Portal

When Facebook introduced its line of Portal screen-enhanced smart speakers, it wanted to find a way to make video chat as intimate as sitting down for a conversation with an old friend. Here's how its engineers tried to pull off the feat using some smart A.I. and a bit of human creativity.

It's fair to say that Facebook's Portal smart displays received a tepid response at launch, so it was a surprise to see glowing reviews of the device on Amazon. It turns out some were written by Facebook employees. The company says it has told the reviewers to remove their work from Amazon's site.

There's been much talk over the last year that Facebook is preparing to launch a smart speaker. The latest report suggests it'll be hitting the market with two devices -- the first fruits of the secretive Building 8 hardware lab. We may have our first look at the patent behind the speaker, but details remain sparse.

Bridge Constructor Portal is no Portal 3, but it’s a great, unexpected new experience for Portal fans, and will also satisfy puzzle gamers.

Razer has collaborated with Ignition Design Labs to improve the Portal wireless router, most likely for gamers.

Bridge Constructor Portal is a mashup of the popular civil engineering game and Valve's puzzle series Portal.

The BitFenix Portal is a mini-ITX case with plenty of room and an easy-to-access sliding tray that makes it easy to show off your build.

Hololens developer kennywdev teases a mixed reality app that incorporates gameplay mechanics from Valve's hit first-person puzzler Portal.

Although the last web-based security bulletin was published on January 2017 Update Tuesday, the service officially ends on February 13, 2017.

Valve's current president and co-founder Gabe Newell talked Half-Life, the Left 4 Dead series and unannounced projects.

J.J. Abrams has issued a promising update on the development of a film adaptation of Portal.

There's a new Kickstarter campaign seeking funds for a wireless router called Portal that uses spectrum originally set aside for weather radar systems.

Portal Stories: Mel, the free modification that expands the Portal universe, is set to debut in virtual reality in early April, as Portal Stories: VR.

During an interview about 10 Cloverfield Lane, filmmaker J.J. Abrams offered an update of sorts on the Portal and Half-Life movies.

Telltale Games new crossover card game Poker Night 2 is a fan service sundae, mixing characters from Portal, The Venture Bros, Borderlands, and Evil Dead.

Portal creator Kim Swift is making an original OUYA game with Airtight Games. Meanwhile OUYA has hired Journey co-creator Kellee Santiago to work with its developers.

After nine years, Nintendo is ready to retire the Nintendo DS, but fans of the console aren't ready to let it die just yet. One homebrew game maker is working on Portal DS.

Dan Trachtenberg, creator of the excellent Portal: No Escape fan film, has been tapped by New Line Cinema to direct the studio's upcoming adaptation of Y: The Last Man.

Director Guillermo del Toro's latest, Pacific Rim, features an AI that sounds suspiciously similar to GLaDOS, the malevolent star of Valve Software's Portal series. According to del Toro, this is all by design.