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What if your drone could talk to your car? That’s probably not a question you’ve asked yourself all that often, but what if you are the United Nations or a search-and-rescue organization that wants to launch drones from the bed of their pickup trucks? Ford and DJI today announced a new developer challenge that asks developers to create drone-to-vehicle communications using… Read More... →

GUEST: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking intense fire in India over an initiative that his organization Internet.org launched to provide limited Internet access to the masses. He seems genuine in his desire to bring digital equality to the world: In an op-ed for The Times of India, he defended this initiative, called Free Basics, citing the example of […]... →

Withings, the company behind the remarkably sensible Activite smartwatch line, debuted a new product today at CES: a smart thermometer. The doodad, named Thermo, is incredibly anti-climactic. It’s a simple object, easy on the eyes, adorned with a scrolling dot matrix-style display and a single button. It checks your temperature. Then it tells your phone your temperature, and […]... →

Although virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have existed in some form for decades, only recently have they garnered mainstream attention. VR is blowing up right now, and its content and hardware advances have been exciting to watch. VR will gain ascendancy throughout 2016, but my money’s on AR becoming the dominant technology in our daily lives. Read More... →

Posted by randfishIt's that magical time where, once again, I examine my predictions for the year that's just ended, and make new ones for the one ahead. As is my personal tradition, I'm going to first look at the accuracy of what I've suggested would happen in 2015. Based on how I've done, you can get a sense of how seriously to take my ideas for the future. But, if you'd prefer, you can just skip right to the 2016 predictions. For posterity, here's my post from January 6, 2015, but I won't make you go thr... →

Netatmo just announced the Netatmo Presence, a new smart outdoor security camera packed with actually useful features. In particular, this camera can detect if there’s a car in your driveway, a person waiting outside or a pet running around your garden. Read More... →

You may know Withings for its beautiful smart watches, but the company has had a long history of health tracking devices. The $100 Withings Thermo is keeping up with this trend. It’s a smart temporal artery thermometer, and arguably the best thermometer you can get today. Read More... →

Netatmo has revealed the Presence, a smart outdoor security camera that will send you an alert if someone is loitering around your house, if a pet is in the yard, or if a car enters your driveway. The product is one more piece of the smart home, which is expected to become a $71 billion […]... →

Parrot is probably best known for its drones, but the company actually offers a wide range of products that also includes headphones and in-car infotainment technology. Last year at CES, Parrot first showed its robotic plant pot. At the time, that was just a prototype, but now the company is ready to launch this new product line in the first quarter of 2016. Read More... →

Worldwide growth of tech goods is slowing in 2016, thanks in no small part to a slowdown in China. That’s the forecast from a key research analyst in advance of the 2016 International CES. In 2016, global tech spending will be $950 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago, thanks to the strong dollar […]... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud currently available, today announced the general availability of the WorkMail email and calendar service, nearly a year after the service was first launched in preview. Think of WorkMail as Amazon’s answer to Exchange from Microsoft, which fields the competing Azure cloud infrastructure, and Gmail from Google, which […]... →

When you think of consumer drones, chances are you are thinking of quadcopters. But fixed-wing drones have long been a staple of the military and the model aircraft community and now Parrot, which pioneered the quadcopter craze with its AR.Drone, is getting into the fixed-wing game, too. The 700 gram Parrot Disco, which the company has been working on for the last two years, is a small… Read More... →

At the end of November, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene. Today, the company filed paperwork with the SEC revealing the purchase price: $380,241,352 to be precise. The move was believed to be as much about bringing in Greene to lead its enterprise cloud effort as the bebop technology itself.  Little is… Read More... →

Some consolidation in the world of gaming and specifically e-sports. Today Activision Blizzard confirmed that it has acquired Major League Gaming, a specialist in live gaming events. The news follows reports over the weekend that Activision would be buying MLG for $46 million and shuttering the business. In the event, Activision is only partly confirming these details. No word on price, and… Read More... →

The 2016 International Consumer Electronics Show kicked off, at least for the press, with an analysis of the trends that are driving the tech universe. Shawn Dubravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association, the trade group that puts on CES (the big tech trade show this week in Las Vegas), said (for the second year […]... →

Google’s umbrella company, Alphabet, today disclosed that it paid $380.2 million to buy Bebop, the startup from VMware cofounder and former chief executive Diane Greene. Greene, who sits on Alphabet’s board of directors and is now in charge of Google’s cloud businesses as a result of the acquisition, isn’t keeping a huge percentage of the […]... →

Just weeks after announcing its esports division, Activision Blizzard has acquired the assets of live esports event organizer Major League Gaming for an estimated $46 million. The move is part of a larger plan to create the Activision Blizzard esports broadcast network, or the “ESPN of esports.” The move is a recognition of the growing […]... →

Whoops. Faraday Future — the super mysterious electric car company that no one really seems to know much about — is all set to debut something tonight… and it seems that something might’ve just leaked. An app called “Faraday Future Concept” briefly hit the app store this morning, complete with concept images and slides describing a “1000… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Even with the rise of cloud storage, the USB flash drive is still vital for cases where the Internet won’t cut it, especially as CDs and DVDs die off. Not only are USB drives typically higher in capacity than disc media, they are faster for copying data such as setup files, and have much quicker […]... →