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Best Google Assistant and Alexa powered board games 2020

(Pocket-lint) – There are multiple games you can play through Google Home speakers or Google Assistant-powered speakers, as well as Amazon Echo or Alexa-powered speakers – and now’s the perfect time to explore them, given how much time we’re all spending at home. Say “Play a Game” to Google Assistant and you’ll get several options… Read more

Best indoor security cameras 2021: See inside your home anytime

(Pocket-lint) – One of the many benefits to setting up a smart home can be a serious bump in your security – whether you want sensors to let you know when people are around, or to tell you if you’ve left a window open or any other number of things. A key part of that can be… Read more

Ring’s Mailbox Sensor is one of the nerdier smart home gadgets I’ve tested

One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In it, the main protagonist, Wayne Szalinski, is a nerdy scientist-slash-home-gadget-inventor who develops a shrink ray in his attic that accidentally shrinks his kids and two neighbor kids down to the size of gnats. But it was Wayne’s other… Read more

How to Build an Alexa Smart Screen with Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, we’ll install Alexa Smart Screen SDK on a Raspberry Pi 4 to essentially “make” our own version of the Echo Show. We’ll nickname this project, “PiShow.” This project is possible with the Amazon Alexa Smart Screen SDK, in addition to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) SDK discussed in our previous article, How… Read more

Amazon launches group video and audio calling for Echo devices

Amazon is launching a new group video or audio calling feature for Echo devices today, just in time for the holidays. Originally announced back in September, group calling will allow up to seven participants to join an audio or video call on supported Echo devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Echo owners… Read more

Best Alexa speakers 2020: Top Amazon Echo alternatives

(Pocket-lint) – Amazon’s Alexa is great, a voice assistant that can control all manner of smart home products, answer questions you may have and play the music you request. The Amazon Echo devices aren’t the only speakers that offer the capable Alexa assistant though – there are numerous third party options that have embraced Alexa… Read more

TechStage | Smart home switches and buttons: Cleverly at the push of a button

Beginning Hue Switch Logi Pop Switch Friend of Hue Conclusion Comments by Matthias // 16. 12. 2020 17: 53 Clock If you want to control light, music, heating and more in your smart home, you usually have to pull out your smartphone or use voice assistants. But a lot is also possible with smart switches…. Read more

Nest vs Ring vs Arlo vs Netatmo: Which is the best video doorbell?

(Pocket-lint) – There are several options available if you’re in the market for a video doorbell, with Nest, Arlo and Netatmo all offering their own take on the smart doorbell and Ring providing five models alone. The various options can be confusing, with some requiring hardwiring, while others can simply be stuck onto the front… Read more

Amazon will make custom-fitted $25 T-shirts after photographing your body

Amazon influencers promote Made for You. Amazon just launched its new Made for You custom clothing service in the US that requires users to upload their measurements and two photos to create a “virtual body double.” The first product is a $25 Made for You T-shirt available in a variety of colors, fabrics, necklines, and… Read more

A year without Marvel movies left a pop culture void

In early April, I watched a clip of people crying, hollering, and clapping during a scene in Avengers: Endgame. It was the first time I remember missing physically sitting in a movie theater. I thought by May, when Black Widow was scheduled to be released, life would return to normal. I’d be back in a… Read more

Amazon adds Live Translation to Alexa’s toolbox of skills

Alexa is gaining the ability to do live translations between English and Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese with a new update Amazon announced today. The update joins Alexa’s expanded multilingual skills that were added in November to make the assistant a more capable non-English speaker and translator on devices in the US…. Read more

Zoom calls are beginning to arrive on the Google Nest Hub Max

Google is starting to roll out Zoom support for the Nest Hub Max smart display as an early preview for users in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, the company announced today. People who are using a Google or Nest Wi-Fi system may see some improvements to video calls, Google also announced. It’s updating the… Read more

BioWare is working on a next Mass Effect

The Mass Effect series from BioWare is one of the most popular action role-playing games with a science fiction scenario. This is especially true for the so-called Reaper trilogy with Commander Shepard. BioWare is now revealing via YouTube that there will be another series part. After the original Reaper trilogy, BioWare had dared a fresh… Read more

Samsung Display teases tri-folding screen and rollable devices

Samsung may have indirectly teased two eventual devices. On Samsung Display’s blog, the company has released two sketches of new devices that could plausibly arrive as a real Samsung device in the coming years. In the first illustration, a device with a tri-folding display reimagines the Galaxy Fold. This new design would eliminate the Fold’s… Read more

Amazon Sidewalk: Neighborhood Network Confusion

As announced 2019 Amazon wants to start its free sidewalk network “later this year”. Sidewalk is supposed to bring remote Amazon devices to the Internet via “installed echo gateways” even if the WLAN connection fails or is insufficient. The group also announced this to users in Germany, which caused some irritation among the recipients. Above… Read more