Chris Monroe / CNET 2019 was a great year for Alexa. Amazon launched half a dozen large Echo speakers and shows, considerably completing its list of voice products. Amazon’s voice assistant also continued to mature, adding new creative skills like Alexa Guard and a Food Network Kitchen app. And yet, …
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(Bloomberg) – It wasn’t supposed to be that way for Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s chief competition officer who made a name for herself as Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. Her request to Apple Inc. to return a record € 13 billion ($ 14.9 billion) in state aid from Ireland in …
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Attorney General William Barr warned Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party has launched an “economic blitzkrieg” to topple the United States from its position as the world superpower, presenting the threat as the most important issue of this century and calling on the free world than uniting in a “whole …
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta to prevent the city from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and said in court that the city leadership he was illegally circumventing state executive orders with his own edicts. Kemp and …
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany shot Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday, calling the Westerner “abandoned” when it comes to dealing with crime. “The abandoned Chicago mayor should step up and ask for help because she is doing a very poor job of securing her streets,” said McEnany. Lightfoot …
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