According to Amazon, Alexa’s engagement has quadrupled in the past four years, and more people than ever are using voice assistant to cook, play music, and even control their smart home devices. With Amazon Echo smart displays and speakersAlexa can monitor visitors at your door with ring, control the speed …
Read More »Amazon invests $ 10 billion to compete against SpaceX in satellite broadband
Getty Images | Chinese Yuichiro Amazon received approval from the United States to launch 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit for its planned “Project Kuiper” broadband service. An order from the Federal Communications Commission granting Amazon’s request was issued Thursday. Amazon said in a blog post that it will invest …
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Photographic illustration of Slate. Photo by Photo illustration of Slate. Photo by Andrey Zhuravlev / iStock / Getty Images Plus. In the US, COVID-19 is spreading like a forest fire. At the same time, the research community is increasingly learning about how the coronavirus passes from one person to another. …
Read More »Ellen DeGeneres Called Brad Garrett Over Toxic Claims in the Workplace: ‘Common Knowledge’
Brad Garrett called Ellen DeGeneres for her apologies to the staff, noting that the stories of the allegedly toxic work environment on her daytime talk show were “common knowledge.” After numerous accusations by current and former employees of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” about a toxic work environment that prompted WarnerMedia …
Read More »Morning glories and mustard: America investigates unsolicited seed mystery
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The US Department of Agriculture has identified more than a dozen plant species ranging from morning glories to mustard in bags of unsolicited seeds that reach the mailboxes of thousands of Americans, mostly postmarked from China. Unsolicited seeds that arrived in the mail, reported by a U.S. …
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