Honda and Visa came together during this year’s Consumer Entertainment Expo to showcase some new technology, bringing in-vehicle payments to Honda’s cars. The partnership also enlisted the help of Gilbarco fuel pumps and IPS parking meters. The tech is only in demo-stages for now but has the potential to expand to a full feature in the future.

On Wednesday, CBS 11 reported a story about a youngster who accidentally ordered a pricey toy through Amazon’s Alexa device. Now that story has prompted orders for unwanted dollhouses after a San Diego station repeated the story to their audience. Earlier this week the Amazon device made Dallas girl, 6-year-old Brooke Neitzel’s dollhouse dreams a reality. “Alexa ordered me a dollhouse and cookies,” Brooke explained to CBS 11. According to CW6 in that city, their morning show anchor Jim Patton commented on the story and said “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse.'” The station reports that after Patton uttered those words “viewers all …

Intel's new credit card-sized computer, the Compute Card, could help businesses more rapidly connect their devices and grow their Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. The card, which is only 5 mm thick, was unveiled at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Thursday. A press release announcing the Compute Stick refers to it as a "modular compute platform." Intel said that it will be working with a set of partners to build out solutions for the ecosystem, including Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Sharp. The goal is clear: Enable more connected devices and boost the speed of an IoT deployment. The Compute Card could be …

Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived. Now, Delphi is shifting from stunts to selling. In Las Vegas this week at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, the company will give test rides to hundreds of potential customers in driverless Audis over a course of rugged terrain and tunnels. The goal: to walk away from this critical conclave with a handful of hot prospects for its self-driving system.

Dash cam footage suggests a Tesla on Autopilot may have predicted a nearby freeway crash before it actually happened. A video uploaded to Twitter shows a Tesla car driving on a highway in the Netherlands behind two cars that collide with each other. A Tesla representative confirmed with CNBC that the beeping heard in the video just before the accident is the sound of Autopilot's Forward Collision Warning.

Over the last decade, CES has become as much about cars as it is about consumer electronics. But 2017 looks ready to blow up even harder with more automotive tech than ever before. The biggest trend will be self-driving cars, exhibited by both automakers and technology companies. Add to that concept cars intended to show what a self-driving car of the future might look like. Along with the self-driving trend, we have a couple of production car reveals, for those automakers who want to get out there ahead of the following week's Detroit auto show. Other demonstrations will show off concept technology from BMW, …

AI is everywhere. At CES 2017 next week, it will become even more prevalent. Without giving away any secrets, it feels like there is something in the air already. Looking over my schedule, almost every meeting and test has an element related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. I know of one smart home company that is announcing a new AI system that knows when you are home and can adjust the lighting, security cameras, front door alarm, and heat automatically — no more opening an app and punching a bunch of options. Sure, the Nest Smart Thermostat has some of these features already, …

Snapchat has acquired Israeli augmented reality startup Cimagine for a purported $35 million, but both companies are keeping mum on their plans for the future.  Cimagine’s augmented reality platform allows consumers and retailers alike to better visualize the presence of products such as furniture and appliances in a room, on their mobile devices. 

The city’s first self-driving car will hit the streets Tuesday after state transportation officials approved an application from Cambridge-based nuTonomy, the final bump before road tests could begin. “We are ready to go, basically could have been testing any time over the last couple of weeks, we were just waiting for this final approval,” said Karl Iagnemma, chief executive of nuTonomy. “It’ll start simple, it’ll be driving straight down the street at a low speed and then you build up the complexity from there.”

According to a new report from the IDC, The Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market continued to see steady growth in Q3 2016. And the trend isn’t likely to change in 2017. That’s per the findings of the International Data Corporation (IDC). The global ICT research and consulting services firm said in a release that the Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearables market grew 38.3% year on year in Q3 2016 to total approximately 487,000 units.