Amazon's Alexa-powered Echo and Echo Dot arrive in the UK and Germany
We suspected it was happening and now Amazon has confirmed it. The Amazon Echo and smaller Echo Dot are coming to the U.K. and Germany, Amazon’s first releases outside of the U.S. for its voice-controlled speaker and smart home hub. In in the case of Germany, this is Amazon’s first release in a non-English language for its Alexa voice-controlled assistant. “Millions of customers in the US have already fallen in love with Alexa and we are thrilled that it now speaks German,” said Jeff Bezos, fo..>> view originalSamsung Plans Software Update to Cut Galaxy Note 7 Fire Risk
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There are plenty of advantages Apple’s iPhone lineup has over rival smartphones. They’re faster, smoother and far more refined by most measures, and they’re supported by a third-party app ecosystem with quality that is completely unmatched. Every smartphone supports apps, of course, but none are as consistent as iOS apps and none offer the same level of quality. Even big-name developers that develop apps for multiple platforms have said as much. But nothing is perfect, of course, and iOS defini..>> view originalRussian scientists are 'besieged' by polar bears at a remote Arctic post
A group of hungry polar bears are circling Russian scientists at a remote weather outpost in the Arctic. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) A team of Russian weather experts claim that their station on an ice-covered Arctic isle is "besieged" by polar bears, according to a report by Russian news agency TASS. The five researchers charged with staffing the outpost on Troynoy Island say that there are about 10 adult polar bears as well as cubs circling their base. A female polar bear spends..>> view originalOur Reporter Goes for a Spin in a Self-Driving Uber Car
To catch up, Uber spent $680 million — roughly 1 percent of the company’s value — to buy Otto and its team of robotics veterans. Based in San Francisco, Uber has also poured millions of dollars into hiring hundreds of employees and spent more than 18 months getting the Advanced Technologies Center here in Pittsburgh, the home of its self-driving initiative, off the ground.One lingering question over the effort is how driverless cars affect Uber’s business model. Much of the company’s success ha..>> view originalTwitter app brings free NFL games to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and the Xbox One
As previously rumored, Twitter is launching a new version of its app today for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Microsoft’s Xbox One. As you might expect from an app designed to be used on your TV, the focus here is on watching live-streaming video and browsing curated content from Vine and Periscope — not just seeing abuse from random Twitter eggs on the biggest screen in your house. NFL’s Thursday Night Football games will all be streamed via the app (and will be free to access without a pay TV ..>> view originalApple Watch Series 2 review: work it out
Let’s call it what it is: a fitness tracker. The Apple Watch Series 2 is exactly that. It’s what Apple had resisted calling its wearable for the past year and a half, even declining to categorize it as such when citing industry rankings, opting for the “smartwatch” category instead. It is, definitely, still a smartwatch. But the Watch now has focus, and that’s a good thing. From the first Apple Watch, which came out in April of 2015, Apple learned that lots of people were using it primaril..>> view originalApple of my ear: The iPhone 7's missed audio opportunity
A version of this essay was originally published at Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight and perspective on the tech industry. Apple has a long, rich history in the fields of music and audio, and its complex and highly influential relationship with those fields was on display once again at the company’s recent iPhone 7 launch event. The biggest audio-related news of the event was, of course, the removal of the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7. The i..>> view original
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Amazon's Alexa-powered Echo and Echo Dot arrive in the UK and Germany and other top stories.
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