From The Verge: Amazon has announced that it’s shutting down Alexa Guard — a DIY security feature for Echo devices that listens for intruders or household alarms when you’re away from home. The free version of Alexa Guard that listens for household disturbances was included as a standard feature on...
From CNET: Microsoft appears to be one step closer to closing its $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority says Microsoft has remedied the regulatory issues laid out earlier in the year, according to a press release Friday. The...
From Toms Hardware: Intel's 14th Generation Core series set to be released this year includes codenamed Meteor Lake processors for laptops and codenamed Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs for desktops. The exact reason why Intel decided to release its codenamed Meteor Lake processors only for notebooks this...
A couple of weeks ago, my friend and colleague, Jonathan Kwan, became a married man. He had asked me to be one of his groomsmen, so the day included a couple of responsibilities on top of the festivities. During the rehearsal, we realized Jonathan picked the Top Gun anthem to walk down to, so as a group we decided to get aviators and all walk down in sunglasses. If you have not seen me before, you should know I wear glasses and my prescription is...
Calgary has an amazing summer season. The weather is warm but not too hot. The mountains are beautiful and there is so much to explore. The evenings in general cool off quite nicely. And if you are a car nut, then you have even more to enjoy. Summer in Calgary brings out the many different sports cars that people own but cannot drive in the winter. Especially in certain quadrants of the city, particularly the southwest area, it is not uncommon to...
From The Verge: Amazon has announced plans to start placing “limited advertisements” in TV shows and movies running on the company’s Prime Video streaming platform, to allow the e-commerce giant to “continue investing in compelling content.” According to Amazon’s press release, the ads will first be...
From PC World: Microsoft has apparently decided to make the Surface Go line of tiny tablets a purely business device, announcing the Surface Go 4 for Business but without a consumer option. What’s new? The lack of Arm options and a new Intel processor.
Microsoft didn’t reveal a starting price for...
From CNET: At Microsoft's AI and Surface event on Thursday, the software giant announced a new product, Copilot, which it calls "your everyday AI companion." Copilot will be included in the next major Windows 11 update, scheduled for Sept. 26, with Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft vice president, saying it's...
From Cooler Master Press Release: Cooler Master has today announced two groundbreaking products that promise to overhaul the way we think about building PCs: the Qube 500 Flatpack PC case and the next-gen MasterLiquid Atmos liquid cooler series. Both products epitomize the brand’s commitment to...
From The Verge: Amazon’s Alexa is about to come out of its shell, and what emerges could be very interesting. At its fall hardware event Wednesday, the company revealed an all-new Alexa voice assistant powered by its new Alexa large language model. According to Dave Limp, Amazon’s current SVP of...
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