Tag: Technology & Electronics
The Morning After: Amazon turns Alexa into a more conversational chatbot for your home
Amid a barrage of Amazon-branded tablets and Alexa-powered tech, Dave Limp, SVP of Amazon Devices and Services, announced the company’s digital assistant will soon tap into a purpose-built large language model (LLM) for almost every new Echo device. Amazon set out to design the LLM based on five foundational capabilities.…
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Fujifilm’s Instax Pal is a tiny digital camera that lets you print later
With its latest Instax camera, Fujifilm has separated the camera from the printer. The Instax Pal is a tiny palm-sized 4.9-megapixel (MP) camera that takes digital photos, then lets you print them to the bundled Instax Mini Link 2 printer with a variety of effects via the new Instax Pal…
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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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Amazon Echo Frames (3rd-gen) hands-on: Refined look, better sound, faster Alexa
Amazon’s smart glasses have yet to impress us, but the company made big changes for its third-gen Echo Frames that could go along way in changing our minds. First, the company has upgraded the design, slimming down the area around your temples that houses all of the components. Amazon has…
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Amazon’s new Echo Frames promise longer battery life and better audio
Amazon’s smart glasses are getting their first significant update in more than two years, the company announced during its annual fall event on Wednesday. The latest version of the Echo Frames will ship with a longer battery life and redesigned audio experience, along with several new colors and styles. The…
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Amazon’s Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI
Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its annual fall event on Wednesday, highlighting the device’s new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities. Generative AI helps the Echo Show 8 respond dynamically to the user’s position in the physical world, offering different displays depending on how far away someone…
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