Echo Dot is Alexa without the big speaker; GoodGuide aims to inform shoppers and other top stories.

• Echo Dot is Alexa without the big speaker; GoodGuide aims to inform shoppers

  

  ECHO DOT $89 Virtual assistant helps connect your home Echo, at $180, is a wireless speaker combined with a virtual assistant called Alexa. The new Echo Dot is Alexa without the big speaker. The Dot has a tiny speaker so you can interact with Alexa, but it really shines when you connect it to speakers you already own through an aux-out port or Bluetooth. Say you have a system that plays in separate rooms. Connect to Echo Dot, and you can say, “Alexa, play my James Taylor station from Pandora,” ..

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• Why True Sc-Fi Is The Perfect Move For 'Call of Duty'

  

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• Xiaomi prepping to launch a Mi Smartwatch this 2016

  

  Told ya, Xiaomi is busy. But hey, what tech company isn't busy these days? It's actually better than being silent just waiting for financial reports to tell you revenue is going down. It may have been replaced by Huawei but Hugo Barra's baby will continue to deliver quality products. We're expecting the Xiaomi Max, MIUI 8, a chipset, plus possibly a Xiaomi UnionPay mobile payment service (Xiaomi Pay?). Xiaomi entered the wearable game with the Mi Band 1S late last year and now we're expecting..

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• Sony To Put A Camera On Your Eyeball

  

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• Puma training robot lets you compete against Usain Bolt's championship records

  

  Sports apparel brands are increasingly finding ways to create wearable tech that enhances the training experience, but one new piece of technology takes that dynamic to a new level by adding robots. The Puma BeatBot is a small, box-shaped automated device that literally races against humans to help them improve their running times. Equipped with an accelerometer, infrared sensors that help it follow the lines on a track, an Arduino microcontroller and a front facing camera, the BeatBot count..

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• The Apple Watch: Year One

  

  This week was the official one-year anniversary of the Apple Watch. I've owned one for almost all of that time, and — like many tech journalists and gadget commentators — I believe it's worth reflecting on what the Apple Watch has meant to the tech world, the wearables category, and Apple. I didn’t actually get my Apple Watch until May 5. The reasons for that 11-day delay have to do with poor band choices and a a big chunk of FOMO, but 51 weeks is still enough time to write a reflective analysi..

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• Driverless cars would mean 'a lot more sex' behind the wheel: expert

  

  OTTAWA -- Federal bureaucrats are raising concerns about distracted driving in semi-autonomous cars that don't require much input from the driver. And at least one expert is anticipating that, as the so-called 'smart' cars get smarter, there will eventually be an increase in an unusual form of distracted driving: hanky-panky behind the wheel. "I am predicting that, once computers are doing the driving, there will be a lot more sex in cars," said Barrie Kirk of the Canadian Automated Vehicles C..

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