A roundup of all the major announcements from Amazon on Thursday, from a new microwave to a subwoofer to new Alexa skills and developer tools
and that may say more about us than about them Geek News Central : Amazon Made it Rain Alexa Corbin Davenport / Android Police : Lenovo is working on more tablets with Alexa integration Kieren McCarth...
Amazon unveils Echo Auto, a $49.99 dash mounted in-car accessory that puts Alexa in any car with an aux jack and gives directions using Waze
Access Alexa Everywhere in Your Home and Your Car CNBC : Amazon introduces a ton of new Alexa-enabled products, including a microwave and car gadget Joan E. Solsman / CNET : Amazon Music will let you ...
Sources: Snap badly overestimated demand for Spectacles, has hundreds of thousands of unsold units in warehouses, either fully assembled or in parts
Snap badly overestimated demand for its Spectacles and now has hundreds of thousands of unsold units sitting in warehouses … Tweets: @mims , @mattmcgee , @adamsinger , @kantrowitz , @caro , @daniel_ru...
Google Lens, an in-photo search feature driven by computer vision, is coming to Google Photos and Google Assistant
Google Lens is a super-powered version … Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Google has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS Mike Murphy / Quartz : Everything Google announced at its 2017 I/O ...
Google launches Trips, a free Android and iOS app that serves as trip planner and travel guide, with custom itineraries as well as flight, hotel info, more
Apps can often prove unnecessary … Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority : Google Trips is a new smart travel app that will help plan your next vacation App Store : Google Trips — iTunes — Open iTu...
Sources: iPhone event scheduled for Sept. 7; thinner MacBook Pros with touchscreen strip for function keys, USB Type-C, Touch ID, more, likely to debut later
what we know iTech Post : Apple Completely Redesigns 2016 Macbook Pro; Rumors Confirmed Raymond Ronamai / International Business Times : All eyes are on Apple's upcoming flagship smartphone iPhone 7 …...
Amazon to retire Product Ads Oct. 31, will provide new text ads as alternative
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Yahoo updates mobile web search with richer results to to help users “take action right away”
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Google announces Android Pay, will allow users to pay in over 1000 apps and at 700K US stores
and not much else USA Today : Google I/O is latest round in escalating high-tech arms race Alex Wood / The Memo : Google wants to dominate every part of our lives Andrew Martonik / Android Central : G...