Big Brother isn't just watching, he's listening. At least, he's listening to Amazon Echo customers. Wil Gomez:Amazon’s Echo device is pretty cool, though. Like Siri’s always on ‘Hey Siri…’ function on the iPhone, Echo really is always on, always listening to what’s going on in a room,... Read More »

Jeffrey Mincey looks at the increasingly-less-appropriately named Mactracker.If ever there was a Mac application which needs a new name it’s Mactracker, the database of every Mac ever made, but also a database for about every product Apple has ever made. Ever. Think of this app as a single source... Read More »

Color me a Steelers fan. Few football franchises have a more storied history so this story deserves a repeat. Shalise Manza Young with the set up:Things may get a little awkward the next time Hall of Famer and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw is around the team. Bradshaw, it seems, is not... Read More »

This is oh so cool and a brief glimpse of the future for drives. A Tesla automatically avoided a nasty highway wreck. Aaron Brown in Drive:A Model S being driven on the A2 near Eindhoven when the car's Forward Collision Warning system sounded an alarm alerting the driver of a potential hazard ahead.... Read More »

Wil Gomez on an all-too-frequent problem with Apple products.First:Whatever Apple is doing between the screen the CPU and the SSD storage is magically fast. Nothing slows it down. I opened up two dozen apps, tools, and utilities before I could get it to swap memory to the SSD, and everything... Read More »

I can only imagine how bad this would have been about half-way through a trans-Pacific flight. BBC:A transatlantic flight diverted to the Republic of Ireland after crew requested a landing so that passengers could use an airport's toilets. The New York to Paris flight landed at Shannon Airport after... Read More »

This is a good read and could save you thousands of dollars on your next car. Or, truck. Megan Elliott: Odds are, when we arrive at the dealership, we’re not going to encounter a car salesman that resembles Danny Devito’s character in Matilda, William H. Macy’s Character in Fargo, or even those... Read More »

What didn't work for Google might work for Apple. Wearables are coming. Jeffrey Mincey explains how Watch is only the beginning.Watch technology already is small, compact, unobtrusive, but not yet standalone. As the technology matures, it will gain more functionality, and one of the benefits will... Read More »

Sophia Rosenbaum:This heap is a diamond in the rust.The Aston Martin DB4, which was left in the woods in Massachusetts for more than 40 years, could sell for nearly half a million dollars at auction on Jan. 18.Rolled out in 1958, and a favorite of Agent 007, the DB4 was one of the first cars... Read More »

Among car manufacturers, as with almost anything, there are winners and losers. Micah Wright grabs Consumer Reports' most unreliable cars of 2016: It’s not always easy pinning down exactly what makes an automobile unreliable, because between harsh environments, poor driving habits, and the occasional... Read More »

Jeffrey Mincey on Amazon's new drone delivery service:Changing weather conditions alone should tell you this is a really, really dumb idea that is far more gimmick than future. Looks cool. Can be done. Drone deliveries won’t happen for the masses. Birds attack drones. Other drones attack drones.... Read More »

Never owned one, drove a few, and admire the iconic design but I never knew about this Porsche. James Derek Sapienza on the Porsche even Porsche fans don't know about.Even the most casual car buff could probably tell that this is a classic Porsche. That long hood, targa top, sloping roofline, engine... Read More »

Micah Wright's list of cars to avoid. Try as they might, automakers aren’t always able to deliver the goods at the end of the day. Even though a car may look spruced-up, that doesn’t always mean that it is well-built. A flurry of info from Consumer Reports recently crushed the common misconception... Read More »

Wil Gomez:If you want to hold onto a Mac from 2007, so be it, good for you, kudos for milking the technology dry. But the year 2016 and whatever is new has nothing to do with such a situation. If we decided to wait a year before buying anything new because obsolete, nobody would ever buy anything... Read More »