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Amazon Echo Auto
Add Alexa to your car: connects to the Alexa app on your phone and plays through your car speakers via auxiliary input jack or your smartphone’s Bluetooth connection. Includes air vent mount. Designed for the road: with 8 microphones and far-field technology, Echo Auto can hear you over music, air…
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Amazon Echo Show 8
Alexa can show you more: with an 8″ HD screen and stereo sound, Alexa can help you manage your day at a glance. Connect with video calling and messaging: call friends and family who have the Alexa app or an Echo device with a screen. Make announcements to other devices…
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Amazon Claim Echo Auto Already Has 1 Million Pre-Orders
Amazon Echo Auto With so many homes currently having some form of smart product, it’s hardly surprising that sooner or later someone would bring the technology into cars. It would, after all, be far more convenient to have a device that could work off voice commands. Be it either to…
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Google Set to Pull YouTube From Amazon Fire and Echo
Google raise tensions with Amazon by withdrawing YouTube from Fire and Echo For many years Google and Amazon have had reasonably good relations. This is largely due to the fact that neither of companies operations has largely interfered with the other. In recent years, however, things have changed. Conflicts have…
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German Police Break in Apartment After Amazon Alexa Goes Rogue
Police from Hamburg recently had to break into an apartment at 2AM in the morning. All because of complaints of loud party music playing. However, once police were inside there was nobody home. The flat’s owner Oliver Haberstroh went out to a bar Friday night when the event happened. Apparently,…
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Garmin Speak is an Amazon Echo Dot For Your Car
The new Garmin Speak is the latest gadget for your automobile. If it looks like an Amazon Echo Dot, that is because it essentially is one. Garmin teamed up with Amazon to bring the product to market. In return, Amazon gets to spread Alexa’s domain further beyond just home use.…
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Google Building Their Own Smart Screen Device
Google and Amazon had a bit of a spat a few days ago when the search engine giant blocked Echo Show devices from accessing YouTube. The video streaming service is an essential feature on the Echo Show, which is often useful for viewing video recipes while in the kitchen. Now,…
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Amazon Announces Several New Echo Hardware
Amazon unveiled several new Alexa-enabled hardware on Wednesday at their press event. Namely several new additions to the Echo family. The original Echo speaker debuted back in 2014 so its time for an update anyway. The new announcements include the next gen Echo, Echo Spot, Echo Plus, Echo Connect and…
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Google Blocked YouTube Access on the Amazon Echo Show
In a surprising move, Google has apparently blocked Amazon’s Echo Show device from accessing YouTube. The Echo Show is a touch-screen version of the Amazon Echo which is handy for vid-coms and watching videos. For many, it is a convenient addition to the kitchen. Which is an easy way to…
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Google Home Mini Arriving on October 4
Google is set to announce their upcoming Pixel 2 phone in San Francisco on October 4. However, this is not the only product which will debut on stage. According to Droid-life, a more compact version of the Google Home is also due to arrive at that date. The official name…
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Spotify Music Streaming Service Looking to Create Their Own Hardware
Following popular social media sharing website Snapchat’s lead with the release of their own Spectacles hardware tied to their own platform, it appears that streaming music service Spotify is also looking to build a mobile device and venture into hardware wearables. Spotify is looking for a Senior Hardware Product manager…
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Amazon Echo Potential Witness to Murder
Police in the US have requested server records of a particular Amazon Echo device in relation to a murder. The Amazon Echo system – a multimedia speaker with voice control, used to interact with Amazon personal assistant, Alexa – belongs to James Andrew Bates of Arkansas, who is accused of…
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China’s LingLong Want to Add Alexa to DingDong!
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing China’s answer to the Amazon Echo, the LingLong DingDong. Just in case you missed that, it’s called the LingLong DingDong. You’d be forgiven in thinking that this was the ramblings of some chubby western bloke, trying to convince his mates down at the local pub that…
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Las Vegas Wynn to Install 4700 Amazon Echos
Amazon has been having a lot of success with their Echo and Echo dot devices, as well as the built-in Alexa AI. We should know, the eTeknix boss has 7 of them, and I’ve got 2, doing all kinds of home automation magic. Now the Wynn in Las Vegas is…
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Smart Home Automation Review – Control of Your Home
Introduction There’s a technology boom going on right now in the IoT sector, with a huge number of smart and connected devices hitting the market, and consumers mopping them up, especially so in the recent Black Friday sales, where many smart home automation systems were heavily discounted. From Amazon Alexa,…
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