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Tall, small, dancing, singing, cleaning, sassy, silly, cute and scary — CES 2017 was awash with robots. While there are the obvious ones like the humanoid “Pepper,” exhibits at the colossal electronics show stretched the definition of a robot to include Amazon Echo-like hubs that featured glowing eyes or that bobbed to music. You can …

US Vice President Joe Biden is making a heartfelt pitch to the health startup community: He needs its help to fight cancer. “There’s an urgent need to continue this momentum, that’s why I came to you, I really do mean this. This is too deadly important,” he told a standing room-only crowd of more than 300 people during an intimate, …

Aira, a US-based startup, has developed a pair of smart glasses that can help blind people with everyday tasks. The glasses, which are based on Google Glass, connect blind customers with a network of certified agents that can see what the blind person would be seeing in real time. These agents can help customers with daily tasks and activities such …

Walking the floor at Eureka Park, the startup pavilion here at CES 2017, I came across this strange product: Hushme, which is billed as the “world’s first voice mask for mobile phones.” Due to hit a crowdfunding site later this year, Hushme can be worn as a standard neckband-style wireless headphone — it has integrated ear buds — or in …

After a few years without new hardware, the maker of the Tablo streaming DVR, Nuvyyo, is back with some new products for 2017 — a “smart” antenna dongle with cloud storage, and a USB DVR for Android TV devices. Tablo Droid While Tablo has traditionally made networked DVRs, the new Tablo Droid software will let you connect a USB antenna …

A French startup, called Energysquare, has created a new type of technology that can wireless charge almost any device. This includes devices that don’t have wireless charging capabilities built-in, such as Apple‘s iPhone and iPad. The company launched a successful Kickstarter campaign last May and is promising to ship the product in the coming months (early 2017). I got to …

So I guess I can finally stop trying to perfect my pronunciation of Cyanogen, the company that tried and failed to kill Google’s Android OS and never grabbed much mainstream appeal. The startup announced late Friday that “as part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen,” it’s shutting down all services and nightly builds on December 31. “The open source project …

Drone deliveries are taking off. Amazon delivered its first package. Alphabet is delivering burritos. 7-Eleven has delivered all kinds of stuff. And now, France has become the first country to let its national postal service deliver mail by drone — as long as you live on a single, 9-mile long postal route. Let me rephrase that: as long as you …

“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 …

Oh, thank heaven for drones. 7-Eleven, one of the world’s largest chains of convenience stores, has completed 77 delivers via drone to customers in Reno, Nevada. The deliveries were made in collaboration with Flirtey, a commercial drone startup that began working with the retail chain over the summer. In November, Flirty made regular deliveries from a 7-Eleven store in Reno …