An online pharmacy is planning to use drones to deliver the morning-after pill and Viagra following successful UK trials. MedExpress is in talks with the independent regulator for pharmacy services to dispatch medicines and the contraceptive nationwide. The company says the service will be particularly useful for people living in remote areas. They have offered assurances that the products will be delivered discreetly with purchases details blacked out on sales records and bank accounts. One challenge MedExpress faces is delivering medication safely and at temperatures that do not interfere with the drugs' effectiveness.

Once upon a time, Wileyfox phones shipped with Cyanogen OS, a community-driven version of Android. Cyanogen's demise means Wileyfox has been forced to go back to vanilla Android -- but that doesn't mean it's now cosy with Google. Today, the company announced that all of its phones will soon support Amazon's Alexa, a rival to Google's own Assistant. Starting with the Swift 2 range later this month, customers will be able to access all of the same Alexa skills found on the Echo speaker. Wileyfox says it's the cheapest way to use Alexa on the move.

Lenovo has officially announced the Motorola Moto X4 at IFA 2017 in Berlin. The handset is a mid-range Android smartphone featuring a set of dual cameras on the back and features integration of Amazon's Alexa digital voice assistant. The Moto X4 features 5.2-inch full HD IPS display layered with Gorilla Glass 4. The device features a metal and glass design, with an overall look that's pretty similar to most other recent Moto devices. The Moto X4 is also IP68 water and dust resistant, which is actually better than the Moto Z2 series's "splashproof" rating, as pointed out by The Verge. It's more of a mid-range device that comes with some features that users would find in some premium handsets.

Some people who are blind can echolocate like bats, making clicks with their mouths that help them understand the environment around them. Now researchers are beginning to understand how this works, so non-sighted people may one day be able to learn the technique. While many people who are blind get information from ambient echoes, only a few make noises themselves to echolocate. Some, such as Daniel Kish (pictured), are so proficient they can draw a sketch of a room after clicking their way around it, or even go mountain biking along unfamiliar routes. Previous research revealed that this human echolocation involves some brain areas that are used for vision in sighted people.

You may well be yawning just reading this - it's contagious. Now researchers have looked at what happens in our brains to trigger that response. A University of Nottingham team found it occurs in a part of the brain responsible for motor function. The primary motor cortex also plays a part in conditions such as Tourette's syndrome. So the scientists say understanding contagious yawning could also help understand those disorders too.

Google's voice assistant is about to be available on a lot more devices beyond the Google Home and Android phones. The AI - which rivals Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana - will now be found on a new set of third-party speakers and appliances, the company announced today at IFA the consumer electronics show in Germany. These devices will either come with Google Assistant built in (meaning you can talk to it) or will be compatible with it (meaning you can use the assistant to control it). Google Assistant- which rivals Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana - will now be found on a new set of third-party speakers and appliances, the company announced today at IFA the consumer electronics show in Germany. Google's voice assistant is about to be available on a lot more devices beyond the Google Home and Android phones.

The two archrivals in the field of cloud computing are partnering so their voice-controlled assistants can talk to one another. Amazon currently dominates the market it created. Alexa and Cortana will be going to the dance together. On Wednesday, Amazon and Microsoft announced a first-of-its kind collaboration between the one-time rival digital assistants that will begin in earnest later this year. Owners of Amazon's popular Alexa-driven Echo speakers will be able to say, "Alexa, open Cortana."

Porsche is looking to become the envy of the green conscious with its latest electric lineup. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) has the details. Porsche's InnoDrive driver-assist tech leverages data from topographical maps and traffic services to look 1.8 miles down the road and prepare the car's suspension and engine for the road ahead. Porsche drivers will soon have cars that can electronically see 1.8-miles down the road, thanks to the German automaker's formerly European-only InnoDrive system that will make its appearance on 2019 U.S. models. The driver-assist feature, which the company announced during an event at its Zuffenhausen, Germany, headquarters this week, is yet another salvo in the ongoing war between automakers to provide motorists with a growing suite of technological minders that making driving safer while stopping well short of offering as-yet unproven self-driving vehicles.

Artificial intelligence needs our help. The best AIs are quickly mastering skills from lip-reading to video games, but only by learning through repeated failure. As robots take on riskier domains, like healthcare and driving, this is no longer an acceptable approach. Fortunately, a new study suggests that with the right human oversight, it might be possible to ditch the failures. To try to train an AI without it making a mistake, Owain Evans at the University of Oxford and his colleagues started with the simple two-dimensional table tennis video game Pong. Normally, a Pong-playing agent will let the ball fly past its paddle a few hundred times before realising that isn't a very good way of increasing its score.

A robot to sort your Tupperware, clean your windows, and fetch you a drink may be on its way. It's not a humanoid, but rather a little critter, built with soft artificial muscles powered by a vacuum. The creation comes in many different modules that can be clicked together like Lego for different tasks. "Everyone has a Swiss army knife somewhere, we want this to be the robot equivalent," says Jamie Paik at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. It could be used as an extra hand when trying to hammer a nail into a wall, or left alone to organise your fridge.