Chinese drone company DJI unveiled Tuesday a new model that it claims is nearly as compact as a water bottle when packed up. The Mavic Pro, shipping on Oct. 15 for 999, is debuting a week after action camera company GoPro unveiled its long-awaited Karma drone, which also folds up for easy transportation. The Mavic Pro's arms and propellors fold alongside its body, making it possible to fit in a backpack or purse, DJI says. DJI's focus on portability extends to the Mavic's controller as well, which is smaller and can be used with or without a smartphone to display live video from the aircraft. DJI will be selling the Mavic Pro without its controller for 749 and a combination package which includes the drone, two extra batteries, extra propellors, a charging hub, an adapter, and a shoulder bag for 1,299.

From the David Lynch-esque pastiche of Virginia to Nintendo's first Mario iOS game Super Mario Run, these are some of the biggest and most interesting games for consoles, computers and mobile devices due this fall--in order of release. The fourth entry in word-wizarding studio inkle's magnificent fantasy is also its last, though you needn't have played the prior three to ease in comfortably here. Boasting "tens of thousands of choices" and a tale that "rewrites itself around your actions," now's as good a time as any to introduce yourself to this superlative narrative romp from the developer of 80 Days (TIME's game of the year 2014). If you love David Lynch, you have to play newcomer Variable State's Virginia--it's really that simple (read TIME's review here). It's a "walking simulator," sure, but unlike any yet drafted, framing its mysteries in strictly visual terms, without audio logs or text dumps or even the grounding cadences of spoken dialogue.

Long ago computers and machines began to replace blue collar jobs but as creatives we thought we were safe. Have we now reached the tipping point when computers can replace even the photo editor? In recent months, EyeEm, an image-sharing platform, has been working on algorithms that, it says, will "augment" the work of photo editors. One algorithm analyzes pictures to determine what is in them, using deep learning to recognize thousands of concepts – from objects to colors and even emotions. The other algorithm references a database of millions of curated images to determine the quality of a photograph and give each one an "Aesthetic Score."

Apple is continuing work on an Internet-connected gadget powered by its Siri voice assistant, according to a new report. The device, which Bloomberg reports recently entered the prototyping phase, would be a rival to Amazon's Echo speaker, a surprise hit following its release about two years ago. Amazon has sold about 3 million Echo devices, according to one estimate. Google is also planning a similar device, called Google Home. Like the Echo, the yet-unnamed Apple gadget would respond to various voice requests.

Buried in Bloomberg's report Friday morning about Apple moving ahead with its Amazon Echo competitor is a far more interesting nugget: Apple believes it's just three years away from a fully voice-controlled iPhone, according to an unnamed source. Beyond the home device, Apple is researching new ways to improve Siri on iPhones and iPads, two people said. With an initiative code-named "Invisible Hand," Apple hopes to give users the ability to fully control their devices through a Siri command system within three years, one of the people added. Currently, the voice assistant is able to respond to commands within its application, but Apple's goal is for Siri to be able to control the entire system without having to open an app or reactivate Siri. Clearly Apple's convinced that voice control is the future--along with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, all of whom are investing heavily in the area.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's philanthropic initiative will invest 3 billion over the next decade in an effort to cure and manage all diseases. Speaking at the University of California, San Francisco, Chan announced the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's latest venture, which will start with a 600 million investment in a project called Biohub that will connect UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford University to develop tools to measure and treat diseases. "We believe that the future we want for our children is possible. We set a goal: Can we cure all diseases in our children's lifetime?" Chan said during the talk.

The next time you need to Google something, you may end up doing so via text message rather than typing in a search query or saying "Ok, Google." Allo includes a few capabilities that make using it feel notably different than sending texts through your phone's default SMS service. For one, it includes the company's new Google Assistant, which surfaces answers to questions and makes suggestions directly within your chat window. Allo can intelligently suggest responses to text and photo messages through a feature called Smart Reply. As other messangers like LINE and Facebook Messenger, Google's new messaging app offers an array of stickers to choose from.

After months of vague teasers and delays, action camera maker GoPro has officially unveiled its first drone, the Karma. It will launch on Oct. 23 for 799.99. That package will include the Karma drone, its accompanying controller, six propellers, a battery, a charger, a stabilizer and harness, a grip, a mounting ring and a case. It will be compatible with GoPro's Hero 5 Black, Hero 5 Session and Hero 4 cameras. The drone folds up to fit in its case, which can be worn as a backpack, making it easier to transport than some other more cumbersome drones.

Lyft, the nation's second-largest ride-hailing service, expects autonomous vehicles to account for a majority of its rides within five years, CEO John Zimmer told TIME in an exclusive interview. Days after its chief rival Uber's self-driving cars began ferrying passengers in Pittsburgh, Zimmer also said he expects car ownership will "all but end" in major U.S. cities in less than 10 years. "There are already specific trips--whether it's just on this street or just at this time in this perfect weather condition--that an autonomous vehicle could do today," Zimmer tells TIME. And he believes that this is how the self-driving revolution will come to the masses: not by consumers swapping out their old cars for fully autonomous personal vehicles but by consumers paying for rides in self-driving cars they don't own, with the type of trip restricted heavily at first and then growing more complicated as technology and regulations advance. That is also the logic on which his five-year prediction is built.