(Image: FCC) It appears Samsung is working on a competitor to Amazon Alexa and Google Home, with its own take on a voice assistant speaker, according to a filing with the US Federal Communications Commission spotted by Ausdroid. Samsung isn’t commenting officially. However, the FCC leak has images of a small, white speaker allegedly called …
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Last week, Mila Kunis showed off her pregnancy curves while stepping out in Los Angeles with husband Ashton Kutcher. Kunis’ striped maxi dress accentuated her baby bump, which has grown since her red-carpet appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of her film “Bad Moms” last month. At the premiere, Kunis revealed how their 2-year-old daughter …
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Enlarge Image A top-down look at the so-called Samsung Scoop. Samsung If documents and photos submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission are to be believed, Samsung is prepping a new voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that looks an awful lot like a potential competitor for the Amazon Echo and the upcoming Google Home. First noticed by …
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Pay $10 per month and you can stream millions of songs from the internet. That’s how today’s top music streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Microsoft Groove Music, and Google Play Music work. Amazon is said to be planning to launch its own $10/month music service too. But Amazon may also have a second, cheaper plan. …
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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis installed an Amazon Alexa voice-command system before the birth of their second child. Credit: Noel Vasquez/GC Images Bringing up baby — in a souped-up house! Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are prepping for the arrival of their second child, and they’re giving their home a whole high-tech upgrade in anticipation. …
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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 …
It would be half the cost of Apple Music and Spotify Amazon is planning to launch a music streaming service specifically for its Echo connected speaker device, Recode reports. The service will reportedly cost $4 or $5 a month, about half the price of rivals like Apple Music and Spotify’s paid offerings. (Those services work …
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More curved, softer colors. TP-Link Rebranding for the smart home means new logos. TP-Link, maker of routers and networking equipment, announced a brand redesign today. Why? Because it wants to be thought of as a home lifestyle brand, according to a conversation CNET had with its president and chairman, Jeffrey Chao. The company has been …
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HypriotOS is available for the Raspberry Pi. Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi computer may only cost $35, but it’s also extremely versatile: suited to learning to code, building appliances, and even running Docker containers. By automating the creation and deployment of apps in containers — a lighter-weight form of virtualization — Docker is …
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If you own a pool or swim laps regularly at a resort (or just watched the green water fiasco at the Rio Olympics) you know it takes a lot of work to keep that water sparkly, blue, and clean. Now there are a couple of companies applying the concepts of the Internet of things, which …