headphones, earphones, and speakers, including the Everest headphones that are compatible with the Google Assistant. JBL, known for making pretty decent headphones, is actually owned by Samsung through parent company Harman I … | Continue reading
It’s not terribly easy to go to a casino in Las Vegas and come back without losing any money, but this week I pulled it off. The trick? I never even got out of the car that brought me there. I was in a BMW 540i that was riddled with self-driving technology from British company Ap … | Continue reading
The dream of whizzing through an airless tube that is hundreds of miles long from one city to the next at near-supersonic speeds just got a little more real. Today, Virgin Hyperloop One unveiled its new app, promising an end-to-end passenger experience when (and if) it ultimately … | Continue reading
The fourth season of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, a Twilight Zone-esque anthology TV series about technological anxieties and possible futures, was released on Netflix on December 29th, 2017. In this series, six writers will look at each of the fourth season’s six episodes to … | Continue reading
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has mustered the 30 votes necessary to force a vote on the FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) announced that she’s signed onto Markey’s request to overturn the new rules, under the Congressional Review Act — which let … | Continue reading
Last week, Hisense announced that it’d be bringing Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant to some of its 2018 TV lineup. But here at CES 2018, Hisense has taken the wraps off its new products, and with a surprising twist: while several TVs in the lineup are getting Amazon’s virtual assis … | Continue reading
Celina Mikolajczak, a senior manager for battery pack development at Tesla, has been hired by Uber to help the ride-hail company’s “flying car” project get off the ground. It’s an important hire because it signals that Uber plans to get more involved in the engineering aspects of … | Continue reading
The author of the controversial memo that upended Google in August is suing the company, alleging that white, male conservatives are systematically discriminated against by Google.James Damore was fired as an engineer after a manifesto questioning the benefits of diversity progra … | Continue reading
In the weeks leading up to last night’s Golden Globes, the organized “protest” planned by the actors and creatives set to attend the ceremony seemed halfhearted at best, and at worst, downright stupid. More than 700,000 female farmworkers instigated a laudable, coordinated campai … | Continue reading
Apple has released three new security updates aimed at protecting Safari and WebKit from the Spectre attack. The three updates make changes to iOS, macOS, and Safari itself, but in each case, the stated goal is protecting Safari and the underlying browser engine against attacks e … | Continue reading
GoPro, the action camera maker that has struggled financially since entering the public markets, is putting itself up for sale, CNBC reported today. The company has hired JPMorgan to explore options for a sale, according to the report. The announcement comes on the same day that … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since the kitchen landscape changed. There’s the fridge, the stove, the microwave, and maybe a number of smaller gadgets to accompany them. But now, GE Appliances has a new idea: it wants to add in a huge, 27-inch touchscreen tablet that’ll sit right above the s … | Continue reading
A Chinese startup called Ryze Tech is selling an affordable drone with technology from Intel and DJI. The $99 Tello is a tiny machine with a camera that can capture 360-degree video and stream live footage to a tablet, or to an unspecified selection of third-party VR headsets. It … | Continue reading
Toyota, the biggest automaker maker in the world, announced an ambitious plan today to tackle mobility and delivery services in the age of autonomous cars. Apparently, it involves weird, see-through self-driving boxes roaming through cities, delivering people, packages, and pizza … | Continue reading
Facebook M, the text-based virtual assistant that used human workers to train an artificial intelligence system, is ending the human-assisted part of the service after two and a half years. The human-enhanced version of M, which was available through a bot on Facebook Messenger, … | Continue reading
Facebook and Sony / ATV Music Publishing have agreed to a deal that allows Facebook users to upload music in their videos, Bloomberg reports. Facebook and Universal Music Group signed a similar licensing agreement back in December.Discussions between Facebook and music labels hav … | Continue reading
Matching its $99 Lightning and Bluetooth cable options, Shure has announced at CES 2018 the launch of a new $99 USB-C replacement cable for its family of high-end in-ear headphones. Along with making microphones good enough for presidential addresses, Shure sells some of the best … | Continue reading
Petnet has debuted SmartFeeder 2.0, the next generation of its automatic pet feeder. The new feeder builds upon many of the features from the first version of the SmartFeeder, focusing on refined design choices and further integration with smart home devices.The SmartFeeder 2.0 l … | Continue reading
Anker is exiting the last stage of its crowdfunding campaign for its Zolo line of wireless earbuds with a final consumer retail release of the Liberty+ headphones, which go on sale later this month for $149.99. The news, announced today at CES, means that consumers who’ve been ho … | Continue reading
Jabra has announced a trio of headphones to kickstart a brand new “Elite” franchise. These are the Elite 65t, a completely wireless in-ear pair; an “active” version of the Elite 65t, specially optimized for sport; and a Bluetooth — but not fully wired — variant, dubbed the Elite … | Continue reading
Electric scooters and skateboards are a big draw at the mini-exhibitions that happen within big trade shows like CES. At this year’s CES Unveiled, two of them stood out. First, the UJet. It’s another take on the idea of a smart, foldable, electric scooter, though it’s closer to s … | Continue reading
In one of CES’s stranger announcements, Nanoleaf has introduced what’s essentially a giant 12-sided die that controls your home. You just set the die down, and it’ll set your smart home gadgets to some predetermined configuration.The product is called the Nanoleaf Remote, and it’ … | Continue reading
Ring started out with video doorbells and lots and lots of security cameras, but now the company is expanding into a related but less obviously security-focused field: lighting.The smart camera maker is announcing today that it has acquired Mr Beams, a small company that’s been m … | Continue reading
Segway-Ninebot, which owns Segway Robotics, first showed off its Segway Advanced Personal Robot back in 2016, and the product has slowly evolved since then. The Lego-style arms are gone, the bot is now known as Loomo, and there’s a version for developers that’s already shipping. … | Continue reading
There’s no Google Assistant device with a screen like the Echo Show, but Philips has hacked together the next best thing at CES this year, grafting a 24-inch Android TV panel onto a Bluetooth speaker with an integrated microphone that’s meant to live on your kitchen counter. And … | Continue reading
Postcards, delightful as they are to receive, take a lot of time and effort for the sender. If I go on vacation and want to send one to my friends, I have to find the perfect card, figure out the local postage fees, and search for a post office to send it from. (That, or I bring … | Continue reading
After commercially launching its wallpaper OLED TV at least year’s CES, LG’s 2018 showing was bound to be a little less flashy. And yes, the TVs themselves look largely similar to their 2017 predecessors. The best one you can buy is still the Signature “wallpaper” TV that mounts … | Continue reading
Google just announced that it’s combining all of its different payment services, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into one unified service, simply called Google Pay. With the new system, payment information saved in your Google account will be available everywhere you use … | Continue reading
WikiLeaks is promoting a pirated copy of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a bestselling book on Donald Trump’s first year in office. Yesterday, it tweeted a Google Drive link described as a full PDF of Fire and Fury. It deleted that tweet, but re-posted the link with an added degre … | Continue reading
Traveling is supposed to be a luxurious experience, but the reality of travel is beyond what you see on the internet. Smart luggage is supposed to change all that by letting you keep track of your bags and help you feel at ease at the airport. Last week 90Fun announced an autonom … | Continue reading
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin showed off shiny, new footage today of its next-generation rocket engine igniting during a recent test — and the video is the perfect way to pump yourself up on this Monday morning. In the video, the engine releases a large plume of blue an … | Continue reading
What if the next couch you bought had a chip inside that relayed information to the rest of your home? I have no idea what that chip might do or why you’d want it, but the possibility of a smart couch is moving closer reality thanks to the smart home system Z-Wave.The company beh … | Continue reading
Triva app HQ is moving worldwide. As spotted by The Next Web, the app has launched in the UK with questions specific to its culture and politics. Where HQ in the states is typically hosted by Scott Rogowsky, British host Sharon Carpenter will quiz players every Monday and Wednesd … | Continue reading
Today’s the official Media Day at CES 2018, which means we’re going to be in a ton of press conference rooms with a ton of keynote speeches by a ton of tech companies. Most will be unveiling new giant televisions and monitors, though we will also see some car tech from carmakers … | Continue reading
Two of the best pairs of earphones over the past year have been 1More’s $99 Triple Driver and $199 Quad Driver. Both struck the correct balance between price, performance, ergonomics, and aesthetics, and I still recommend them with little reservation. But what they lacked was the … | Continue reading
Nest and Yale have been working together on a smart lock for a couple years now, but 2018 is the year it’s finally supposed to come out. Yale is announcing today that the Nest x Yale smart lock will be available for preorder starting next month and will begin to ship in March. Pr … | Continue reading
In 2016, Belkin announced Phyn, a new company that would focus on creating products for smart water management in partnership with plumbing and infrastructure company Uponor. Now, at CES 2018, Phyn is announcing its first consumer product, the Phyn Plus, a smart water monitoring … | Continue reading
Asus teamed up with one of the biggest names in e-sports, the Korean League of Legends team SKT T1, to make a new addition to the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Strix laptop line. The ROG Strix SKT T1 Hero Edition sounds like quite the mouthful, but it’s a gaming laptop that is designe … | Continue reading
Two large Apple shareholders are questioning the smartphone maker, saying it needs to respond to what’s seen as a “growing public health crisis” of smartphone addiction in young people, reports The Wall Street Journal. Activist investors Jana Partners and the California State Tea … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since the kitchen landscape changed — there’s the fridge, the stove, the microwave, and maybe a number of smaller gadgets to accompany them. But now, GE Appliances has a new idea: it wants to add in a huge, 27-inch touchscreen tablet that’ll sit right above the … | Continue reading
Back in 2016, The Verge selected JLab Audio’s Epic2 as the best headphones for running, and now the company is back with a new version of the excellent earbuds. The Epic Sport comes with improved and customizable sound profiles, and better waterproofing. One of our biggest compla … | Continue reading
GoPro has announced that it’s exiting the drone business, citing the challenges of turning a profit in an “extremely competitive” market. The company revealed the news during its most recent earnings report today, saying that its Karma drone would be the last it would make. The c … | Continue reading