GoPro is finally giving up on the drone market after a steady downward slope in the past few years. The company is also cutting more jobs following the successive layoffs it announced starting in early 2016. According to Android Police, GoPro has decided to fold its drone business since it can no longer keep up with the "extremely competitive" market. The company announced that its Karma drone would be the last of its drone offerings. However, it will still come up with new products that are aimed at new and existing customers this year.

GoPro has mostly been silent about its Karma drone's return following a recall in November, but it's finally ready to start talking... well, almost. The action camera maker has revealed that it will detail the Karma's worldwide relaunch sometime in early February. GoPro isn't saying much at this point, but it's close to completing its investigation of the Karma's power loss issues and expects the robotic flyer to hit shelves in 2017. While it's good to see that GoPro is confident enough in the Karma to start providing a timetable, the news won't be very comforting to prospective (and former) owners. It will have been roughly 3 months since the recall before GoPro even starts talking about the relaunch.

LOS ANGELES -- There was lots of talk about virtual reality in 2016, but most of it was looking forward to trends that might come true in a few years. The real action, however, was in another form of reality, the augmented kind. AR, or augmented reality, tops our annual list of tech innovations for 2016, highlighted, of course, by the Pokémon Go app, and all those crazy filters we added to our Snapchat photos. Snapchat, the app originally beloved for sending photos that could disappear within 10 seconds, has expanded into a service some 150 million visit daily, fueled by the selfie lens, where you can add cat ears and rainbow tongues to your photos and videos. In November, it went one step further with the introduction of "World Lenses," which put smiles onto ordinary clouds in the background of your photo, or add falling rain or snow to an image.

LOS ANGELES -- There was lots of talk about virtual reality in 2016, but most of it was looking forward to trends that might come true in a few years. The real action, however, was in another form of reality, the augmented kind. AR, or augmented reality, tops our annual list of tech innovations for 2016, highlighted, of course, by the Pokémon Go app, and all those crazy filters we added to our Snapchat photos. Snapchat, the app originally beloved for sending photos that could disappear within 10 seconds, has expanded into a service some 150 million visit daily, fueled by the selfie lens, where you can add cat ears and rainbow tongues to your photos and videos. In November, it went one step further with the introduction of "World Lenses," which put smiles onto ordinary clouds in the background of your photo, or add falling rain or snow to an image.

LOS ANGELES -- What's worse, a phone that explodes in your face or a drone that falls from the skies? It's a question worth pondering as we embark on our annual list of the top tech turkeys of the year. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The Samsung Note 7 received rave reviews for wireless charging, water resistant design and the ability to unlock the phone with your iris. But weeks after the first shipments, consumers started reporting phones that were erupting in flames, causing damage to houses and cars. Samsung announced a re-call and a massive replacement-- and then the new phones started blowing up, too.

This Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, photo shows a damaged Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on a table in Richmond, Va., after it caught fire earlier in the day. Samsung Electronics said Tuesday, Oct. 11, that it is discontinuing production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones permanently, a day after stopping global sales of the ill-fated devices. LOS ANGELES -- What's worse, a phone that explodes in your face or a drone that falls from the skies? It's a question worth pondering as we embark on our annual list of the top tech turkeys of the year. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The Samsung Note 7 received rave reviews for wireless charging, water resistant design and the ability to unlock the phone with your iris.

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GoPro Inc. GPRO -3.85 % 's new Karma drone isn't on sale yet, but it already has a nemesis, the Mavic Pro--a new quadcopter introduced on Tuesday by SZ DJI Technology Co., the Chinese company that has risen to dominance in the consumer drone space. Both drones are small enough to carry in a backpack, both feature foldable propeller arms, and both connect to 4K cameras. But they have some differences in capabilities and price. The Mavic Pro has a built-in camera and will sell for 1,000. GoPro will sell its Karma drone for 799, but cameras are sold separately.

GoPro is taking to the sky in order to help users become better story tellers. The California firm has unveiled Karma drone, tailored for first-person-action mini-cameras, new Hero 5 cameras and a cloud-based service for storing, editing and sharing video. Karma's controller is equipped with a touchscreen display, two joysticks, and a button for navigating the vehicle and selecting shooting presets that let users capture stunning aerial shots. GoPro is taking to the sky in order to help users become better story tellers. 'We want to help you all become great storytellers,' said GoPro founder and chief executive Nick Woodman after making a rock-star entrance at a media event in a tent at the Squaw Valley ski area where the 1960 Winter Olympic Games were held.

GoPro has been quiet for a while. And a rumored GoPro drone has remained a mystery while the competition in the skies continues to boil. Today, we get new GoPro goodies, and at first glimpse, they look great. The California company just took the lid off the Hero5 Black ( 399), the Hero5 Session ( 299), and its Karma drone ( 799). The cameras arrive on October 2, and the drone follows on October 23.