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Moving to a new country can be hard. You don’t know the language. Cultural differences create conversational landmines. And you just can’t be sure that everyone will like you. As it turns out, that as true for people as it is for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, which officially sets up residence in France today. Amazon …

In my time writing about tech, I’ve spent untold hours using expensive smartphones. You know, the really nice ones that can sometimes cost upwards of a grand these days. For your money, you’ll get metal and glass components that feel and look great, eye-popping cameras, brilliant screens…the works. But, after spending a weekend in Nashville …

Father’s Day is coming up soon! While we’ve handpicked eighteen great gifts for the dad-ly figure in your life, we’ve also worked with our friends at TechBargains to find great deals on other gift-worthy gadgets that we adore. Does your traveling dad need a compact iPad? We’ve got you covered! Or does he want the …

Ten days before the big concert, the members of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra are performing technology triage. Rehearsal has only just started, but already, things seemed to be falling apart. First there was trouble with the network that connects the laptops to one another. Then one of the laptops crashed; its human component, a graduate …

The FIFA World Cup is the biggest event for the most popular sport in the entire world. According to FIFA and Kantar Media, almost half of all people who are alive tuned in at home to watch at least a minute of one match of 2014’s World Cup in Brazil. Over one billion people watched …

Give dad the gift of sleep. The Echo Dot has a lot of uses, but it’s also a super affordable white noise machine. By enabling any of Alexa’s many White Noise Skills any dad can easily turn the Dot into a rain storm, fountain, washer dryer, ocean, babbling brook, and more. It can get oddly …

The Sonos Beam is a new $399 soundbar, but to Sonos, it’s a heck of a lot more than just a speaker that sits under your television. It’s a fabric-wrapped representation of how Sonos sees the future—one in which all the voice assistants from Apple and Google and Amazon can live next to one another. …

Most of the best Memorial Day tech sales have slowly trickled to an end, but with summer in full swing and new products coming out all the time, there are a surprising number of killer deals this week, including a rare sale on some excellent Google gadgets. With the help of our friends at TechBargains, …

How minor were the announced upgrades at Apple’s annual developer conference keynote? Enough that the long-maligned Stocks app got three distinct mentions onstage. Yes, the upcoming iOS 12 will get fancy new augmented reality tricks. MacOS Mojave will introduce an attractive “dark mode.” But on the whole, it was one of the sleepiest WWDC events …

Join us for live coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote at 9 am PDT on Monday, June 4.