Congratulations to Mark K. of Ashburn, Virginia, for winning a Piper DIY computer kit for kids last week, and to Jaque R. of Phoenix for winning five films on Blu-ray the week before that. This week’s winner gets a Sony HT-XT1, a slim pedestal sound bar you place under your TV to boost the sound …

Microsoft this week released Pix, an iOS camera app that it claims “is so smart that you won’t have to waste time on adjusting settings, focus hunting, or reviewing and choosing from multiple shots.” I checked out the app to put Microsoft’s claims of higher intelligence to the test and to find out if it’s smarter than the stock Camera …

Amazon boosted its UK groceries offering on Thursday with the launch of its Dash scanner in the UK. The device can be used scan barcodes on products you already have, or take your order by speaking into its microphone. It adds these grocery items to your Amazon basket, then you buy them when you next visit the site. It’s effectively …

As Google showed off its master plan for a future built around artificial intelligence in May, CEO Sundar Pichai introduced a virtual helper that aims to make its search technology even more useful for you. It’s a grand plan — in an interview in May, Pichai called it a “broad journey” — but we’ll have to wait a while longer …

Thanks to a new teaser ad posted by Samsung Mobile Korea, people curious about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone get a chance to play Sherlock Holmes. The fast-moving clip (embedded below) offers clues to features that the new phone will apparently offer. Your job is to try to decipher them. We’ll play Watson and lend a hand. Posted to YouTube …

Worry not, Amazon customers! The Dot will return. Amazon’s Echo Dot device sold out earlier this month, sparking rumors that the product had been discontinued. I checked with Amazon, which quickly confirmed that news of the Dot’s demise were greatly exaggerated. The $90 Dot, a hockey-puck shaped speaker that houses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, was introduced in March along with …

Now playing: Watch this: Changed your mind on Windows 10? Here’s how you can roll… 1:39 Updated, July 28, 2016: Updated with the latest information. So we think Windows 10 is great. If you’re still in doubt, though, keep in mind that you have only a few more days to upgrade to it for free. After that, it’s going to …

Long before movies could be digitally downloaded, kiddies, VHS rental stores were the place to go. Movie fans would browse store shelves looking for the perfect action, horror, comedy or romance flick to take home for the weekend, which is usually as long as the stores would allow the movies to be rented. Related stories ‘It’s a blurry mess!’ — …

Apple’s long-rumored streaming TV service failed to materialize due to its brash negotiating tactics, according to The Wall Street Journal. Potential deals between the tech giant and major networks including CBS, Disney and Fox went south because Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of software and services, came across as arrogant during negotiations, the newspaper reported Thursday. Many thought the …

As smartphone shipments sputter and stall, an upstart is shooting forward from the back of the pack. China’s Oppo saw shipments of its phones more than double — the precise gain: 137 percent — in the second quarter of 2016, compared with the same period a year earlier. That was good enough to put Oppo into fourth place, according to …