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Everything announced at Amazon’s Alexa+ AI event
Amazon held its first major product event of the year on Wednesday and, as expected, it was largely (okay, entirely) about Alexa. The company first announced its next-gen, AI-powered voice assistant back in 2023, but technical issues forced Amazon to delay its formal unveiling and rollout. Amazon's hardware chief, Panos…
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Alexa+ is a smarter, more conversational AI version of Amazon’s digital assistant
Following years of development, Amazon's next-generation digital assistant is nearly ready for public use. Panos Panay, senior vice president of devices and services, demoed Alexa+ at the company's 2025 devices event, and it gave a glimpse of how generative AI could supercharge a product millions of people use. The model…
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The best Apple Watch in 2025
If you know you want an Apple Watch, but aren’t sure which one to get, this guide is here to explain the differences between the three models. The company’s flagship Apple Watch Series 10 has robust fitness tracking and health monitoring, as well as helpful iPhone integrations. We named it…
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iPhones are briefly changing ‘racist’ to ‘Trump’ due to an iOS dictation issue
A bizarre bug is causing iPhones to automatically change the word “racist” to “Trump” when using the built-in dictation feature in iOS. The issue, which seems to have been discovered by TikTok users, crops up when using the voice-to-text feature in Apple apps like Messages. When speaking the word “racist,”…
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Samsung’s 9100 PRO SSD line includes its first 8TB NVMe model for consumers
Samsung’s new 9100 PRO Series solid-state drives (SSDs) include the company’s first consumer-grade 8TB NVMe SSD. The latest models use the speedy PCIe 5.0 standard, which — unless you train AI models for a living — is almost certainly overkill for your PC needs. The Samsung 9100 PRO series offers…
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Razer announced a refreshed Blade 18 laptop with a dual mode display
Razer just announced a refresh to the popular Blade 18 gaming laptop. This model uses those newly-released Intel Core Ultra 200HX series processors and can be purchased with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. As the name suggests, it also boasts a ginormous display, which Razer describes as “the world’s…
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