Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sonos To Release A Speaker With Amazon's Alexa Assistant and other top stories.

  • Sonos To Release A Speaker With Amazon's Alexa Assistant

    Sonos To Release A Speaker With Amazon's Alexa Assistant
    Sonos To Release A Speaker With Amazon’s Alexa Assistant Sonos will release a speaker featuring Amazon’s Alexa artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Patrick Spence revealed during a recent interview with Variety. Spence said that an Alexa-powered device will be released by Sonos in the future and reiterated the firm’s intention to update its existing product lineup with support for Amazon’s AI assistant. More specifically, Alexa will be able..
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  • Sony's $300 Ultra HD Blu-ray player will arrive in March

    Sony's $300 Ultra HD Blu-ray player will arrive in March
    The XBR-X930E and XBR-X940E are at the top of the line, with a slim backlighting system that Sony claims can provide 10x the contrast of most LED-lit TVs and a more powerful processor that's supposed to adjust the contrast on each individual object in a picture. In the middle are the XBR-900E with full array local dimming and a step-down processor, followed by the XBR-800E/XBR-X850E that drops the local dimming.In terms of price, they go from a 43-inch XBR-43X800E that's $1,000, to the top of t..
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  • Tesla Owners Can Now Check For Empty Supercharger Stations In Real Time

    Tesla Owners Can Now Check For Empty Supercharger Stations In Real Time
    If you own a vehicle from carmaker Tesla you will be pleased to learn that locating an empty Supercharger station is about to get simpler. Tesla has activated a much awaited feature that will enable users to check the occupancy of the Supercharger stall in real time. The in-car Supercharger stall status will be live and let vehicle owners see how many stalls are available or occupied at a particular station. Making available the in-car Supercharger station status accessibility notification was ..
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  • This Year's 'Call Of Duty' Will Take The Series 'Back To Its Roots'

    This Year's 'Call Of Duty' Will Take The Series 'Back To Its Roots'
    In a recently held earnings call for the company's performance in the fourth quarter of 2016, Activision revealed that the Call of the Duty franchise will be going "back to its roots" with this year's release in the series. Such a move might pay off for Call of Duty and Activision, as Capcom has found success in Resident Evil 7 by once again making horror as the game's focus. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Fails To Meet Expectations In the conference call, Activision COO Thomas Tippl said that ..
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  • Facebook's new Oculus gloves let you type in VR

    Facebook's new Oculus gloves let you type in VR
    You need special controllers to manage virtual reality environments, but Facebook is already working on a different kind of accessory that would give you a lot more freedom in VR. Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a post that the Oculus gloves would let you interact with VR and AR (augmented reality) without having to hold any physical controllers. The gloves would even let you type in VR, something that’s not possible right now. “We’re working on new ways to bring your hands in virtual and augmen..
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  • Twitch launches Communities to help gamers organize around their shared interests

    Twitch launches Communities to help gamers organize around their shared interests
    Twitch’s push to broaden the scope of its video game streaming site to include more types of content continues today with the launch of a new section on its site called “Communities.” Designed to cater to users’ unique interests, this section initially contains hundreds of categories, some of which build on top of gamers’ interests as well as those that don’t. Here, you’ll find dedicated sections devoted to topics like cosplay, drawing, painting, comedy, food, music and more. Plus, Twitch says..
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  • Samsung Galaxy S8 specs: Hello curved screen, AI assistant, and goodbye home button?

    Samsung Galaxy S8 specs: Hello curved screen, AI assistant, and goodbye home button?
    The Galaxy S8 may come with a curved screen like the one on this, the Galaxy S7 Edge. CNET/CBS Interactive The Galaxy S8 is shaping up to be perhaps the most important smartphone Samsung has ever developed, and rumours about the details of its specs continue to emerge.According to The Wall Street Journal the home button may be removed from the front of the smartphone and moved to the back, freeing up space for t..
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  • BeatsX Earphones Launch on Apple Store for $150

    BeatsX Earphones Launch on Apple Store for $150
    Apple today officially launched its much-anticipated BeatsX Earphones on its online store for $149.95, after initially delaying the earphones from Fall 2016 and into February 2017. With the delay of BeatsX, Apple focused on the December launch of the AirPods, which have subsequently become hard to come by for those interested in Apple's own Bluetooth headphones. Apple's website states shipping times of 1 business day for the White and Black color options, and 7-10 business days for Blue and G..
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  • Windows 10's Cortana adds Suggested Reminders to help you keep your promises

    Windows 10's Cortana adds Suggested Reminders to help you keep your promises
    Windows 10’s Cortana is already a dutiful digital assistant, providing answers, reminders, or other information when asked. But Microsoft has given her more power to take the initiative, automatically setting reminders for commitments you’ve already agreed to. Take an email, for example. You may have promised your boss that you’ll deliver a sales presentation by Friday. Just in case you’ve forgotten, Cortana will automatically issue what Microsoft is calling a “suggested reminder” the day..
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  • Logo for Samsung's Bixby AI assistant shows up in trademark filing

    Logo for Samsung's Bixby AI assistant shows up in trademark filing
    We first heard about Bixby back in December, with Samsung unintentionally confirming the AI assistant shortly after, and with today's reveal of what could possibly be the logo, all that's left is for the company to showcase it in action, possibly in March or April when the Galaxy S8 will be announced. Samsung filed a trademark application on Feb 5 with the European Trade Mark and Design Network for Bixby’s logo. As you can see in the document (with application number 016343931) below, the logo..
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