USA TODAY goes to the Apple hands on room to check out the iPhone X, 8 and 8 Plus and Apple Watch. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing talks about the new'True Depth Camera System' in the iPhone X that allows facial recognition. New theater named after its iconic co-founder. With its flying saucer-shaped campus Apple Park as a backdrop, Apple gave a glimpse of the future with iPhone X -- a shimmering, edge-to-edge glass model with OLED screen, facial recognition to unlock the phone, wireless charging and talking emojis. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.

The first robotic barista opened in San Francisco on Monday. SAN FRANCISCO -- Something futuristic is brewing in a shopping complex here. The first robotic barista in the U.S., named "Gordon," started serving up to 120 coffee drinks an hour today-- ironically, just several thousand fee away from a Starbucks in the same complex. "A lot of us spend a lot of time in line waiting for coffee," says Henry Hu, CEO of Cafe X Technologies, the local start-up that created the robot. "And we decided to do something about it."

AUSTIN, Texas -- The race is on in Formula One. Not just to the checkered flag, but to see which team can marshall the best technology. In its 70th year, the preeminent auto-racing circuit has become a tech arms race. At the U.S. Grand Prix here this past weekend, the Internet of Things, big data, virtual reality, machine learning, 3-D printing, flash storage, predictive analytics and design play integral roles in the success (or failure) of the 22 drivers that compete in 21 races globally each year. The slightest advancement, or tweak, can mean the difference between first place and 10th place -- often the difference of one second.

A California start-up called View, which has raised a whopping 500 million from investors including Corning, General Electric and Khosla Ventures, is making high-tech windows that have the potential to bring to buildings what high-resolution touchscreens did for smartphones. View's windows eliminate glare, change hue, moderate internal temperature -- and at some point, could show entirely different views of the outside world -- via a process that uses a pane of glass sprayed with electrochromic material, which alters light transmission. The result is smart glass that increases energy efficiency and promises better worker productivity, via technology accessed through an app. "When you look at smart glass, the only smart surface we saw was on our phones," says Ben Bajarin, an analyst for Creative Strategies who follows the industry. "Now, we believe consumers are moving toward an age where smart glass can do almost anything -- for example, project images of the sun on your windows during a rainy day or viewing data on the window." While elements of the technology have been around on a smaller scale, such as car windows, View is the first company to commercially produce such glass at a large scale.

KOLKATA, India -- Across a bustling intersection from one of the first dead-letters offices, a pale blue sign beseeches pedestrians to join the future. Several hundred feet separate old, colonial India from the promise of a new, technologically transformed country. An Uber sign urges traffic safety and a gentle nudge for the ride-sharing service, which is wildly popular here. In Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, there are traces of the future amid decaying buildings and staggering poverty. Samsung Electronics and Dell signs mark the entrance to a dilapidated Victorian structure in the heart of the city. Kolkata is India's untold story in tech.