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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 — Microwave. Subwoofer. Smart plug. In-car device. — Those are just a handful of the new devices Amazon debuted on Thursday …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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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 … | Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook plans to unveil its “Portal” video chat device for home with Alexa support next week; it will come in two screen sizes for ~$400 and ~$300 — Facebook plans to finally unveil its Portal video chat device for the home next week, Cheddar has learned.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing a way for users to reshare posts from other accounts to their own feeds; obtained screenshots suggest the feature is early in development — Will it revive the feed — or break it? — After years of resistance, Instagram is now testing a way for you to reshare posts from other accounts to your own feed.
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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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The Next Web, Firstpost, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Social Media Today, BGR, Adweek, Digital Trends, Refinery29, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, and All Things How. Tweets: @wongmjane
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In letter to Congress, Google confirms it continues to allow third-party apps to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, though Google itself stopped doing so — Lawmakers had asked company to explain policy in wake of WSJ report — WASHINGTON—Google Inc. told lawmakers it continues … | 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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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya appears unconcerned about the string of exits from the firm and says it will no longer raise outside capital — - Chamath Palihapitiya told his employees he would be diverting much of the “carry” — the portion of investment returns traditionally given …
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The Information, Chamath Palihapitiya, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @alexisohanian, @ahhensel, @chamath, @mdudas, @jasonlk, @willoremus, @jessicalessin, @sallyshin, @karaswisher, and @pt
| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
PlayStation Now announces subscribers can download PS4 and remastered PS2 games, as the service becomes more like Xbox Game Pass — The biggest hindrance to Sony's PlayStation Now streaming service is lag. Because the game isn't stored locally, whatever device you're playing on has to send …
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PlayStation.Blog, GamesIndustry.biz, Gematsu, VG247, TechSpot, Kotaku, destructoid, GameSpot, Polygon, Gamasutra, IGN, CNET, and The Verge
| CNN: |
Google confirms the personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff have been targeted by foreign government hackers — Foreign hackers target Senators' Gmail accounts — (CNN)The personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff …
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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, Engadget, MacRumors, BetaNews, The Verge, VoIPWatch, Beyond Search, Softpedia News, Windows Central, Neowin, Business Insider, and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| 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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VentureBeat, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Business Insider, Telegraph, and Reuters. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Bing rolls out AMP support for searches on the mobile web two years after adding support for the protocol to its mobile apps — Two years after adding support for the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) protocol in its mobile apps, Bing is now rolling out AMP support for searches on the mobile web.
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Engadget, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Neowin, PhoneArena, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, Search Engine Journal, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @reckless
| Josh Ye / Abacus: |
Twitch website is currently not accessible in China and its app has disappeared from the App Store, indicating that Twitch may have been blocked in the country — Gaming service's site is inaccessible and its app is no longer on China's iOS App Store — Last month, Twitch downloads surged …
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