General Motors' first fully autonomous car will be electric, available to just about anyone, and it could be here before you know it. The company plans to bring its self-driving cars to the masses by launching its first driverless on the Lyft platform, Pam Fletcher, executive chief engineer of autonomous tech at GM, told Tech Insider. Fletcher would not share specifics about timing, but she did say the company’s first fully autonomous car will be available via the ride-sharing service sooner than you may expect.

There are two things people can count in the future: everything will be connected, and the cars will be electric. That is, if pollution from natural gasses doesn’t kill us all first. But you don’t have to wait for the future. You can get both of those things now. EMotorWerks, an at-home electric vehicle charger, announced an Amazon Echo skill for Alexa today that eases the pain of car charging. Using a platform called JuiceNet, Echo owners can control and check on the status of their car battery without ever having to leave the couch. Who needs assistants, friends, or …

Intel seems to be developing a pair of augmented reality smart glasses, and we may see them at the company’s developer show next month. The Intel Remote EyeSight, a set of head-worn AR smart glasses, is built around the idea of remote collaboration. The company will offer details at a technical session during next month’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Further information about the AR smart glasses wasn’t immediately available, but they seem like a cross between Microsoft’s HoloLens and Google Glass.

You gotta catch ‘em all in Pokémon Go, but right now that’s hard to do. Unless you’re looking at your phone 24/7 or willing to jump out of your running car, you might miss out on a rare Pokémon. It looks like you won’t be getting any help with that before the fall. Nintendo recently announced via Twitter that the Pokémon Go Plus wearable won’t be released until September. The wearable was originally expected to roll out in July.

Alibaba is using VR to make shopping more interactive. The e-commerce giant has launched Buy+, which enabled users to choose apparel and accessories via a 360-degree panoramic view with help from a robotic shopping assistant. Still in beta, Buy+ lets users browse products from bags to shoes to lingerie and call for virtual models to showcase the apparel and accessories on a catwalk. Shoppers can then cycle through additional features with more product detail and add an item to their shopping cart or buy it.