Watch Amazon’s Alexa summon a Tesla Model S out of a garage

If you own a Tesla Model S or Model X you’ve been able to summon your all-electric carfor nearly six months now, but one developer has created an even cooler way with Amazon’s Echo. Using an unofficial Tesla API and the Echo, Jason Goecke created code that runs in the cloud to respond to keyword […]

YouTube says its primetime audience is bigger than the top 10 TV shows combined

For the last three years, YouTube has put on a series of increasingly extravagant parties meant to convince advertisers that the video platform is the best place to spend their marketing dollars. The fourth annual Brandcast took place last night at the Javits Center, and compared with previous versions, it was decidedly more self-assured. In […]

Windows 10 upgrades will cost $119 after July 29

if you’ve been dragging your heels on upgrading to Windows 10, now is the time to take action. Free upgrades to the new OS from previous versions of Windows will end on July 29, Microsoft reiterated today. The company initially said the offer would only last one year, and indeed that date marks Windows 10’s […]

The next ‘Battlefield’ drops you in WWI, launches on October 21st

EA and developer Dice today revealed the next major entry in the venerable warfare series Battlefield. Just as the rumor mill believed, the game will be set in World War I — and the new game, appropriately, is titled Battlefield 1. “We chose the name because we’re going back to the true dawn of all […]