New devices were introduced on Wednesday to get the digital assistant in your earbuds, in your eyeglasses and in your bathroom. Amazon Wants Alexa to Move (With You) Far Beyond the Living Room Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIt’s obvious that Amazon is trying to make its Alexa personal assistant as ubiquitous as possible. At today’s marathon product introduction, the company debuted a wide variety of its Echo-branded Alexa-powered products, both for the home and for the outdoors. But that presents the problem: with all these new and upgraded Echo devices, which should
Read MoreJoe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / The San Francisco Examiner: San Francisco grants permits to Lime, JUMP, Scoot, and Spin to deploy up to 2,500 electric scooters each, starting from October 15 — Rev your (electric) engines, San Francisco: E-scooters are going to spread across The City. — Four e-scooter companies just won a coveted permit to
Read MoreIn a recent issue of the Recomendo newsletter, Mark Frauenfelder suggested a three-tool kit for cleaning earwax out of the mesh screen of your AirPods. My AirPods were in dire need of a deep clean, and the cleaning method we once recommended on Lifehacker is just gross, so I ran out and bought the wax-loosening
Read MoreA team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit and Gab and used them to develop and train AI to combat hate speech. Finally, r/The_Donald and other online cesspools are doing something useful. The system was developed after the researchers created a novel dataset
Read MoreSpaceX is building and testing Starship prototypes as Elon Musk looks ahead to Earth orbit, the moon and then, perhaps someday, Mars. Elon Musk shows off the shiny SpaceX Starship – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWall Street Journal: SoftBank-backed real estate tech startup Compass loses its COO, after departures of CFO, CTO, CMO, HR head, general counsel, and head of product over 18 months — Startup fueled by $1.5 billion from Japanese tech fund faces scrutiny following wave of executive departures SoftBank-backed real estate tech startup Compass loses its COO,
Read MoreThe city decides to keep Uber on probation. Uber gets two-month operating license in London. It wanted five years – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Amazon Connect Kit will make Alexa your digital sous chef in the kitchen. Amazon Smart Oven: New Alexa device is air-fryer, microwave, convection oven in one – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe comedy of errors surrounding the game continues. Fallout Power Armor helmet recalled due to mold – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA pair of tycoon-owned companies are jockeying for the travel dollars of the super rich. Blue Origin says a new era of space tourism will probably launch in 2020 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAmazon took a whole damn Echo speaker and put it into a ring and called it the Echo Loop. It’s part of a program Amazon is calling “Day1,” which is code for “here are a bunch of products that are not really ready for mass sales, but we want to put them out there anyway.”
Read MoreSmartphones and other modern computing devices are wonderful things, but for those with disabilities interacting with them isn’t always easy. In trying to improve accessibility, [Dougie Mann] created TypeCase, a combination gestural input device and chording keyboard that exists in a kind of symbiotic relationship with a user’s smartphone. With TypeCase, a user can control
Read MoreIf you don’t need to buy groceries or home essentials in bulk, you may have assumed that shopping at a warehouse club like Costco or Sam’s Club is simply not for you. If you’re shopping for a small household or have limited storage space, the cost of a yearly membership may not be worth it.
Read MoreAndrew Gebhart / CNET: Amazon launches the “Certified for Humans” program for simple-to-use devices that are able to be set up and controlled within the Alexa app — Amazon wants your smart home to be simpler. Building off of the “frustration-free setup” announced last year, the company announced the … Amazon launches the "Certified for
Read MoreThe Verge: Amazon Echo Buds first impressions: comfortable, sound good, and are great at noise reduction, but their case is significantly larger than AirPods’ — These are going to be big, literally and metaphorically — Amazon is taking Alexa’s show on the road with it’s new Echo Buds … Amazon Echo Buds first impressions: comfortable,
Read MoreIf you fry a lot of bologna—and you should—you have probably noticed two things, one being that it smells divine. But the second, less pleasing phenomenon you might have observed is that it has a tendency to balloon up, lifting up and away from the pan. Read more… Make an 'X' in Your Bologna Before
Read MoreAlan Ohnsman / Forbes: Self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks raises $70M Series C led by Tiger Global Management, bringing its total raised to $117M — Embark Trucks, a self-driving tech firm created by two twenty-something Canadian computer scientists, just landed $70 million in new funding … Self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks raises M Series C
Read MoreIn an attempt to make the smart home simpler, smarter, and safer, Amazon is announcing a new “Certified for Humans” program, which is designed to make it easier to set up new smart home devices. The program builds upon the “frustration-free setup” initiative that Amazon announced last year, which stored user’s Wi-Fi details to share
Read MoreAmazon revealed an onslaught of new devices today, and among them was its first ‘high-end’ speaker: the Echo Studio. Amazon is claiming serious audio quality here, as the speaker was designed to go along with the company’s new Amazon Music HD service, which is able to deliver lossless audio. Moreover, it’s the first voice-enabled speaker
Read MoreI have used the term “special needs” freely and often throughout my life. I have a brother with autism, and the phrase is pretty versatile and, I thought, inoffensive. Read more… Learn Correct Terminology With the Disability Style Guide Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreAmazon is taking Alexa’s show on the road with its new Echo Buds, truly wireless headphones that pair with a connected smartphone and promise to offer the full Alexa experience. I have tried them on and can report that they are comfortable in my ears. But as they are in the noise-isolating style, they might
Read MoreWe’ve just gotten some brief time with Amazon’s first smart eyeglasses, the Echo Frames, at the company’s Seattle headquarters. Amazon is positioning the glasses as the ultimate take-Alexa-everywhere product, but it’s also trying to balance that pitch with privacy: there’s a button on the glasses to disable its microphones, and the Echo Frames lack any
Read MoreWith so many capabilities for obstacle avoidance, the only natural progression for drones would be for them to be hand-controlled. For Turkish inventor [metehanemlik], even this wasn’t enough of a challenge, as he decided to create the ESP8266-Powered Mini Drone: ESPcopter, a programmable Arduino-compatible modular drone that is open to modding through expansion shields. Not
Read MoreUbisoft recently announced it’d be collaborating on a game design course with Concordia University — and now we know the course apparently involves making a For Honor spin-off game that’ll reflect the student’s progress. The online course is called “Game Creators Odyssey,” which recalls Ubisoft‘s latest Assassin’s Creed game. It’s a two-part course, though only “Act 1”
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