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By Karissa Bell2017-01-07 21:29:30 UTC LAS VEGAS — Each year, CES plays host to some of the most compelling innovations in the tech industry: self-driving cars, virtual reality, robots, drones and televisions that get bigger and thinner each year. Not to mention Wi-Fi and bluetooth sensors embedded into just about every previously mundane appliance and […]

We’ve seen plenty of systems capable of tracking your home’s energy usage, and even spent some time testing one of them out in the CNET Smart Home. It’s a patently good idea, but to date, we haven’t seen a product that really nails the execution yet. That’s why I was so intrigued by what I

The LG Smart InstaView Door-in-Door refrigerator on display at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker / Getty Images Related: As Robots Learn to Become More Human, Are We More Robotic? Setting up smart appliances can seem like a daunting task for those who don’t consider themselves techies – and then there’s the added

For the 2017 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, smart home innovator Vivint decided to announce not one but three major partnerships and a brand new artificially intelligent home assistant. After revealing collaborations with the accommodations giant Airbnb, solar leader Vivint Solar, and Citizens Bank, Vivint also lifted the veil on its

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against the Taiwan-based D-Link Corporation and its US subsidiary, D-Link Systems, Inc., for not taking steps to secure their devices, which left them vulnerable to hackers. In the complaint, filed on Thursday, the FTC alleged that the company “failed to take reasonable steps to protect their routers

Credit: Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg / Getty Images Without question, the phrase heard most around this year’s CES is “It works with Alexa.” (Second place: “Where do I go to pick up my Uber?”) Amazon’s personal digital assistant software, till now found only in its line of Echo wireless speakers, is the belle of

The fortune of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, rose by $3.8 billion in the first week of 2017.  (Photo: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg) The new year has just begun, and Jeff Bezos’ net worth is already up almost $4 billion. Coming off a difficult three-month stretch in which Amazon lost more than 10% of its

LAS VEGAS—”Voyeur” is a French word, but surely it means the same thing in France as it does here, right? No respectable business would want to be associated with it, I always assumed, least of all a postal service. But as I trudged up a flight of stairs at CES here on Friday afternoon with