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VLC, the hugely popular media playing service, is filling one of its gaps with the addition of AirPlay support as it has just crossed an incredible three billion downloads. The new…

VLC prepares to add AirPlay support as it crosses 3 billion downloads

While at CES I try to avoid getting bogged down by dozens of random gadgets, and this time I mostly succeeded — but the mouse reviewer in me was intrigued…

Lexip’s joystick-mouse combo is a strange but promising hybrid

Ziro is a nifty programmable robotics kit for kids that had a successful Indiegogo campaign last year. And the company behind it, ZeroUI, is still adding new features. By default,…

Ziro’s robotics kit for kids now works with Alexa

More than 270 French startups flew all the way to Las Vegas for CES 2018. And France’s Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Mounir Mahjoubi came there to support them.…

France’s Digital Minister Mounir Mahjoubi on French startups
CES 2018

CES sucked this year

I’ve heard tell of people predicting the weather through achy joints. CES isn’t all that different. You get a sixth sense about the show once you’ve been to a few.…

CES sucked this year

This year’s CES happened in the shadow of the Spectre and Meltdown disclosures, and virtually every conversation at the show turned to this topic at some point. Because this was…

ARM’s CEO Simon Segars on Spectre/Meltdown, IoT security and more

Learning braille is a skill that, like most, is best learned at an early age by those who need it. But toddlers with vision impairment often have few or no…

The BecDot is a toy that helps teach vision-impaired kids to read braille

Don’t call Fli Charge wireless charging. Fli Charge is conductive charging. It’s just like plugging something into a wall but uses powered surfaces to distribute power. And thanks to proprietary…

Fli Charge demonstrates its charging pad with Craftsman power tools

MirraViz wants to bring an end to gamers screen-peeking. The startup’s display technology lets different people watch different things on the same projector screen depending on where they’re sitting. The best…

MirraViz is a startup that wants to change split-screen gaming

I’ve been going to CES for almost ten years now, and it amazes me that really, nothing has changed. The same people are saying the same things on the same…

The secret to avoiding CES cynicism is never really going
CES 2018

Google Assistant had a good CES

Celine Dion at Caesar’s, David Copperfield at the MGM Grand, Google at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The company wallpapered the Vegas monorail and plastered the words “Hey Google” on…

Google Assistant had a good CES

You may not think much about the switches that sit underneath the keycaps of your keyboard, but there are many enthusiasts who really, really care. The trend is clearly going…

Cherry’s new low-profile switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops

The Yesojo Nintendo Switch projector dock got a lot of attention when we covered the launch of its crowdfunding campaign last year, but at CES, it was on display and…

Yesojo’s Nintendo Switch projector dock is a dream accessory
CES 2018

Cortana had a crappy CES

Cortana gets no respect. Microsoft’s smart assistant is actually pretty solid, all things told, but it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant. Maybe…

Cortana had a crappy CES

At CES, the big consumer electronics show underway this week in Las Vegas (when the lights are working), TechCrunch has learned that Verizon is working away on a couple of…

Source: Verizon to sharpen content strategy with OTT video service, IoT platform

Nuheara’s new IQBuds Boost headphones exist in a a strange sort of in-between spot. Like the rest of the company’s line, they’re clearly one of countless devices looking to compete…

Nuheara’s voice amplifying earbuds offer customizable hearing profiles

We saw a small mountain of cool stuff at CES this week, but this one is still on my mind a few days later. It’s a ring you wear while…

This ring lets you bend musical notes on a keyboard with a wave of your hand

As we noted earlier this week, the mere fact that Blocks was able to bring its modular smartwatch system to market feels like a minor miracle. The company appears to…

Blocks hopes to court enterprise customers with its modular smartwatch

It’s rare that I pay much attention to automaker infotainment and multimedia system updates at CES – usually there’s too much going on with autonomy, electrification and mobility services to…

Mercedes-Benz’s new MBUX in-car assistant and smart UI rocks

It took two years, but Sensel finally managed to start shipping the Morph to backers. The company apparently ran into every potential pitfall for a brand new hardware manufacturer, including…

Sensel is shopping around its Morph trackpad tech for use in other devices

Byton’s electric concept car wowed at CES, and for good reason. The SUV has a lot of strong features, including a max range of 323 miles for the upgraded version,…

Here’s what it’s like to ride in Byton’s new Concept SUV
CES 2018

CES should move to an innovative city

CES, the yearly bacchanal of tech and innovation, has outgrown its shell. Las Vegas has been home to the event since the late 1970s and, for better or worse, the…

CES should move to an innovative city

Meet Kuzzle, an all-in-one backend solution for connected devices and beyond. The French startup is giving you a scalable solution so you don’t have to develop everything from scratch yourself.…

Kuzzle is building the backend for the Internet of Things

Plenty of wearables companies make health claims that are dubious at best. It’s true that companies like Fitbit and Apple are getting a bit more serious about the whole thing,…

XPRIZE finalist Cloud DX’s Vitaliti is a serious health wearable

Hong Kong-based RealMax came to CES with an augmented reality headset they want to get on to everyone’s faces. The prototype is a little rough around the edges, but it…

This AR headset won’t win any style points, but it fills the world with fish

Consistent access to clean water is something billions lack, and part of that is the inability to check whether one’s water is clean or not. Lishtot could help change this…

Lishtot’s TestDrop tells you whether water is safe to drink without even touching it

All right, I’m impressed. I’m not sure I’m $1,600 impressed, but I definitely want one of these Zeus battling robots. We probably should have booked the Shenzhen-based startup a bit…

This $1,600 fighting robot toy kicks serious butt

It’s 2018, so it’s high time pillows gain a bit of technology. Rem-Fit’s Zeeq pillow is packed with the goods to, hopefully, improve a person’s sleep in various ways. Some people…

The Zeeq smart pillow tracks sleep, plays music and more

Ford is bringing crowdsourced navigation app Waze to its SYNC 3 infotainment system, the companies announced at CES 2018. The app will be available via Ford’s AppLink tech, offering up…

Ford cars with SYNC 3 are getting Waze support

Open-source software was once something that large businesses shied away from, but over the course of the last few years, it’s made inroads into virtually every enterprise company. With Automotive…

Automotive Grade Linux gets support from Toyota and Amazon as it eyes autonomous driving
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