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Google Bluetooth ‘Fast Pair’ Expands to More Android Phones
Google's "Fast Pair" Bluetooth feature—which debuted on the Pixel 2$649.99 at Verizon Wireless and Pixel 2 XL$849.99 at Verizon Wireless and offers a quicker way to help you pair Bluetooth devices—is now rolling out to devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and...
Walmart Enlists Robots to Scan Shelves for Problems
The next time you walk the aisles of Walmart, you may come face-to-screen with a robot. The world's largest retailer has already tested shelf-scanning robots in several stores in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and California, and is now expanding them to an additional 50...
US Wins Long-Awaited Robot Battle Against Japan
Update (10/18): US-based MegaBots asserted its dominance in the long-awaited giant robot duel against Japan's Suidobashi Heavy Industries. The pre-recorded melee combat brawl went down over several days last month in an abandoned steel mill in Japan with Suidobashi...
Volvo’s Polestar Electric Cars Will Be Sold Online
Volvo's performance road car brand Polestar just unveiled its first car: a two-door, four-seat electric hybrid. The Polestar 1—an electric car that also has a conventional internal combustion engine—has a range of 93 miles on electric power alone, which Volvo said is...
Amazon’s Newest, Biggest Wind Farm Now Up and Running
Update (10/19/17): Amazon on Thursday announced that its newest and biggest wind farm yet is now up and running. Amazon Wind Farm Texas includes more than 100 turbines, each more than 300-feet tall "with a rotor diameter more than twice the wingspan of a Boeing 787,"...
Privacy 101: Why You Need a VPN
Earlier this year, the Republican-led Congress voted to repeal FCC rules that blocked ISPs from selling your data to third parties without permission. The vote largely fell along party lines and President Trump signed the bill into law in early April. The new rules...
Facebook Testing News Subscriptions, But Not on iOS
Facebook on Thursday announced it's testing a news subscription tool designed to help publishers make some coin off their content. Over the next few weeks, Android users who are browsing news on the Facebook app may encounter a paywall prompting them to subscribe for...
Sorry Uber, Google Parent Alphabet Invests $1B in Lyft
Update (10/19): Google parent company Alphabet's investment arm CapitalG is making a big bet on Lyft. The ride-sharing company on Thursday confirmed that CapitalG is leading a $1 billion financing round in Lyft following rumors about the deal last month. That brings...
You Can Now Order Food on Facebook
Step aside, Seamless. You can now order food right on Facebook, the social network announced Friday. The next time a friend's check-in at Chiptole has you hankering for some queso dip, order it without ever leaving the social network. "People already go to Facebook to...








