Author: Zach_Wilson
Google Assistant now works with Tile to find your lost stuff
Google Assistant is today rolling out support for Tile’s Bluetooth tracker, designed to help you keep up with your often misplaced items — like your keys, purse, wallet, remote, and more. The new integration will allow Google Assistant users on any Nest device to ask questions like, “Hey Google, where…
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Year 5 of Acer Predator Gaming PAX East After Party could be the best yet
Acer Predator Gaming is returning to PAX East for the fifth year of its epic, tech- and gaming-filled After Party. On Friday, February 28th, PAXers will leave the Boston Convention Center en masse to continue the fun at Royale Boston. After the doors open at 9 pm, guests will have…
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Disney teases a flying animatronic Spider-Man for its upcoming Disneyland Avengers Campus
When Disney Imagineering revealed in 2018 that it was working on “Stuntronics”, its own brand of stunt-double animatronics designed to perform aerial tricks, demo videos of its prototype robots conjured up images of superheroes flying through the air. Now the robots are suited up and Disney is unveiling their true…
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Byte tops a million downloads amid spam issues and content concerns
New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine’s successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues. The app, built by Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, brings back the six-second videos made popular by Vine which was shut down in late 2016 after Twitter’s acquisition of the popular video-sharing platform.…
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Daily Crunch: Hulu CEO steps down
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Hulu restructures under Disney, CEO Randy Freer departs Hulu CEO Randy Freer is stepping down from…
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Venture investing in elder tech
Will Robbins Contributor Senior citizens are not early adopters of new technology; many of our 65+ friends and family might not use much tech in the first place. That said, two-thirds of America’s 50 million seniors use the internet and more than 40% own a smartphone, according to a 2017…
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