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After years of development and millions of advertising dollars spent to convince us that a tablet could plausibly replace a laptop, Microsoft finally delivered the goods with the Surface Pro 4 in 2015. Equipped with robust processing power, a perfectly sized display and just-right aspect ratio, and a few critical add-on accessories, the current generation …

It’s getting down to the wire and you still haven’t figured out which laptops to get your kids for Christmas. Have no fear. Ask Maggie is here to help. The good news is that this is a great time to be in the market for a budget laptop. Today more than ever, consumers don’t have to sacrifice as much performance …

“Hey, are you awake?” I texted. It was 2:37 a.m. and every moment of wakefulness that passed would leave me more tired in the morning, but I just couldn’t fall back asleep. At the very least, I could use someone to talk to. “Hey what’s up hello, ” came the response. This was no fellow insomniac, nor the hotline for …

Fitbit’s latest earnings reports weren’t good at all. Pebble sold itself at a firesale price (to Fitbit) and cancelled its future watches. Microsoft, Motorola and Intel appear to have halted (or at least suspended) their wearable product lines. The Samsung Gear S3 slid into the holidays with a whimper, not a bang. And while Apple claims it just had its …

Now playing: Watch this: Future iPhone, Pixel phones could be foldable 1:11 A couple years from now, maybe you’ll get a phone that doesn’t look pretty much exactly like the last three you got, because phones from Apple, Google and Microsoft could get folding displays in 2018, according to a new report. Display maker LG Electronics will supply the folding …

Now playing: Watch this: Tech titans turn out for Trump 1:25 For President-elect Donald Trump, it’s kiss-and-make-up time. Trump met with more than a dozen executives from the biggest tech companies in the US — a roundtable fraught with potential for awkwardness given Trump’s repeated attacks on tech and the philosophical disagreements he has with some of the executives. The …

Nokia is back, but not with much a bang. The familiar Finnish phone brand once again graces new handsets, unveiled Tuesday by a company called HMD Global. HMD, a startup also based in Finland, is the manufacturing partner that Nokia has chosen to make phones bearing its name. These are the first Nokia phones in years not to be made …

Is the world about to get a smart speaker that features Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant? That’s the question Windows watching are asking after getting a glimpse of a video posted by audio-equipment maker Harman Kardon. The 30-second video doesn’t give much away, preferring to rely on its self-evident title, “Harman Kardon + Cortana: Premium audio meets personal assistant.” That combination …

Imagine you’re on a guided tour in Chartres cathedral in France along with tourists from Brazil, China, Russia and Germany — but none of you speaks French. For the last few decades, you’d each need your own tour guide. A new app from Microsoft aims to flatten this multilanguage barrier, though. The Microsoft Translator app, running on your phone but …

Now playing: Watch this: Our favorite laptops of 2016 1:45 While 2016 may not have had a lot of highlights for many people, it was at least a good year for laptops. We saw the first systems with OLED displays (something you really have to see in person to appreciate); gaming laptops that could handle VR hardware without being as …