The Verge: Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, Alexa Eye Gaze to control devices, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more — Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Amazon announces updated Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, offering enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation, and six hours of battery for $270 — Amazon today unveiled a new generation of Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, with enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation and a $269.99 price tag.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Google’s smart home strategy has seen many false starts over the last decade and a half. From the early 2010 iteration of Google TV to the ill-fated Nexus Q, everything was funky and experimental. Then Google Assistant and the first Google Home
Read MoreImage: Uber Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps and healthcare benefits as payment for grocery delivery orders, the company announced Wednesday. It also plans to add a new AI assistant that it says will help grocery customers get better deals. Anyone with a valid Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card, which disburses funds for the
Read MoreImage: Amazon Amazon just announced a new version of its Alexa-equipped Echo Frames audio glasses at its September 2023 devices event. The new glasses are quite stylish and have some tech improvements, too. One big tech change is improved battery life. At the event, Amazon said that the new Echo Frames have six hours of
Read MoreThis mesh system adds Wi-Fi 7 support and can theoretically download a 4K movie in 10 seconds, but it’ll be a few years before you can truly take advantage of those speeds.
Read MoreElectric scooters are in vogue, and for good reason. If you need to get around at a pace and don’t have the ability or inclination to cycle, e-scooters offer you a smooth ride. The Razor C45 scooter is an affordable option for first-time buyers, especially at this all-time low deal price of $499.99. Razor C45
Read MoreImage: CD Projekt Red I was genuinely surprised how much I enjoyed revisiting Cyberpunk 2077 as part of its major new update. I dutifully played through Cyberpunk 2077 in the weeks after its rocky December 2020 launch, but I always felt that it was aggressively fine. I loved sneaking through levels as a netrunner that
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More authors sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, joining other writers in pursuing legal action against generative AI companies for using their books to train AI models. The Authors Guild and 17 well-known authors like Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult filed the lawsuit in
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon announces the $150 Echo Show 8 with a new design, a centered camera, a smart home hub, Spatial Audio, and a changing home screen based on proximity — Amazon kicked off today’s Fall Devices Event with an update to its Echo Show 8. The small smart screen features smart home
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Apple has added numerous features to the iPhone with iOS 17, and one of the most notable is Contact Poster — a way for you to create your own digital calling card through images, colors, and text. Here’s how it works: when you call someone iPhone to iPhone
Read MoreSony makes some of the finest headphones on the market, and its premier gaming headset is now subject to a record markdown on Amazon. If you catch it in time, the Sony INZONE H9 deal drops the headset price from $300 to $243.80. Sony INZONE H9 wireless gaming headset for $243.80 ($56 off)
Read MoreA sweeping upgrade to Amazon’s Alexa taps AI technology like that behind ChatGPT and also allows the virtual assistant to attempt to read body language.
Read MoreApple has added the M2 Ultra Mac Pro to its refurbished store for the first time.
Read MoreSmugglers. | Image: TIFF From the uncomfortably comedic horror of Dream Scenario to the outlandish heist / revenge movie Smugglers, there was a lot to love in Toronto this year. Continue reading…
Read MoreApple might have made some serious headway when it comes to repairability in the iPhone 15 series, but cracked or broken screens are still a major bummer. To protect your new phone’s display, we’ve selected the best iPhone 15 screen protectors you can buy for all sizes and models. Best iPhone 15 screen protectors Spigen
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Legit Security, which helps identify app vulnerabilities from code, raised a $40M Series B led by CRV, taking its total funding to $77M — Legit Security, a cybersecurity company developing a platform to identify app vulnerabilities from code, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led …
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: DeepMind researchers detail Optimization by PROmpting to improve LLM performance by using “meta-prompts” like “take a deep breath”, which helped Google’s PaLM 2 — DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.
Read MoreImage: Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’d rather format your Google Docs document using text shortcuts than keyboard ones, you can — Google Docs offers Markdown support. Back in March 2022, in a blog post announcing the feature, Google explained it was doing this through its autocorrect feature so that Docs will automatically format
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s big fall product event comes from a smaller company and with big AI expectations. Continue reading…
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19th, 2023. | Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration launched new climate funding and jobs programs today as world leaders — minus Joe Biden — gather for the
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit alleging OpenAI violated privacy rights for training data dropped their case against the company. Court documents showed the case was dismissed without prejudice, and the plaintiffs can choose to refile. The lawsuit, first filed in June this year in the Northern District of California, alleged OpenAI’s
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple came close to creating an investing feature for the iPhone that would’ve let users buy and sell stocks directly on the device, according to a report from CNBC. The company reportedly started working on the investing feature during the meme stock hype in 2020 but ultimately pivoted away from the idea
Read MoreIllustration by The Verge After a tease in a blog post on Tuesday, Substack officially shared details about its redesigned app on Wednesday, which offers a new “Home” tab and some adjustments to the app’s current layout. The biggest change is the Home tab, which is intended to help people find stuff to read by
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