Best Stock Market Quote Apps for Android

Track your investments and get up-to-date stock quotes with these great apps!

You don’t have to be a Wall Street big wig to keep on track of all the movement on the global financial markets. These days, you can keep track of your personal stocks and watch the markets from wherever you are via your phone.

We’re focusing on apps for monitoring stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs, but if you’re new to the stock trade you might be interested in checking out a stock trading simulator such as TradeHero for a more hands-on approach to learning how to follow the markets.

• JStock Android
• Stock Quote
• Stocks – Realtime Stock Quotes
• Bloomberg
• Investing.com Stocks, Forex, Futures & News

JStock Android

JStock provides a clean UI for finding and tracking stocks across 36 world stock markets. The free version lets you monitor the world indices and create and track stock watch lists, while also offering custom stock alert notifications to your lock screen along with a handy home screen widget.

Upgrade to premium to get rid of the banner ads, unlock cloud integration with the desktop version of the JStock software (available for Windows, Linux and MacOS), and other great features such as portfolio summary reports, unlimited watch lists and portfolios, and more tools for viewing stock histories.

Download: JStock Android (Free w/ IAPs)

Stock Quote

Stock Quote is a very comprehensive app for monitoring the stock markets. Right from the home screen, Stock Quote immediately cursory glances at important indices markets and stocks, which are all entirely customizable. Tap the menu button in the top right to access economic and earnings calendars, economic indicators and a stock calculator.

Stock Quote pulls real-time, after-hour, and pre-market quotes from NYSE and NASDAQ stocks, and includes comprehensive details and news on stocks being traded across 16 markets. It’s entirely free and also includes widgets for your home screen.

Download: Stock Quote (Free)

Stocks – Realtime Stock Quotes

If you’re looking for a clean and minimalist stock app, Stocks is just that. Featuring a dark theme by default, you’ll be able to create and manage multiple stock portfolios for yourself while also keeping tabs on the markets.

Tap on a stock or market for an in-depth financial breakdown, including recent news items from leading financial news outlets and historic charts that track up to 10 years of data. If you know exactly what info you’re looking after, Stocks – Realtime Stock Quotes will deliver just that with one of the smoothest interfaces you’ll find for an Android stock app.

Download: Stocks – Realtime Stock Quotes (Free)

Bloomberg

One of the leading financial news and data analysts, Bloomberg’s app is a great resource for quotes and trustworthy insight into the global markets.

This app leads with the latest financial news from Bloomberg, but also features up-to-date info on the global markets, and lets you log in or create an account to monitor your portfolio. If Bloomberg is a trusted source for your financial news, you’ll enjoy the media tab, which includes trending analysis and interviews with the day’s newsmakers, alongside radio reports and full Bloomberg shows which are all available for free without subscription. It helps to have a clear view of the global markets, and Bloomberg will keep you informed while also keeping your personal portfolio a finger tap away.

Download: Bloomberg (Free)

Investing.com Stocks, Forex, Futures & News

Powered by Investing.com, this app delivers real-time, streaming quotes for all financial instruments including Stocks, ETFs, Bonds, Commodities, Forex, Indices, Futures and Bitcoin, along with the latest financial news, videos and analysis. This is another one-stop option for traders and investors looking to stay informed on the latest goings-on in the financial world.

You can build your own portfolio in the app, or sync portfolios from an existing Investing.com account. There’s a lot of information available in this free version, including a widget for your home screen, but you’ll have to deal with ads. You have the option of upgrading to the premium version with a monthly or yearly subscription available via in-app purchases.

Download: Investing.com Stocks, Forex, Futures & News (Free w/IAPs)

Feeling bullish?

If you’ve got a preferred stock quote app that didn’t make our list (or maybe a hot stock tip?), let us know in the comments below!

BlackBerry launches a more secure software platform for autonomous cars

QNX SDP 7.0 is BlackBerry’s ‘most advanced and secure’ embedded platform for autonomous cars.

In the lead up to CES 2017, BlackBerry QNX let it be known the show would be big for them and they’re already off to great start, having now announced what they’re calling their “most advanced and secure embedded software platform for autonomous drive and connected cars,” also known as QNX SDP 7.0.

From John Wall, senior vice president and head of BlackBerry QNX:

With the push toward connected and autonomous vehicles, the electronic architecture of cars is evolving – from a multitude of smaller processors each executing a dedicated function, to a set of high performance domain controllers, powered by 64-bit processors and graphical processing units.

To develop these new systems, our automotive customers will need a safe and secure 64-bit OS that can run highly complex software, including neural networks and artificial intelligence algorithms. QNX SDP 7.0 is suited not only for cars, but also for almost any safety- or mission-critical application that requires 64-bit performance and advanced security. This includes surgical robots, industrial controllers and high-speed trains.

As BlackBerry notes, QNX SDP 7.0 will be demonstrated in BlackBerry QNX’s 2016 Jaguar XJ and 2017 Lincoln MKZ concept cars at CES 2017 alongside a 2017 Aston Martin Vanquish model that is now shipping with BlackBerry QNX’s latest in-vehicle infotainment software technology. This latest announcement comes hot on the heels of BlackBerry QNX unveiling their innovation centre for connected and autonomous vehicles.

BlackBerry QNX Launches its Most Advanced and Secure Embedded Software Platform for Autonomous Drive and Connected Cars

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–(Marketwired – Jan. 4, 2017) – International CES 2017, LVCC North Hall, Booth 7029 – BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSX:BB) today announced its most advanced and secure embedded operating system (OS) for the automotive industry. QNX® Software Development Platform 7.0 (QNX® SDP 7.0) is a 64-bit OS that builds on the proven reliability of QNX technology and raises the bar for security and performance in cars. At CES 2017, the technological capabilities of QNX SDP 7.0 will be demonstrated in BlackBerry QNX’s 2016 Jaguar XJ and 2017 Lincoln MKZ concept cars.

“With the push toward connected and autonomous vehicles, the electronic architecture of cars is evolving – from a multitude of smaller processors each executing a dedicated function, to a set of high performance domain controllers, powered by 64-bit processors and graphical processing units,” said John Wall, senior vice president and head of BlackBerry QNX. “To develop these new systems, our automotive customers will need a safe and secure 64-bit OS that can run highly complex software, including neural networks and artificial intelligence algorithms. QNX SDP 7.0 is suited not only for cars, but also for almost any safety- or mission-critical application that requires 64-bit performance and advanced security. This includes surgical robots, industrial controllers and high-speed trains.”

QNX SDP 7.0 provides high performance and enhanced kernel-level security through an array of features, including microkernel architecture, file encryption, adaptive time partitioning, a high availability framework, anomaly detection, and multi-level policy-based access control. Featuring the next-generation QNX Neutrino® Realtime OS and QNX Momentics® Tool Suite, this reliable OS helps guard against system malfunctions, malware, and cyber attacks by implementing a multi-level, policy-driven security model that incorporates best-in-class security technology from BlackBerry. The OS also offers a safety pedigree proven by certification to ISO 26262 ASIL D (the highest level achievable) for automobiles and to IEC 61508 SIL 3 for industrial automation systems, and by compliance with IEC 62304 for life-critical Class III medical devices.

As automakers look to consolidate domain functions such as infotainment, telematics, and digital instrument clusters into a virtual cockpit controller, QNX SDP 7.0 provides a realtime OS that supports 64-bit for the ARMv8 and Intel x86-64 architectures, along with virtualization capabilities. QNX SDP 7.0 can help ensure that these automated systems perform all processes and actions reliably, within the pre-defined amount of time needed for successful and safe execution.

Must-See Concept Cars at CES – BlackBerry Booth 7029

BlackBerry QNX will unveil a Jaguar XJ concept car with a new digital cockpit design that combines the infotainment and instrument cluster functionality. It shows two operating systems running safely and securely on a single System-on-a-Chip (SoC) processor. BlackBerry QNX hypervisor software safely separates and isolates the infotainment system and graphics, meaning the infotainment system can safely re-start without affecting the instrument cluster. BlackBerry worked with Rightware Cluster UI to build the QNX Cluster graphics monitor that can detect failures in the safety system. The Jaguar XJ concept car also features BlackBerry’s QNX® Acoustics Management Platform (AMP) for clear high-definition in-car communication, active noise control, and engine sound enhancement.

BlackBerry QNX will also take the wraps off of its autonomous Lincoln MKZ concept car, showing QNX SDP 7.0 capabilities in action on Renesas’ CES test track (LVCC North Hall, Gold Lot). BlackBerry QNX worked with Renesas, the University of Waterloo, and Polysync to develop the prototype vehicle that demonstrates Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities. Using LiDAR, radar, forward-facing cameras, global positioning systems (GPS), and inertial measurement units (IMU), the car can detect obstacles on the road, anticipate dangerous driving situations, and present warnings to avoid collisions to keep drivers and passengers safe. The QNX Platform for ADAS processes data generated from the sensors in realtime, and also records and plays back the data off-line for feature development and testing.

Also on display at BlackBerry’s CES booth is a 2017 Aston Martin Vanquish model that is now shipping with BlackBerry QNX’s latest in-vehicle infotainment software technology. The new infotainment system is the control center, seamlessly integrating audio, hands-free communication and vehicle status technologies into the cabin. It also has an upgraded satellite navigation system with a quicker address input, advanced traffic information, and support for Apple CarPlay.

BlackBerry Radar

BlackBerry will also showcase BlackBerry Radar, its secure end-to-end hardware and software asset tracking solution for the transportation and logistics industry. Radar provides more sensor readings, more often than any other solution on the market today. This allows customers to accurately monitor assets, manage yards, analyze utilization, measure efficiency, and reduce theft based on a near realtime view of the fleet.

Availability

QNX SDP 7.0 is the latest in a string of momentum updates BlackBerry has made in its software transformation, and comes less than a month after the company released a mobile-native, secure software platform for the Enterprise of Things, and two weeks after the unveiling of the BlackBerry QNX Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre. The beta release of QNX SDP 7.0 is available now for evaluation and product development. General availability is scheduled for Q1 2017. Please visit here for more information.

About BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a mobile-native security software and services company dedicated to securing people, devices, processes and systems for today’s enterprise. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company was founded in 1984 and operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa. The Company trades under the ticker symbols “BB” on the Toronto Stock Exchange and “BBRY” on the NASDAQ. For more information, visit http://www.BlackBerry.com.
BlackBerry, QNX, QNX CAR, Momentics, Neutrino, and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of BlackBerry Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. QNX Software Systems Limited and/or BlackBerry are not responsible for any third-party products or services.

5 Best Ways To Use Your Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo can make your life easier in innumerable ways.

Millions of people bought an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot for their homes in 2016 — and maybe you were one of them! Thanks to the growing number of skills available for Alexa, Amazon’s voice-controlled AI assistant, you can make use of Amazon Echo countless different ways in different rooms in your house.

In fact, thanks to the way you can set up multiple Amazon Echo and Echo Dots throughout a house, you might be inspired to get a Dot or two for more coverage throughout your home. Here’s some of our favorite ways to use Alexa to make life easier at home.

• Using Alexa in the kitchen
• Starting the day on the right note
• Find Your Phone around the house
• Set the mood with music
• Explore the limitless possibilities with IFTTT

Using Alexa in the kitchen

One of the most popular places to use an Amazon Echo is in the kitchen. When you’ve got your hands all messy making dinner, it’s incredibly convenient to use when you need to set a timer or if you need to convert measurement units on the fly. There’s also (of course) the option of ordering things right from Amazon, so if you notice that you’re running low on a specific ingredient or need a new kitchen utensil, you can order it right away, and through the magic of Amazon Prime it might be available for same-day delivery!

There are also a bunch of Alexa Skills available for food and beverages, which run the gamut from recipes from popular brands and bartender apps with cocktail recipes and wine pairing suggestions. Also, it’s alway better to cook with some music playing, and Alexa can control music from your Amazon Music account, Spotify, TuneIn and more.

If you’ve determined that there’s no food in the kitchen to cook, or you just feel like ordering in, you can connect Alexa to the Domino’s app for Android and order a pizza with only your voice. The future is now.

Starting the day on the right note

If you place an Amazon Echo in your bedroom, you can use it to make your life easier by setting your morning alarm each day. Simply ask “Alexa, set an alarm for…” whatever time you want, and you can set it to repeat every day, or just on weekdays or weekends. You can pop into the Alexa app on your phone to edit alarms at any time as well.

You can also have Alexa deliver you daily news or traffic briefings by simply saying, “Alexa, give me my Flash Briefing”, which pulls together audio news reports from sources you can customize in the Alexa app, or say “Alexa, what’s my commute?” for weather and traffic updates from your home to work. That way if traffic is backed up, you can plan your morning routine accordingly.

It’s the little things that make mornings a bit more bearable.

Find Your phone around the house

Picture this: You’re about to leave the house when you realize you can’t find your phone. It’s probably happened more than a few times to you, right?

With just a bit of setup, Alexa can help make it easier than ever to find your phone when you’ve accidentally misplaced it somewhere in your home thanks to TrackR.

First, you need to activate the find my phone skill through Alexa by saying”Alexa, enable the Find My Phone skill”. Then you’ll need to download the TrackR app onto your phone and go through the setup process for Alexa integration. Once it’s all good to go, you can set off your phone’s ringer by asking Alexa to find your phone. This will work even if you’ve set your phone to silent.

Set the mood with music

Both the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot have built in speakers for playing music, and since launch there’s been growing support for different music services including of course Amazon’s own music service, but also Spotify Premium, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Pandora.

By default, Alexa will scour Amazon Music to fulfil your request, so if you want to use a third-party service, you’ll need to specify “from Spotify”. For example, you can say “Play [title] by [artist] from Spotify” to play a specific track, or “Play from Spotify” to play a custom playlist that you’ve created within the app.

If you’re a true audiophile and you’ve got Sonos speakers in your home or apartment, you’ll be happy to know that full integration between Sonos and Amazon Echo is coming later in 2017, with beta testing currently underway via the Sonos App.

Explore the limitless possibilities with IFTTT

If you own an Amazon Echo and haven’t looked into the available If This Then That (IFTTT) applets, you’re really missing out.

IFTTT is a free service that allows users to create and share chains of simple conditional statements that connect different apps and devices together. Connecting it up with Alexa lets you do all sorts of smart things automatically, such as receiving a notification on your phone when your Alexa timer goes off, or have Alexa email you your shopping list whenever you ask “what’s on my Shopping List”.

This is also the place to find or create connections between your Amazon Echo and the ever-growing list of connected devices and apps that are compatible with IFTTT. For example, you can yourself some Alexa-compatible smart lights and take advantage of custom commands, such as “Alexa, trigger party time”, which sets your Philip Hue lights to rotate through fun color loops.

There’s a ton of fun to be explored here, and it might help to inspire your next smart home investment — however do note that IFTTT only works in the US or UK at this time.

What are your Alexa tips?

These are our best recommendations for using your Amazon Echo around the house, but we want to know how you use Alexa around your home! Let us know in the comments!

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What is QLED? Samsung’s new TV tech explained

Samsung used CES 2017 to introduce a new type of TV technology that could prove to be a major leap forward in picture quality. It’s called QLED, which you may think is incredibly similar to OLED. You’d be right, and there’s a good reason for it, because the two TV technologies share many similar qualities. 

But what exactly is QLED? How does it work? And how does it differ to OLED? Allow us to explain.

What is QLED?

Samsung has called its new TVs QLED because they use what are called Quantum Dot LEDs. They’re similar to OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) and have many similar properties, but they claim to be far superior.

For now, it seems Samsung is the only TV manufacturer using the new technology, with LG and Panasonic sticking to OLED and possibly even Sony, although we’re still waiting for what it has to reveal at CES 2017.

• Samsung QLED TV preview: Is this Samsung’s best ever television range?

How does QLED work?

QLED screens take a Quantum Dot layer and wrap it in a new metal alloy to make colours more accurate, improve viewing angles and allow the screens to go even brighter.

Samsung, and other TV manufacturers have used Quantum Dot technology in their TVs for a few years now, but the new range of QLED TVs take it a step further.

Quantum Dot TV tech works by placing a layer, or film, of Quantum Dots in front of a regular LCD backlight panel. The layer is made up of nano crystals, each of which emits its own individual colour depending on its size (anywhere between 2 and 10 nanometers). 

Because each nano crystal can emit its own light, colours can be reproduced more accurately. It’s a similar system to OLED screens in that each OLED produces its own individual light. It also means QLED screens can close the gap between LCD and OLED screens when it comes to producing the deepest blacks. 

How is QLED different from OLED?

But the lighting is actually what also sets the two technologies apart. Quantum Dot TVs still rely on an LCD backlight but OLEDs each produce their own light, they’re either on or off. 

QLED screens use new backlighting system, which produces light from all directions, as opposed to pixels in regular LCD panel TVs being lit from one direction. This new way of lighting a picture not only improves colour and contrast, but viewing angles as well.

While it may mean OLED screens can effectively produce better blacks, Quantum Dot TVs can go brighter, and when you throw High Dynamic Range (HDR) into the mix, brightness is key.

• What is HDR, what TVs support HDR, and what HDR content can I watch?

The other main difference between the two is price. OLED screens are still considered to be expensive compared to their LCD counterparts. It’s because OLED screens are still relatively difficult to produce, although yield rates are much better than they were when the technology first emerged. 

Samsung hasn’t released pricing details of its new QLED sets just yet, but they’re likely to undercut them because they’re much more cost-effective to produce. 

What is the difference between QLED and SUHD TVs?

Samsung’s new QLED screens can reach peak brightnesses between 1,500 and 2,000 nits (the 65Q9F can achieve 2,000 nits), leaving OLED screens very much on the back burner. We’ve only been able to see Samsung’s new QLED screens for a short period at the unveiling in Las Vegas, and even then they had less than ideal picture settings, but from what we’ve seen we’re confident these could be Samsung’s best screens to date.  

We were already suitably impressed by Samsung’s KS9500 series of SUHD screens, which has a peak brightness of 1,400 nits, and made HDR content look jaw-dropping. To achieve Ultra HD Premium status – and if you’re a TV manufacturer hoping to produce the best TV of the year, you’ll definitely want this accolade – a TV only has to reach 1,000 nits peak brightness to produce an effective HDR picture.

• What is Ultra HD Premium and why does it matter? The 4K HDR badge explained?

QLED technology is still very much in its infancy, as its only been released to the public within the last few days, but it certainly has a very bright future. We’ve yet to learn if other TV manufacturers will experiment with it, but if the results are pictures brighter than OLED, but with the same contrast ratio benefits, for a cheaper price, we see no real reason for them not to.

AKG reaches out to the frequent flyers with noise-cancelling headphones

The flyers and commuters among you will know that noises can get interfere with your music, when all you want to do is sit back and listen to your favourite album in peace.

• CES 2017: All the announcements, TVs, laptops and more from the show

AKG is all too aware of this problem, but believes it has the ideal solution in the N60 NC Wireless on-ear headphones and N20 NC in-ear headphones, officially unveiled at CES 2017.

AKG already has the N60 NC as a wired model, but for even more convenience and portability, has ditched the cable in favour of Bluetooth. However, AKG says that even though the cable has gone, the sound quality of the wired model hasn’t.

The N60 NCs feature Active Noise Cancelling technology, which lets you control the amount of outside you want to let in. If you’re on a plane, you’ll likely want to block out all sounds, but if you’re cycling for example, you’ll want to be aware of traffic around you.

The £250 you’ll need to spend on the N60 NC Wireless headphones doesn’t just go on the noise cancelling tech either, as they’re wrapped in a mixture of leather, aluminium and memory foam for extra comfort.

Comfort is key too, as the N60 NCs claim a 30 hour battery life, more than enough for any long-haul flight, so you’ll want a pair of headphones that you’re happy to leave on for extended periods. The AKG N60 NC Wireless will be available from April.

If on-ear headphones aren’t your thing but you still want noise-cancellation, the N20 NCs may be of interest. They’re the latest addition to AKG’s travel series of headphones and claim to deliver “best-in-class active noise cancellation”. They’re a wired pair, but still need to have a rechargeable module to take care of noise cancellation duties, which is good for 20 hours.

The AKG N20 NC in-ear headphones will be available from summer 2017 for £170.

You can watch LG’s CES 2017 press conference live right here

LG is kicking off a busy day of press conferences at CES 2017, promising the chance to “see the next”. 

LG has already made a number of announcements in the run up to CES 2017, including some mid-range smartphones, a levitating 360 degree speaker, an update to its Super UHD televisions and the launch of a Dolby Atmos soundbar. 

Missing from the list of launches so far are any details about LG’s OLED TV plans for the year. Will it be bumping the brightness or taking things even slimmer? Will it be launching an Ultra HD Blu-ray player to support Dolby Vision? 

You can watch it all be unveiled right here.

• CES 2017: All the announcements, TVs, laptops, gadgets and more from the show

ICYMI: CES brings smart brush, remote, fridge and odd cyborg

Today on In Case You Missed It: If you were looking for things to make your home life easier, you might need a camera that takes a photo of the inside of your fridge every time it is opened. Then you’ll always know if someone drank the last of the milk and didn’t tell you. You can check the photos in the app to see what you’re out of and even get push notifications when your food is about expire (if you first manually add that information in). The FridgeCam by Smarter will cost $149.

If outfitting your dumb fridge isn’t your thing but you already have Philips Hue lights or Sonos speakers, you should know about the universal remote by Sevenhugs. You can point to anything and adjust it, but the most interesting feature might be setting locations around your house, like that big weird plant in the corner being the place you point your remote to hail an Uber.

The rest of you can roll your eyes along with me over the $200 smart hair brush, even if it’s fun to play with. Personally, since it’s my fifth International CES, I was expecting a Rosie to brush my hair for me by this point but I suppose this is one step closer.

I don’t know the deal about the CES cyborg, please tell me if you do. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd. And click here to catch up on the latest news from CES 2017.

Helia bulbs cut blue light to help you sleep at night

Soraa doesn’t generally make lighting solutions for us plebeians. Its lightbulbs grace the likes of the Palace of Versaille, not the One Bedroom of Terrence. But the company is ready to dabble in the consumer market with Helia. These smart bulbs jump not just on the bandwagon of IoT, but also embrace the growing hostility towards blue light.

See, all of this time staring at screens has taught us that blue wavelengths of light are not very good for our sleep patterns. And now slowly, but surely app makers and device builders are starting to add features that filter out blue light at night to help preserve your circadian rhythms. But, now we’re often surrounded LED lights in our kitchens and bedrooms, which also have an annoying tendency to pump out lots of blue light. Helia tackles this by pairing a high-tech lamp with an advanced filter. Pair the bulbs with the app via Bluetooth, it pinpoints your locations and syncs your bulbs with sunrise and sunset. As the day wears on, Helia slowly filters out more and more of the blue wavelengths until none are left.

It’s a pretty neat trick, but Helia actually has a few more up its sleeve. See, the bulbs all communicate over your powerlines, creating room-based groups. If you tack on the Presence Smart SNAPs, you can get all the lights in your kitchen to turn on in the morning as you enter the room. Pick up the Cloud Connect and you can control the lights via Alexa and IFTTT.

Obviously the floor at CES is not the best place to get a lighting demo, but the difference between the Helia bulbs (on the left in the top photo) and the generic competition LED ones they brought with them was readily apparent. While Soraa filters out all of the blue light, it’s still able to maintain a more natural and neutral seeming hue by carefully controlling the rest of the light spectrum.

All of this doesn’t come cheap however. When they finally go on sale in spring of 2017, the bulbs alone will cost $50 apiece. The Presence Smart SNAPs will set you back $30 and the Cloud Connect another $50.

Click here to catch up on the latest news from CES 2017.

Comcast’s new ‘Gateway’ will centrally manage your smart home

Comcast already dominates many people’s living rooms, and now it’s looking to expand its reach to the rest of your house. Today at CES, the company announced that it will release a series of Gateway smart home hubs throughout the next year. In particular, as you might expect, these hubs will allow Comcast’s Xfinity customers to manage the menagerie of Internet of Things devices that inhabit the modern home.

Xfinity users already have access to the Xfinity Wireless Gateway, which acts as a unified modem-router for their home internet. In early 2017, Comcast will debut its Advanced Gateway, which allows for 9 Gbps WiFi and is what users will need to connect to the company’s forthcoming gigabit service. This new hardware will be accompanied by a slew of new cloud-based software and UI features.

For example, setting up the gateway itself is simply a matter of downloading an onboarding app onto your phone, scanning the QR code on the bottom of the device and making up a network ID/password. The system automatically searches out and connects with every WiFi device in your house. The new Gateways will also integrate with your existing Xfinity X1 systems, granting full control of every IoT device in the house through your TV. It even works with the X1 remote’s voice control feature.

Once those IoT devices are integrated into the system, they can be assigned to users or rooms. You’ll be able to track internet usage for each device and run diagnostics when something goes screwy. You can also control the device’s internet access. Comcast bills this as a way for parents to monitor their kids’ internet usage and make rules for when the children can and can’t be online.

Click here to catch up on the latest news from CES 2017.

Nikon’s D5600 mid-range DSLR hits the US this month for $800

Nikon revealed its D5600 camera back in November, but at the time it didn’t share any pricing or availability details. Today, however, it announced that the mid-range DSLR will arrive in the US later this month for $800, which includes an 18-55mm AF-P DX Nikkor lens. Compared to the D500, Nikon focused on connectivity improvements with the new model, adding support for Bluetooth and NFC. Additionally, the 3.2-inch touchscreen now features functions like cropping and a frame-advance bar.

Other than that, you get a 24.2-megapixel sensor (DX-format), an Expeed 4 image processor, 5 frames-per-second continuous shooting and a max ISO of 25,600. All told, that should be more than enough to get some Nikon fans excited about the D5600.

Click here to catch up on the latest news from CES 2017.