Gadgets

[ad_1] Smart garage door controllers make getting out the door to work or coming home at the end of the day safer and more seamless. With features like automatic opening and closing, scheduling, user management and voice commands, your garage can be as automated as the rest of your smart ...

[ad_1] If your luck is anything like mine, as soon as you jump on an important call, someone decides it’s a great time to blow some leaves off the sidewalk outside your window. 2Hz’s Krisp is a new desktop app that uses machine learning to subtract background noise like that, ...

[ad_1] Maybe this is a Marvel replacement?Netflix superhero show ‘The Umbrella Academy’ debuts February 15th As with the comic, the series is based on the strange premise of 43 children being born to women who hadn’t been pregnant the day before; seven of the children are adopted by a billionaire ...

[ad_1] Even before I opened the box, the LG Xboom AI WK9 Smart Display had a lot going against it. It’s late to the game — Lenovo, JBL and more recently, Google already have similar smart displays with Google Assistant built in. It’s expensive — $300 as opposed to $150 ...

[ad_1] This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we’re not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news. There’ll be three days of news and the company decided to start with a focus on ...

[ad_1] Will Computers Revolt? Charles J. Simon Consciousness and free will have long been the hallmarks of human intelligence, what sets us apart from “lower” forms of life. But as artificial intelligences grow increasingly advanced, the gap between biological and mechanical minds continues to shrink. Although machines can’t currently express ...

[ad_1] It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the $74,800 2019 Audi E-Tron. As the company’s first full-production modern EV, it’d be easy to look on it as something of an experiment. That, however, would be wrong. In reality, the new E-Tron is the tip of the spear — a ...

[ad_1] Leica’s pricey — but sexy — CL camera is the closest thing you can get to an original portable luxury shooter without spending more than a used Toyota Corolla. The CL, which launched last year, is essentially a pared-down M series camera that has gotten rave reviews over the ...

[ad_1] Every day is the same day.Google’s messaging app strategy is still a mess Google’s lineup of messaging apps has always been chaotic. Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Wave, Google+ Hangouts, the version of Hangouts that supported SMS — the list is long and needlessly complicated. Worse, its approach to ...

[ad_1] Deciding which AV receiver to buy is about choosing one set of features over another. Among units I’ve tested in the $400 range, this Onkyo is the one to choose for the sole reason that it has the best features. Hang on, shouldn’t it be about sound quality first? ...