Month: September 2021

Amazon unveils a $250 Echo Show 15, with a 15.6-inch 1080p display, wall mount, Visual ID for tailored content, picture frame mode, and more (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils a $250 Echo Show 15, with a 15.6-inch 1080p display, wall mount, Visual ID for tailored content, picture frame mode, and more  —  Amazon just took the wraps off the latest — and largest — addition to the Echo Show family.  The Echo Show 15 takes the company’s smart

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Alexa will soon let users adjust preferences for sports, food, weather, and more and train it to identify sounds in their home, like ringing doorbells (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Alexa will soon let users adjust preferences for sports, food, weather, and more and train it to identify sounds in their home, like ringing doorbells  —  Amazon is preparing to roll out a trio of new features that will allow consumers to further personalize their Alexa experience by helping train the

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Amazon details Amazon Glow, a family-oriented $300 device with an 8″ display and projector that creates a 19″ touch-sensitive area on a surface in front of it (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon details Amazon Glow, a family-oriented $300 device with an 8″ display and projector that creates a 19″ touch-sensitive area on a surface in front of it  —  Amazon today introduced Amazon Glow, a new, interactive device aimed at families that allows kids to interact with family members …

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Amazon opens an invite-only program for its previously-announced $250 home surveillance drone, the Always Home Cam (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon opens an invite-only program for its previously-announced $250 home surveillance drone, the Always Home Cam  —  Ring’s $250 Always Home Cam is real and ready to fly into your living room  —  First announced at last year’s Amazon hardware event, the Ring Always Home Cam is now ready

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Amazon debuts $80 Halo View fitness band, the first device from its Halo health and wellness initiative with a screen, alongside a Halo Fitness service and more (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon debuts $80 Halo View fitness band, the first device from its Halo health and wellness initiative with a screen, alongside a Halo Fitness service and more  —  Amazon unveiled a new health band called Halo View, the second device from its Halo health-and-wellness initiative, and the first with a display.

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Amazon and Disney partner on “Hey, Disney”, a custom voice assistant built around Alexa, rolling out to consumers and the Orlando Disney World Resort next year (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon and Disney partner on “Hey, Disney”, a custom voice assistant built around Alexa, rolling out to consumers and the Orlando Disney World Resort next year  —  Amazon, for the first time, is making another voice assistant available on Echo devices.

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Amazon unveils $250 Ring Alarm Pro with a built-in Eero network, package delivery alerts, and an optional Virtual Security Guard subscription (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils $250 Ring Alarm Pro with a built-in Eero network, package delivery alerts, and an optional Virtual Security Guard subscription  —  Ring is just one part of Amazon’s annual devices and services event this year, but they’re bringing a lot of updates, including a new Pro Alarm suite …

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Amazon’s AZ2 CPU knows your face

The AZ2 brings facial recognition to the new Echo Show The announcement of Amazon’s new wall-mounted Echo Show 15 also revealed its new CPU that comes with some interesting (or potentially scary) applications. The AZ2 chip builds on the machine learning interface that premiered with the AZ1, which allowed Amazon devices to better recognize your

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Amazon launches a $19.99/month elder care subscription service, Alexa Together, with an emergency helpline feature, care alerts, tools for caregivers, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches a $19.99/month elder care subscription service, Alexa Together, with an emergency helpline feature, care alerts, tools for caregivers, and more  —  Amazon today announced a new subscription service called “Alexa Together,” designed for families with aging family members …

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Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $100M Series C at $1.2B valuation (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Gem, which integrates with LinkedIn to help automate data collection and follow-up correspondence with job candidates, raises $100M Series C at $1.2B valuation  —  Steve Bartel saw for himself how important hiring is.  He was among the first hires at Dropbox and acted as hiring manager …

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