On the Road to Autonomy

Best Smartphone: OnePlus 15R When you're traveling, the last thing you want is a smart phone that runs out of battery power. Without power, there's no navigating foreign cobblestone streets or using Google Translate to converse with the wait staff in a 400-year-old Estonian pub. That's why the OnePlus 15R is such a wonderful travel companion, with a battery that will last a full 24 hours without having to plug in. The OnePlus 15R is a top-tier phone priced at just $700 list (

For autonomous vehicles and car companies, 2016 was a heady year. Multimillion-dollar investments in self-driving technologies were heralded on a weekly basis, and then Ford made an audacious prediction: It would mass-produce self-driving cars for consumers by 2021. That era “was insane with announcements,” said Alan Hall, a Ford communications manager at the time, “and 2021 was the magic number.” Five years after that missed goal, fully autonomous vehicles festooned with sen

Just because you're a venerable speaker company going back to the sixties and you have a pedigree that puts you in the pantheon of British audio companies, doesn't mean you're going to rest on your laurels. And KEF definitely is not resting on its laurels, as demonstrated by its Coda W all-in- one wireless powered speakers. These are kind of speakers I would have killed for in high school.