Now playing: Watch this: Google Pixel knocks it out of the park 3:44 Google‘s Pixel phones ($695 at Amazon) are the first to run Android 7.1, giving them a bunch of new features, including one that makes it possible to long-press on an app icon, revealing a list of shortcuts. For example, the app shortcut …

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Parents, do you remember when your “robot friend” was a cardboard box in your front yard? Well, times have definitely changed, and now your child can befriend Dash, a superfun, real-life robot companion from Wonder Workshop. This week, one lucky parent will receive Wonder Workshop’s Holiday Pack, which includes Dash and the Launcher snap-on accessory. Dash is a voice-responsive, interactive …

Dish debuted the YouTube app on its Hopper 3 DVR late Thursday, becoming the first major pay-TV company in the US to enable videos from the massive site to play through its set-top box alongside traditional TV. Practically speaking, this means Dish customers can search, browse and play YouTube videos without switching inputs and devices. But symbolically, the move puts …

Apple says counterfeit power products constitute a threat to consumer safety. Jack Taylor, Getty Images That shiny new Lightning cable you bought through Amazon for you iPhone? Good chance it’s a fake, according to Apple. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, the iPhone maker said Mobile Star LLC and 50 unnamed defendants had infringed on its trademarks and copyrights …

The new Google Pixel phone has a super camera, with snappy performance and image quality that beats Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus overall. So how did Google do it? A lot of the success comes from a technology Google calls HDR+ that blends multiple photos into one to overcome common problems with mobile phone photography. Knowing that photography is a top-three …

Halley’s Comet is still a few decades away from returning, but it’s left a gift in the meantime. Meanwhile, back on Earth, don’t expect much greatness to come out of Twitter on Friday morning because the social network is experiencing an outage. Social Cues is your go-to guide on what’s buzzing across Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what is trending on …

Scientists from Imperial College London have used a century-old concept to wirelessly charge a drone while it was still in flight, the college announced this week. The group used inductive coupling (inventor Nikola Tesla first demonstrated in the late 1800s) in which two copper coils are tuned to one another to create a wireless exchange of power at a certain …

If you’ve never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for “distributed denial of service attack,” which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites offline. Until recently, DDoS attacks were used to …

The PC market hasn’t been doing too well globally, seeing a decline in shipments in Q3 compared with last year. But Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus still sees potential in Asia. With the launch of its Asus Zenbook 3 in Singapore, the company is signaling its intention to double down in a highly competitive market, one that has seen notebook manufacturers …