The Morning After: Weekend Edition

We'll recap this week's news highlights, plus big stories from Friday like Project Loon-distributed internet going live in Puerto Rico. Former Google X Lab (and now Alphabet X innovation lab) resident Project Loon is getting its first use in the US, as it's partnering with AT&T to provide service in Puerto Rico. As part of the restoration efforts, the high-flying balloons are launching from Nevada and floating over the island, all in hopes of beaming LTE to areas still without service a month after Hurricane Maria. The first Cortana speaker sounds amazing.Harman Kardon Invoke review The good news about this $199 smart speaker is that it sounds great, and Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant is a natural addition. The bad news is that as a latecomer to the game, it has fewer music service integrations, and right now, Cortana isn't as capable as competitors like Amazon's Alexa. You say replicant, we say repli-can.Bad Password: Apps and gadgets for the'Blade Runner' future we didn't ask for This week, Violet Blue explains how technology can help make the best of our dystopian present -- at least until Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling show up to fix things.