Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

It's the last day of Amazon's week-long Big Spring Sale , and while the event has mostly focused on things like apparel and outdoor goods, it still does include a few noteworthy deals on electronics. As a reminder, you dont need to be an Amazon Prime subscriber to see most of the price drops. Also at Anker.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

The Amazon Echo Dot with clock (4th gen) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Alexa’s pleasant, feminine voice has filled the homes of millions over the past few years, but now Amazon has finally released a masculine counterpart for it. But late or not, it’s nice that Amazon is finally giving some choice for Alexa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Time and resources permitting, you can then expand to also using tools like TwitPic and Facebook Photos. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“By the way, I’m much more than just a voice-activated timer.” | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. If you regularly use an Alexa device, you’ve probably been upsold by Amazon’s assistant at some point. Bloomberg ’s report is based on internal Amazon docs, and features some interesting statistics about Alexa usage.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Project Connected Home over IP — the ambitious attempt to bring together Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance with a unified, open-source smart home platform — has just posted its latest update on the project.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Amazon is discontinuing its Echo Look camera, a standalone device that gave owners fashion advice using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Between now and July 24th, 2021, Look users can back up their images and videos by making a free Amazon Photos account.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon has introduced a new novelty voice for Alexa this festive season: Santa Claus. Nick to sing songs, crack jokes, tell stories, or just respond to typical Alexa commands like setting timers or playing music in his more festive voice. Asking “Hey Santa, am I naughty or nice?”

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

Amazon toyed with yet another way of ingratiating itself into the lives of you and your family through an Alexa-enabled wearable for kids, Bloomberg reports. The $99 wearable, codenamed “Seeker,” would reportedly feature GPS, voice activation (presumably for some kind of Alexa features), and be targeted for children ages four to 12.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The Pixel 5 is $50 off at Amazon | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Amazon is hosting a wide variety of tech deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If your search for gifts spans wider than what Amazon has in stock, check out our other coverage of the best Black Friday deals happening elsewhere.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Photo: Amazon. Amazon is launching a new group video or audio calling feature for Echo devices today, just in time for the holidays. Amazon is launching its group calling feature today in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the US, and the UK.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon has updated the Alexa app on iOS so that you can access the voice assistant right from your home screen via a new widget. Amazon’s given Alexa the ability to assign reminders to specific members of your household if they have a Voice Profile set up on the same Amazon Alexa account.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy are the latest celebrities to lend their voices to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, the company has announced. The two voices can provide weather reports, jokes, and personal stories when asked using the wake words “Hey Melissa” or “Hey Shaq.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Last September, Amazon announced a voice assistant alliance ahead of its yearly fall event with the goal to ensure smart devices are compatible with multiple digital assistants concurrently. Garmin’s GPS devices include Amazon Alexa.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Photo: New America / Flickr. Wu is a prominent voice online, as one of the most well-known advocates for a free and open internet. Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Both Amazon and Staples are offering the best price yet on Apple’s AirPods Pro wireless earbuds. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Lenovo’s tiny Smart Clock that has a USB-A charging port on its rear and Google Assistant voice support built in is $40 at Best Buy.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge. If you’re hunting for a set of truly wireless earbuds that offer great sound quality, active noise cancellation, IPX7 water resistance, a comfy fit, and other handy features, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro are at an especially good price today on Amazon.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Sony’s popular noise-canceling true wireless earbuds, the WF-1000XM3, are on sale for $178 today on Amazon. In addition to the WF-1000XM3 sale, Amazon also has Bose’s 700 noise canceling Bluetooth headphones for as low as $300 , if you buy the white color variant. That’s $51.99 retail price.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Photo: Amazon. Amazon is developing a thin Echo device for users to mount on their walls and use as a “smart home command center,” according to a report in Bloomberg. Naturally, it’s also said to include Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This Echo Show on the wall is the fairest of them all, but it’s not that smart The original idea for Amazon’s Echo Show was a large, screen-based device that would offer up relevant, glanceable information for the modern family, replacing outdated devices like bulletin boards, paper calendars, and sticky notes on the fridge.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It’s a little glimpse into a future Alexa robot that could become much more than a voice powered remote control. Amazon says the Show 10’s ability to move makes it easier to follow a recipe with it. The prior 10-inch Echo Show didn’t have a physical shutter, though Amazon did add it to the smaller Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and dozens of other firms have agreed to try to make setting up smart homes easier with Matter , a cross-platform open-source standard coming later this year. But while Amazon’s Eero routers were early to adopt Thread, Amazon’s Echo smart speakers were not.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Amazon Echo Show 10 | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon has affirmed its support for the smart home connectivity standard Matter, announcing in a blog post today that it will support Matter over Thread in its Echo devices and Eero Wi-Fi routers. Eero had previously confirmed its support of the standard.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon has unveiled a heap of Black Friday deals to give you an early start on your holiday shopping. While we expect many more deals across all categories of tech for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, these ones are focused on Amazon-made devices. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

So long as you’re willing to spend at least $50, you can buy something that’ll deliver 4K resolution and HDR color from apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. It also comes with a voice remote, whereas the Premiere only includes Roku’s basic remote without voice search. (If

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2021

Photo by An Rong Xu for the Washington Post. President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan, a legal scholar and leading voice in the growing tech antitrust movement, to serve as a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. If you’ve been holding out for Apple’s true wireless earbuds to drop in price, both the second-gen AirPods and the AirPods Pro have received a sizable discount at Amazon and Walmart. but are on sale right now at Amazon and Walmart for $99.99, matching their best price to date. Read our review.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool / Getty Images. million documents from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google ahead of their final hearing featuring the chief executives of each of the companies. Amazon officially bought Ring in February 2018. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Amazon’s Astro home robot | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. Amazon’s long-awaited home robot is here In the fall of 1962, TV-watching audiences were invited to meet the Jetsons, a space-dwelling, flying-car-driving family from the future and their dog, Astro. The Astro is an attempt to combine a number of Amazon’s strengths.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge. Hey Google, how do you compete with Tesla?”

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Netflix or Amazon may suggest what to watch or buy next based on viewing history, but a taste atlas goes much deeper. Physical books or DVDs: snap a photo of your bookshelf. Use your voice: If talking jogs your memory, use conversation mode in ChatGPT , Claude , Googles Gemini , or Microsofts CoPilot. AI can read the titles.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Sonos developed a system called “Concurrency” that could make multiple voice assistants interoperable on its smart speakers but had to put its plans on hold because of Google, a new Washington Post report explains. Sonos wants voice assistants to work together.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. The Sonos Move smart speaker is $100 off at retailers like Best Buy , B&H Photo and Amazon today only, bringing the cost from $400 to a more reasonable $300. It supports Alexa and Google Assistant voice assistants.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge. The system also won’t support Bluetooth microphones, which isn’t necessarily surprising given that Nintendo’s own voice chat system relies on an app running on your phone. Still, it’s a bummer for people who play games with their own built-in voice chat abilities.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon Echo Show 8 | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. You can start with a simple smart speaker from Google, Amazon, or Apple, and then add some smart bulbs or a security camera. Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. The new Eero 6 dual-band mesh Wi-Fi router is $103 (usually $130) at Amazon and Best Buy.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Apple’s AirPods Pro, pictured above, are the star of Black Friday — and the best deal we’ve seen yet is happening right now at Walmart and Amazon. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. 1More’s ColorBuds are down to $80 from $100 at the company’s site and Amazon for Black Friday.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

You can now buy an AirTag Loop for $24 from Amazon. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Right now at Amazon, you can buy the handy loop made specifically to carry Apple’s ultrawideband-capable Bluetooth tracker at an all-time low price of around $24 instead of $29. We’ll keep you updated on The Verge ’s Guide to Black Friday.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Photo by PATRICK T. For months during the union drive, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, felt like they were being watched. So when Amazon had a new USPS mailbox installed — ostensibly to increase voter turnout — many felt they couldn’t trust it. Amazon is trying to paint RWDSU as living in fantasy land.

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