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Accept your fate: You can't escape the smart home

Yes, Alexa is everywhere. You have only to look at our CES 2017 Smart Home Scoreboard to see how Amazon has married its virtual assistant to cars, refrigerators, televisions and robots.


Alexa's momentum isn't surprising given the amount of hype over the last year. For Alexa's competition, Google Assistant is still new as a smart home assistant, and Apple is sticking to its slow-burn approach to growing Siri and its iOS HomeKit platform. That's why our Scoreboard has a loose quality breakdown. I didn't want to simply hand Amazon a prize for supporting yet another smart plug.

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Best home audio products from CES 2017

Though there are dozens of gadget shows around the world each year, there are probably only three that are worth following for audio-visual tech: IFA, CEDIA and CES. CES is the biggest.

At the close of the last day of 2017, we look back on the last week and pick out some of our personal highlights: From Atmos sound bars to Alexa clones, to the latest creations of one of our favorite audio companies.

Wireless speakers, or "Alexa is the new Bluetooth"
 
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2017 Porsche 911 GTS provides extra power, one of five different ways

Porsche's GTS line promises increased performance and a bit more style than its more traditional variants. That continues with the 2017 Porsche 911 GTS family.


Note that I say family -- there are technically five different GTS models. You can have the rear-wheel-drive 911 Carrera GTS Coupe or Cabriolet, the all-wheel-drive Carrera 4 GTS Coupe or Cabriolet or the glass-roof 911 Targa 4 GTS. Thankfully, you'll only need one.

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Holy moly! Image of space shows a thousand black holes

It looks like a bunch of slightly blurry, multicoloured fireflies, but while the image above doesn't look impressive at first glance, it certainly improves on more intimate acquaintance. It's actually a whole bunch of black holes at the centres of galaxies, imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.


To be more precise, it's over 1,000 black holes, in a patch of sky around two-thirds the size of the full moon in the southern constellation of Fornax. A patch of sky the size of the full moon at this concentration would contain 5,000 black holes; the entire sky would contain a billion.

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Razer's stunning prototypes stolen from CES, CEO reports

Razer had a great CES, wowing many with Project Valerie, a triple-screened laptop, and Project Ariana, a smart projector that makes use of the company's Chroma lighting to make your gaming experience more immersive.


But the trade show didn't have the happiest of endings, with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan reporting that two prototype devices were stolen from the company's CES booth.

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