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iHeartRadio has gone to bot.  The streaming music service unleashed a slew of product integrations announcements at CES Monday. Listeners will be able to access iHeartRadio through its first bot, a helper on Facebook Messenger; and Garmin’s GPS running watch Forerunner 645 Music.  iHeartRadio, the digital arm of traditional radio giant iHeartMedia, has been extending …

At this year’s CES you’ll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. (Yes, we promise IoT, perhaps the buzziest of tech trends, is more than just hackable baby monitors and $400 internet-connected juicers.) Here’s the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G. The shorthand tag “5G” stands …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Now, that looks professional. Apple; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There’s no point waiting for people to get excited about the iPhone X. You have to keep selling the phones you already have. Especially as — so I was told by an Apple store employee …

Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, kicked off earlier today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers. Mixed reality — what most others call augmented reality — took center stage during CEO …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed off upcoming mixed reality hardware and software as part of his keynote at the Microsoft Ignite conference, saying the business will enhance both security and collaboration.  Ignite is an IT-focused event held in Orlando, and during his keynote, Nadella spoke of Microsoft’s mission to use “technology to empower people,” and AI to transform tools and …

OLED TVs boast the best picture quality we’ve ever tested, but if you want a truly big one, it’ll cost as much as a Ford Fiesta.  Pricing has been announced for the biggest 2017 versions of LG and Sony’s organic light-emitting diode TVs. They measure 77 inches diagonal and start at $15 grand. That’s three or four times as expensive …

According to Nvidia, the age of Moore’s Law is coming to an end. The solution? We don’t just need to get smaller, we need to get smarter. Nvidia took to the stage at Computex in Taipei today, talking up the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, all powered by its GPU computing technology and what it’s calling the Isaac …

I watched the drone ascend the 30 storeys from street level to my apartment balcony. It deposited the box on my table and buzzed right off again. Inside were oranges I needed for a salad I was going to make for my friend Barbara. At least they were supposed to be inside. I couldn’t tell for sure because — just …

If you’re trying to create immersive virtual-reality video today, you’ve got a problem: choosing between a camera that’s compact or a bulkier one that offers sharp imagery. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego, though, have found a way to get the best of both worlds. It’s a camera called PMast. The camera is just a prototype today, …

Inside an incredible 134-year-old building in Manchester, England, I found something I didn’t expect: an Avro Shackleton patrol aircraft. And a massive tandem-rotor Bristol Belvedere helicopter. It’s the Air and Space hall of the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). The rest of the museum is across the street, and in addition to science exhibits for kids (and adults) there’s …