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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 — As Amazon noted at today's event, the company has already been working with a number of car companies bring Alexa to vehicles.
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Amazon announces an update to the $229.99 Echo Show, with a 10" display, Dolby speakers, an eight microphone array, built-in Skype, third party browsers, more — Today's Amazon event is full of surprises, but you could have predicted this one from a mile away.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces updates to the $49.99 Echo Dot and $149.99 Echo Plus speakers with updated designs and improved sound quality, shipping Oct. 11 — A new, fabric design and better sound comes to the other members of the Echo lineup — Amazon has just announced an update to its most popular Echo speaker …
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| Ashlee Clark Thompson / CNET: |
Amazon launches a $59.99 AmazonBasics-branded microwave that works with Alexa-enabled speakers, has built-in WiFi, and an Amazon Dash Replenishment — Amazon will begin to sell its own brand of Wi-Fi-connected microwaves that will respond to voice commands, the company announced Thursday at its headquarters in Seattle.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces APL, a design language for building Alexa skills for devices with screens, says APL-powered skills coming to Alexa device owners next month — Along with the launch of the all-new Echo Show, the Alexa-powered device with a screen, Amazon also introduced a new design language … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Adobe says it is acquiring the marketing automation company Marketo for $4.75B — A week ago rumors were flying that Adobe would be buying Marketo, and lo and behold it announced today that it was acquiring the marketing automation company for $4.75 billion.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test and limits users to expressing their interest in a maximum of 100 people per day — Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its Dating feature.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging — Geofenced sharing, Quiz stickers, Stories Highlight stickers, and a separate interface for adding hashtags to posts are amongst a slew …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Spotify says it will now allow indie artists to directly upload their music to the service; the upload feature is debuting in beta on an invite-only basis in US — The beta program is still invite-only — Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload … | Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
Reporter says Linus Torvalds' decision to temporarily step away from Linux maintenance came after he was asked a series of questions about his conduct — The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber is in early talks to buy London-based food-delivery company Deliveroo for several billion dollars; Deliveroo was last valued at more than $2B — - Deliveroo was valued at $2 billion in financing last year — Uber Technologies Inc. is in early talks to buy food-delivery company Deliveroo …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro launches Hero 7 Black with live-streaming, super slow motion, smooth stabilization, and 4K video at 60 fps for $399, going on sale September 27 — With new cheaper options at $199 and $299 — Just a few hours after a last-minute leak, GoPro has officially announced the new Hero 7 line of cameras …
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| John Falcone / CNET: |
Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, shipping Nov. 14 in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $229.99 and a 4-tuner 1TB model for $279.99 — That Amazon DVR that was rumored a few weeks back? It's real, and it's here. The Fire TV Recast is a DVR, but it doesn't have its own video outputs.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Google decides on Gmail's Smart Reply suggestions, which make up 10% of all Gmail responses, as the feature gets rolled out to all 1.4B accounts — Google's automated email replies, which are being rolled to its 1.4 billion accounts, have baffled users with some peculiar suggestions
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Skype is coming to Amazon Alexa devices later this year, letting Alexa users make outgoing voice and video calls, accept incoming calls, and more — Microsoft and Amazon are working together to bring Skype calling to Alexa-powered devices, which brings into question, again, where Microsoft is going with Cortana.
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Skype Blogs, Business Insider, Windows Central, and Neowin
| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Amazon updates the $179.99 Ring Stick Up camera and adds a wired version with an ethernet cable, available for preorder now and shipping Oct. 18 — Amazon is rolling out a bunch of new gadgets today, a few of which are focused on home security. Among those is a new Ring Stick Up Cam …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNET
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Meredith Perry has stepped down as CEO of uBeam, the controversial wireless charging startup she founded in 2011 — Meredith Perry has stepped down as CEO of uBeam, the controversial wireless charging startup she founded in 2011, Axios has learned.| Shannon Vavra / Axios: |
John Bolton says Trump signed off on a new national cyber strategy to guide how the administration handles cyberthreats, offensive and defensive cybersecurity — President Trump has signed off on a long-awaited national cyber strategy that aims to guide how the administration handles offensive …
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Facebook says that for future political campaigns, it will pull back from dedicated on-site support like the kind it provided to Trump's 2016 campaign — - Social network has been questioned about its help in 2016 — Company wants candidate organizations to use ad website
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