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Amazon Echo Spot Just Hit Its Lowest Price for 2025
Brand Amazon Display 2.83” touch screen Dimensions 4.5″W x 4.1″D x 4.4″H Weight 14.3oz The 2024 Amazon Echo Spot is a versatile smart display with a 5.5-inch touchscreen, ideal for video calls, streaming, and controlling smart home devices. With Alexa built-in, enjoy hands-free voice commands, rich sound quality, and seamless integration with your daily routines. The Amazon Echo Spot smart…
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Gen V returns to Amazon for season 2 this September
At this year’s CCXP convention in Mexico, Amazon announced that Gen V is set to return for its second season on September 17th with a three episode premiere. Along with the premiere date news, Amazon also released a new trailer teasing some of the challenges Marie (Jaz Sinclair), Emma (Lizze Broadway), Jordan (London Thor and Derek Luh), are going to…
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Arc Ultra Soundbar
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Illustration by Ian Moore and product image courtesy of Amazon. Sonos makes some of the best smart speakers, surround sound systems, and headphones available. It has a very similar business model to Apple: premium prices for minimalist design…
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Beam Gen 2
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Illustration by Ian Moore and product image courtesy of Amazon. Sonos appears to have co-opted Apple’s business strategy: making premium products that are user-friendly for high prices. People will buy them whether they’re discounted or not, apparently, but…
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sonos Roam 2 Portable Speaker
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Illustration by Ian Moore and product image courtesy of Amazon. When it comes to speakers, Sonos has the best reputation and the best companion app on the market. If you’re interested in seeing what the hype is all…
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The iPad Mini A17 Pro
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Illustration by Ian Moore and product image courtesy of Amazon. The latest iPad mini 7 was released in Oct. of 2024, bringing a smaller and more compact design with Apple Intelligence features to the already smallest iPad on…
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My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: Galaxy S25 Edge Preorders
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Illustration by Ian Moore and product image courtesy of Amazon. Samsung announced the new Galaxy S25 Series back in January, and later that same month teased a fourth, thinner phone, the Galaxy S25 Edge. It wasn’t until earlier…
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Amazon claims it’s ‘constantly inviting’ new customers to Alexa Plus
Yesterday, Reuters ran a story with the headline “Weeks after Amazon’s Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?,” in which it detailed its difficulty locating first-hand accounts of the AI-upgraded assistants’ use online. The Verge asked Amazon about the story, and the company has responded to say that the idea that Alexa Plus isn’t available is “simply wrong.”…
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Amazon invents another robot — this time with feeling! – Computerworld
If you’re familiar with my views on anthropomorphization (i.e., “humanizing”) of robots and AI, you might guess what I’m about to say. Amazon says its Vulcan robot can feel (without quotation marks). This isn’t true. When a robot like Vulcan “feels” something, it uses sensors that measure force, pressure, and sometimes texture or shape, turning these signals into data that AI can…
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Amazon develops a robot that ‘feels’ touch, just like its human workers
Amazon has announced a new AI-infused warehouse robot that it says has a sense of touch. This allows the Vulcan robot to pick and stow roughly three-quarters of the items stocked in the company’s warehouses, a task that was previously handled predominantly by human workers. “Vulcan represents a fundamental leap forward in robotics,” says Aaron Parness, Amazon’s director of applied…
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