You can now control your Roku with an Amazon Echo

From The Verge: After announcing support for Google Assistant last fall, Roku is today doing the same for Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. After installing the new Roku skill, you'll be able to control the company's streaming devices and Roku TVs with voice commands like “Alexa, open Hulu on Roku.”...

Thunderbolt 3 Merges With USB to Become USB4

From PC Mag: If your new laptop or desktop PC features a Thunderbolt 3 port, congratulations! This do-it-all connector can link virtually any peripheral—even ones that are daisy-chained together—at astonishing speeds of up to 40Gbps, all while delivering enough power to charge batteries, too.

But...

Oppo F11 Pro takes to India with a 48-megapixel rear camera

From CNET: The latest phone in Oppo's F series lineup is promising to dazzle you with beautiful photos. And its 48-megapixel rear camera lives up to that promise.

That rear camera is paired with a 5-megapixel depth sensor. And together the F11 Pro's cameras do a great job of capturing images with...

QNAP Officially Launches the TS-2888X AI-Ready NAS for Machine Learning

From QNAP Press Release: QNAP Systems, Inc. today officially launched the TS-2888X, an AI-Ready NAS specifically optimized for AI model training. Built using powerful Intel Xeon W processors with up to 18 cores and employing a flash-optimized hybrid storage architecture for IOPS-intensive workloads...

Huawei reportedly preparing to sue US government over ban

From CNET: Huawei is gearing up to sue the US government over the ban on federal agencies using its products, reports said Monday.

The Chinese telecom will file its lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas (its US headquarters is located in Plano, Texas) according to the New York Times and Reuters...

Amazon Pulls Anti-Vaccination Documentaries from Prime Video

From PC Mag: Amazon appears to be pulling anti-vaccination documentaries from the company's Prime Video service after a US lawmaker urged the tech giant to crack down on the content.

The documentaries Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, Man Made Epidemic, and Shoot' Em Up: The Truth About...

SteelSeries Rival 710 Review (Page 1 of 4)

Last weekend, our team at work decided to go out for dim sum. One thing I have learned about ordering dim sum from some of my co-workers is that there are different approaches to ordering. For someone like me, who has had this cuisine since I was little, I have my favorites that I will often order. This includes har gow, shumai, and cheung fun, or steamed shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, and rice noodle rolls, in English. There are other things...

Cooler Master MK850 Review

In the computer gaming world, the genre of racing games exists in a league of its own. Most other genres of games -- first person shooters, role playing, sports, construction and management simulation, you name it -- can be played well with a keyboard and mouse. In fact, I would argue games like first person shooters are best played with a keyboard and mouse as opposed to a gamepad. But when it comes to racing games, playing with a keyboard is...

Android can now wake you with YouTube Music or Pandora

From The Verge: Pandora and YouTube Music have been added as alarm options to the Google Clock app, Android’s default alarm clock. The functionality was added with version 6.1 of the app, and announced by the Twitter accounts of both streaming services.

This isn’t the first time you’ve been able to...

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