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Amazon Announces the Amazon Fire TV Cube with Alexa Support

In 2014, Amazon released the original , a compact set-top box that brought improved smart TV functionality millions. Shortly after, the offered many of the same features in an even smaller form factor, and at less than half the price. Today, Amazon has announced the next generation Fire TV device. The brings full Alexa voice …

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Amazon Alexa’s Latest Target: TVs and More

Since the release of the Echo and Alexa, Amazon periodically updates its device with the latest software version, which includes brand new features every week. For this week, Amazon has added support for televisions that aren’t necessarily Alexa compatible out of the box and other TV related devices like the Logitech Harmony and Broadlink products. Using Alexa, …

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Nest or No Nest? 3 Things to Consider Before Buying

Everyone who’s into the latest smart home innovations has heard about the Nest Thermostat. Nest was probably the most public of the early IoT smart home devices thanks to a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Today, they are nearly ubiquitous, and everyone knows it learns your temperature habits so eventually you don’t even have to program …

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These Robots are better than Amazon Echo – Alexa powers Lynx and Hugo

With the success of Amazon Echo many third-party companies are building devices and services to house Alexa, the voice assistant that underpins the Echo hardware and endows it with intelligence. Two such companies, Hubble Connected and Ubtech, have both launched designs meant to give a new body to the Alexa voice assistant in the hopes that their …

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Top 5 Best Smart Home Hubs of 2016

A smart home hub controls communications in a home automation network between home automation device automatically or on-command. A home automation network may include light bulbs, locks, wireless cameras, video-enabled doorbells, security systems, and even pet feeding duties. Most users setup smart home hubs with thousands of custom commands suiting their exact needs. Needless to say, a …

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