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Amazon’s $90 Echo Show 5 is a smaller, cheaper smart display

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Amazon’s 3rd-gen Echo Show smart display is called the Amazon Echo Show 5… which sort of makes sense because the name refers to the screen size rather than the generation. Rather than replacing the 2nd-gen Echo Show, the new model will be sold alongside it as a smaller, less expensive option. The Echo Show 5 […]

Report: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds

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Amazon’s first attempt to launch a smartphone wasn’t exactly a huge success, but the company took an early lead in the voice assistant space with its surprisingly popular Alexa-enabled line of devices including smart speakers, smart displays, and third-party devices including headphones and speakers. Now Bloomberg reports Amazon is hoping to launch a new Alexa […]

Lilbits 349: The 5G smartphones are coming

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Mobile World Congress is a little more than a week away, and we’ll likely see new phones from companies including Samsung, Huawei, HMD (Nokia), and others, as well as other devices (Microsoft, for example, is expected to introduce its next-gen HoloLens mixed reality headset). It’s likely that we’ll also hear a lot about 5G. Next-gen […]

Lilbits 346: You can’t always judge a laptop by its specs

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When I picked up my latest laptop I opted for a model with an Intel Core i5-8250U processor after realizing that I’d have to spend several hundred dollars more to get a version with a Core i7-8550U chip… and most benchmarks I’ve seen suggest that the Core i7 chip is only a little faster. But depending […]

Project Alias hacks your smart speaker so it’s only listening when you want

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There’s something kind of magical about saying “Alexa” or “OK Google” to get a weather forecast, recipe, navigation directions, or to play music or control your smart home appliances. There’s also something a little creepy about it since you need to have an always-listening, internet-connected speaker in your house to do those things. Sure, Google […]

Asus Lyra Voice is a mesh WiFi router and an Alexa smart speaker

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Over the past few years I’ve seen a growing number of smart speakers and mesh networking gear at the Consumer Electronics Show. So it’s not surprising at all that somebody decided to combine both of those technologies into a single product. The Asus Lyra Voice is a tri-band WiFi router that’s also a wireless speaker with […]

Archos reveals a pair of Alexa smart displays ahead of CES

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Like dozens of other manufacturers, Archos is packing its bags and heading to Las Vegas for CES 2019. The company will have plenty of new gear on display, some of which they’re obviously very excited about. So excited, in fact, that they couldn’t wait for CES to show it off. Archos is expanding their lineup […]



Now you can use Alexa on any Windows 10 PC

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This year Amazon started partnering with PC makers to ship select computers with an Alexa voice assistant app pre-installed, letting you talk to your computer to get answers to questions, set reminders, control music playback, or interact with smart home gear among other things. Now you can do most of those things on any Windows […]