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Dive Brief: Amazon took a hit on Wall Street late Thursday when it reported fourth quarter sales of $43.7 billion, up 22% year-over-year but missing the Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S consensus expectation for $44.68 billion. While Amazon posted Q4 net income of $749 million and earnings came in at $1.54 per share, compared to an expectation […]

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If you own an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap then you’ve definitely used the Amazon Alexa app. You need this free app (available in the Apple App Store, Google Play store, and Amazon Appstore) to set up your device. But are you getting the most out of this app? Alexa has over 7,000

When I want to stream locally stored media to my television, I turn to Plex. The popular service has apps for many devices such as Xbox One and Apple TV — both of which I own. Heck, even my Samsung 4K TV has Plex support built in. Ultimately, the value of the service is found

Talk to me. CNET Amazon’s Alexa was showered with attention at last month’s CES tech show in Las Vegas, as dozens of companies invited the voice assistant to live in their cars, washing machines and set-top boxes. Yet, behind all that luster is a somewhat uncomfortable question about Amazon’s 2-year-old artificial intelligence platform: Does Alexa

Most people are getting just a trickle of the high-speed Internet they are paying for. And most people have only themselves to blame. How do I know this? Even though I’m a tech columnist, until this month, I was most people. Over the past four years, I’ve jerry-rigged a Wi-Fi setup in my home to

Connected smart home company Wink today announced the addition of August Smart Locks into its collection of supported brands, which already includes GE, Nest, Philips, Schlage, and more. Now, any users who have an August Smart Lock paired with an August Connect (which provides remote access to the lock) can add their lock into the

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Enlarge Image August’s Smart Lock now works with Wink. Chris Monroe/CNET August’s Smart Lock today joined Wink’s lineup of compatible third-party smart home devices. The $229 DIY August Smart Lock — roughly £150 or AU$315, though it’s not widely available outside the US — retrofits to existing deadbolts. The lock communicates over Bluetooth for local