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LAS VEGAS — Google Assistant is about to get a new platform: TVs. Nvidia's new Shield set-top box will ship with Google Assistant built in, Nvidia announced Wednesday. The company is also making a separate microphone, called the Nvidia Spot, so you can interact with the Assistant outside your living room...

All of our focus should be on CES 2017 this week, but a new round of reports has shifted our attention to two devices that will end up being far more popular than anything unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, and likely more exciting as well: the iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8. Apple and Samsung both have big plans for their flagship smartphones in 2017, but Apple’s plans won’t be realized for another eight months...

The Moto X Pure Edition, known as the Moto X Style for users outside the United States, was spotted on the GFXBench processor benchmark test website running Android 7.1.1 Nougat. Motorola previously revealed that the Moto X Pure Edition, which is currently running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, will soon receive an update to the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. With the GFXBench sighting, could the Android 7.1.1 Nougat launch for the smartphone be drawing nearer?

CBS News More than one million Google accounts have been hacked by malware that infiltrated older Android devices, cyber security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced Wednesday...

You can finally take Netflix with you onto a plane or the subway. Today the company announced that it’s launching offline playback for “many of your favorite streaming series and movies.”

Aside from mapping out space programs, tech innovator Elon Musk has other sophisticated things in mind. This time, the billionaire entrepreneur wants to wrap the globe with high-speed web scope..

Scientists in the UK have developed a USB stick that can quickly and accurately measure the amount of HIV is in a patient’s blood...

You might never have to plug a charging cable into your iPhone again. Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing company that builds electronics including the iPhone, is reportedly testing wireless charging modules that might make it into next year's iPhone 8, according to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review...

Twitter is shutting down video-sharing service Vine "in the coming months," the company announced Thursday. Vine, which lets you share short video clips, debuted in 2013. Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 before the service had even launched...

Apple Inc. is expected to unveil a revamped MacBook Pro on Thursday with a fingerprint reader and faster ports, returning to the product line it build the company on after updating smartphones with the iPhone 7...