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Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge When dealing with an aging parent, Alexa was a great help — in both practical and emotionally important ways. About two years ago, I got a call from my mother. “You know,” she said, “that Alexa is really working out. I was feeling a little depressed, so I told…
Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge The Echo ecosystem has seen its fair share of failures while trying to popularize Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant. For the past decade, Amazon has aspired for Alexa to be more than just a convenient way to start a cooking timer. To convince consumers of the smart assistant’s potential, the…
Image: Mojo Wang for The Verge Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away. The first Amazon Echo, all the way back in 2014, was pitched as a device for a few simple things: playing music, asking basic…
Officials in southwest Washington state have retrieved about 475 damaged ballots from a ballot box that was damaged in a fire sparked by incendiary devices – an act of arson that local police and the FBI are investigating. The damaged ballots, which are separate from an unknown number that were destroyed, are being searched through…
The Taliban has once again taken steps to further impose extreme restrictions on women under its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, this time banning women from “hearing other women’s voices” while they pray, reports said this week. Khalid Hanafi, acting minister of the Vice and Virtue Ministry, made the announcement over a voice message posted to the…
Only 1,000 units of the Phone (2a) and Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be produced. | Image: Nothing Nothing has announced a new version of its Phone 2A Plus featuring a customized glow-in-the-dark design and packaging created in part by some of the company’s “most talented followers.” The Phone 2A Plus Community Edition is…
FIRST ON FOX: Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America, a group that seeks to “end abortion” in the United States, has knocked on 4 million doors in swing states to reach voters they say can be persuaded to oppose candidates and ballot initiatives that would expand abortion access. Earlier this year, the group set out an…
American voters worry that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas will escalate into a larger regional conflict in the Middle East, a new poll finds. While Democrats and Republicans both agree that the ongoing war is a problem and both are wary of U.S. involvement in the Middle East, there’s a stark partisan divide…
The Profile Wireless microphones can be clipped or magnetically attached to clothing. | Image: Sennheiser Sennheiser has announced a new portable wireless microphone kit designed to be an affordable and flexible all-in-one solution for content creators and videographers. The Profile Wireless system features a wireless receiver that can be connected to various devices, a pair…
Voters in the nation’s capital weighed in on the news that major outlets, including the hometown Washington Post, refused to endorse a presidential candidate with Election Day rapidly approaching. The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, along with several other papers, are deliberately not picking between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris; both…