September 25, 2019 Social VR world ‘Facebook Horizon’ comes to Oculus in 2020 Facebook, at its core, is a social networking company, so it's perhaps not too much of a surprise it has a major social project…
September 25, 2019 Amazon’s new Echo has better sound at the same price Amazon's new $99 mainline Echo is basically an Echo Plus in new clothes. Under the hood is the same core audio features — neodymium…
September 25, 2019 Amazon announces high-end $199 Echo Studio speaker Amazon announced its first high-end smart speaker at its annual hardware event today, called the Echo Studio. The Studio was created with Amazon’s new…
September 25, 2019 Amazon’s new Echo Studio promises immersive audio for $200 Just as earlier reports suggested, Amazon revealed yet another updated version of its Echo smart speaker at a press conference in Seattle today. The…
September 25, 2019 Alexa can mimic celebrities, starting with Samuel L. Jackson During its hardware extravaganza, Amazon announced that its neural text to speech technology (Neural TTS) in Alexa has advanced enough that it can mimic…
September 25, 2019 Amazon adds Auto Delete for Alexa following privacy concerns As part of its hardware event, Amazon just unveiled a new Auto Delete feature for Alexa that will automatically erase video recordings after three…
September 25, 2019 Amazon’s Alexa is getting a new, more natural sounding voice and a Samuel L. Jackson voice option Amazon just announced some big changes coming to Alexa this year: a new, more natural sounding voice, support for simultaneous, bi-lingual requests, and celebrity…
September 25, 2019 Babies in Prehistoric Europe Drank Animal Milk From Ceramic ‘Sippy Cups’ A chemical analysis of pottery feeding vessels from the Bronze and Iron Ages suggests prehistoric European babies and toddlers had diets supplemented with, and…
September 25, 2019 Megabots Throws in the Towel and Puts Battle Robots on Ebay Megabots, a startup that was dedicated to bringing behemoth battle-robot entertainment to the masses, is selling off its assets before filing for bankruptcy. Read…
September 25, 2019 The best games for Nintendo Switch Nintendo's Switch is on a roll. The youngest of the games consoles is punching above its weight with a mix of core Nintendo games…