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Here is a short list of products that Apple has released in the past few years:

Ten years ago this week, Apple released a compact, rounded rectangle that changed how billions around the world interact and share information. Before the iPhone, and for a while afterwards, smartphones were generally clunky, complicated devices that tried to mimic the experience of using a computer in a far smaller form factor. But Apple set out to make a simple device that “just worked” and over the next decade, went on to sell one billion smartphones, and spur on an entire new sector of devices.

The wireless headphone market is starting to look a lot like the early smartphone market.

We’re already in purgatory.

Ten years ago today, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled what has become the most profitable product ever, and the catalyst for a revolution in the way we communicate and share information.

As Quartz’s time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes to a close, we have rounded up CES’s best phones, TVs, concept cars, and miscellany. Rather than being focused on breakout gadgets, this year was especially homogenous, dominated by similar products competing in a few categories: We saw droves of autonomous, electric concept cars, variations on the smart speaker, and half-baked home robots. The best gadgets, listed below, were chosen because they actually managed to differentiate themselves from the herd, or seemed like real, viable products amidst a field of prototypes.

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The device war for your pocket is old hat—these days, everyone wants to get inside your house. With the Echo speaker, Amazon brought smart-home hubs into the mainstream in 2014, and Google launched its own version, Home, last year. Now Samsung is following suit, but based on a much older idea: The way to the heart is through the stomach.

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Quartz technology reporters Dave Gershgorn and Mike Murphy will be spending all week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they’ll be checking out the latest in electronics, cars, robots, and everything else the trade show has to offer.

Let’s face it: A lot of stuff will come out of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, and most of it won’t leave the convention hall, let alone make it to market. But there is value in paying attention to the year’s first gadget reveals: The first reveals at CES can set the tone for technology released throughout the rest of the year.

Apple’s newest laptops have been met with mixed reviews since their release in November. And now it seems they won’t be getting the seal of approval from the preeminent product ratings organization in the US, Consumer Reports.

At this rate, just about every man-made surface there is could be covered in solar panels in the future.

After a pretty mixed 2016, Apple might be shaping up for a big 2017.

Apple wasn’t at its best in 2016.

Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of him living his totally normal life with his completely normal family and their newest member, an artificial intelligence system that Zuckerberg is calling Jarvis.

As Premier League soccer games kick off this holiday season, there will be cameras filming the match, broadcasting to televisions around the world, but for most of the games, no one in the UK will be watching.

If Elon Musk got bored of digging tunnels and decided he wanted to build an electric bike, it would probably look and act a lot like the VanMoof Electrified S.

Things were supposed to be different with Mario.

The future of automotive technology looks a lot like one of the most popular types of cars from the 1990s.

When Apple launched the latest version of its streaming device, the Apple TV, in 2015, it unveiled a set of stunning slow-motion screensavers for the device. The short videos that play when the box is idle depict aerial footage of some of the most famous skylines and landscapes around the world, and yesterday, Dec. 16, it introduced some new ones, including the skyline of Dubai, and the snowy hills of Greenland.

On Monday, Dec. 19, the members of the Electoral College, the group of voters from each state that elect the US president and vice-president, will meet in their respective state capitals to cast their votes. By the current tally, Donald Trump should beat Hillary Clinton 306 – 232 to become the 45th president of the United States.

Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough.