Mark Zuckerberg made headlines earlier this month when he said he hoped to build an artificial intelligence assistant that can help him around the house and at the office. He’s not the only one though, with Japanese company Vinclu bringing personality to the AI game. Its product, Gatebox, is set to be a device with …

I can’t keep up with Twitter. Each time I stop by, I feel as if I arrived in the middle of hundreds of conversations. I try to sift through the replies and promotional tweets for news items and other interesting Twitter tidbits. More often than not, it’s a short stay for me on Twitter. With free iOS app Little Voices, …

It’s easy to dismiss fitness apps as pointless because they don’t fit your exact fitness goals. That’s why we went through a bunch of ’em and came up with the perfect apps to help you keep your resolutions and get fit — whether your goal is to run a marathon or try CrossFit. No excuses! Goal: Watch what you eat …

Global shipments of devices, including PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow at a 1.9 percent clip this year over last, but overall spending will decline for the first time, according to market researcher Gartner. The forecast highlights what is likely to be a rough year for computing devices. Markets have matured and largely stagnated. As a result, companies need new …

There are only two places in Asia at the moment where the mighty liquid-cooled Asus ROG GX700 gaming laptop will be sold: Taiwan and Singapore. But fret not, as the Taiwanese company plans to sell this over-the-top machine in the US and other countries too, though no launch date has yet been revealed. In Europe, Asus will be selling the …

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Popular password managing app 1Password announced Tuesday it was releasing a beta version of its Android app through Google’s Play store. The app features a new look more in line with Google’s Material design approach, and adds support for 1Passwords’s new Team product for businesses (and families). Also included in the test version of 1Password 6.0 is support for fingerprint …

Facebook has rubbed India’s telecom regulator up the wrong way in its quest to provide free Internet. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in a letter published on Tuesday accused the social media company of turning a public debate on Net neutrality “into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll.” The TRAI in December began a new round of collecting …

If you already splurged on a great turntable and phono cartridge, maybe it’s time to hear them at their best with a top-notch phono preamplifier, like the Lehmann Black Cube SE II. That one had me, once again, rethinking the appeal of high-resolution digital audio. The Black Cube SE II is capable of producing extremely high-resolution sound, with LPs. The …

Windows 10’s new Windows Store is pretty easy to use, and we’ve already covered the basics — how to find and download apps, and how to manage and protect your account. But there are a few other things you can do in the Windows Store, like checking out the library of apps that have been downloaded across your devices (even …