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Amazon’s Android app is getting Alexa voice assistant

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Amazon’s Alexa voice service first debuted with the Amazon Echo smart speaker in 2014. Since then it’s been integrated with Amazon’s Fire tablets and Fire TVs, additional speakers, and third party devices. This year we also saw the launch of the first Android phones with Alexa support, as well as the addition of Alexa to […]

Deals of the Day (7-20-2017)

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The ZTE Axon 7 was a bargain when it launched in 2016, offering near-flagship specs in a $400 package. But right now you can pick up the phone for $330, making it about half the price of a current flagship. With 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, the phone […]

Intel’s Neural Compute Stick brings machine learning to any PC

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Intel’s first few “Compute Stick” products were basically fully functional PCs packed into a tiny case with an HDMI connector that you could plug directly into a display. The latest Compute Sticknot th from Intel is a little different. Intel subsidiary Movidius has launched a Neural Compute Stick that you can plug into the USB […]

LG Q8 is like a smaller LG V20

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If you had your eye on last year’s LG V20 smartphone with a 5.7 inch display and a secondary screen above that one but didn’t want a 5.7 inch phone, now LG has another option. The company has just unveiled a new model called the LG Q8. It looks like the V20 and has similar specs. […]

Report: Intel pulls the plug on wearables

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The Basis Peak activity-tracking watch earned a reputation a few years ago as one of the most accurate wearables for tracking steps, heart rate, and other vital stats. So when Intel acquired Basis in 2014, it seemed like the company might be planning big things for the wearable space. But last summer the company issued […]

PCs with Intel Clover Trail chips can’t run latest Windows 10 builds

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It’s been about 5 years since Intel launched a line of Atom chips code-named “Clover Trail,” which were designed for tablets, convertibles, and netbooks. Intel ended support for those chips, a while back, and earlier this year some folks noticed that the Windows 10 Creators Update wouldn’t install on machines with Clover Trail chips. Now […]

Deals of the Day (7-19-2017)

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Over the past decade or so, Telltale Games has delivered a number of popular adventure games including titles in the Walking Dead, Batman, and Sam & Max series. With a number of game designers who had previously worked at LucasArts, the Telltale team is the closest thing you’re likely to find to a successor to […]

Android hacks: Magisk updated and Xposed comes to Nougat (kind of)

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Once upon a time if you wanted to totally change the look and feel of the Android software running on  your phone, your best bet was probably to install a custom ROM. Then along came the Xposed framework, which lets you make deep changes to Android by installing and customizing modules, making the process almost […]