Month: September 2023
The new Echo Show 8 is smarter, speedier, and knows when you get close
And Echo Show 8 makes three! Amazon now has three smart home hubs, with the Echo Show 8 (third-gen) joining the newly announced Echo Hub and existing fourth-gen Echo smart speaker in sporting both Thread and Zigbee connectivity. These wireless radios, along with Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, and Sidewalk, mean the…
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All the hilarious corporate BS you might have missed in the Xbox leaks
It's the day after the largest document leak in Xbox's history, and now that the important news is on the record, we can all take a step back and process the ridiculousness of the whole situation. One facet that made the debacle so delicious was the insight into Xbox's corporate…
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X ranks the lowest among all social media in combating climate disinformation, study finds
Climate change misinformation — including that which is funded by the fossil fuel industry — continues to thrive on social media. While Google, YouTube, Meta, and TikTok are all still lagging in their moderation of climate denial content, X (formerly Twitter) appears to have no clear policies on what to do with…
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Panasonic cuts the wires from its SoundSlayer neck speaker for gamers
Companies keep trying to make neck speakers a thing. People must be buying them, though, because Panasonic is releasing a new one: the GNW10 SoundSlayer, a wireless neck speaker with AI voice isolation (which it confusingly calls “AI voice control”) for phone calls and in-game voice chat. The SoundSlayer is…
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Amazon’s new Wi-Fi 7-ready eero Max 7 mesh router has the super-fast internet you deserve
Amazon’s Big Devices event 2023 revealed the latest in gadgets, new tech, and smart devices from the tech giant, but one of the biggest announcements was the eero Max 7, its first Wi-Fi 7-ready mesh router system. A mesh router is meant for larger spaces that require even Wi-Fi coverage,…
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Everything Amazon announced at its 2023 Devices and Services event
Amazon’s fall hardware event was chock full of updates. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the generative AI boom from the last year, the company began transforming Alexa into a much more versatile and conversational personal chatbot. But it also had plenty of new hardware to introduce, with new models of the Echo…
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