Adding another arrow to its smart-home quiver, Google said Wednesday that it’s expanding its personal voice assistant onto tablets and phones running Android Lollipop. Google Assistant, like competitors Alexa, Siri and Cortana, answers all sorts of questions ranging from the weather to your flight information to your next appointment. And it can help out around …

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If you live in New Orleans, Des Moines, Green Bay, South Bend or any of these 34 cities, you now have a new option if you want to cut the cord. YouTube TV expanded its service to 34 new markets on Monday, including the metro areas above as well as Flint, Buffalo, Colorado Springs and others. With the addition of this …

Can’t wait to get a hot new app? Apple now will let you preorder it in the App Store. The new feature, which Apple detailed for developers Monday, only works for new apps that haven’t been published on the App Store before. They have to hit the store within two to 90 days. Apple notifies you when the app you’ve …

Facebook is taking big steps to bring more augmented reality to its services. For the uninitiated, augmented reality, or AR, lets people superimpose virtual graphics on top of real world images. It’s what gives you digital sunglasses or dog ears in Snapchat and Instagram. The social network on Tuesday said it’s bringing a new feature, called World Effects, to its …

Drone operators will once again be required to register their aircraft with the federal government under a sweeping defense policy bill signed into law Tuesday. The requirement that recreational drone operators register their unmanned aerial vehicles with the Federal Aviation Administration was included in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Donald Trump signed Tuesday. The provision reinstates a …

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Apple bills the iPhone X as “the smartphone of the future.” But we’re sitting here tinkering with the iPhone X now, and can’t help but to wonder what’s next. Fortunately, the new features of the iPhone X — the TrueDepth camera, Face ID and even the new, bezel-less design — offer hints of where the iPhone may go next. This …