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If asking digital assistants to play music, answer questions, read stories, and tell jokes,tu on lights, lock doors is your thing, then Amazon Echo(3rd Gen) is definitely a great product and in many...

Amazon’s Echo Look companion app –is getting updates from Amazon to improve voice support and more.With the Echo Look’s new update users can organise their clothing with the Collections tool. You can tag them according to options like colour, or even occasion. Whether users would want to put in the time to do this, of course, is another matter.Amazon seems to have taken this into consideration, adding a feature that automatically curates your catalogued clothes into themed Collections like weather, so you don’t have to.The firm is also adding in support for Vogue and GQ content. You’ll be able to see articles from Vogue and GQ in the app’s home screenfor those times you’re lost on what outfi...

Smart speakers are very often shared devices, which limits the services they can provide without mixing up everyone’s data and appointments.The solution, for these mostly blind devices, has been voice recognition, first seen on the Google Home, and today available on Amazon’s Echo range of smart speakers.Via the Amazon Alexa app housemates can now set up voice recognition using the Echo, Echo Dot,...

Up till now Amazon’s Echo voice assistants were the perfect servant – they did not speak until they were spoken to first.This is about to change, as Amazon is letting some developers test out the ability to send sound and light-based notifications to your Amazon Echo.Amazon has just releasedAmazon Alexa Notifications to a select group of developers. Aounced as part of theAlexa Voice Service (A...

Up till now Amazon’s Echo voice assistants were the perfect servant – they did not speak until they were spoken to first.This is about to change, as Amazon is letting some developers test out the ability to send sound and light-based notifications to your Amazon Echo.Amazon has just releasedAmazon Alexa Notifications to a select group of developers. Aounced as part of theAlexa Voice Service (A...

Amazon has a massive hardware event yesterday where they aounced a slew of products seemingly covering every niche of the smart speaker world.That does make it somewhat difficult to remember that a Microsoft-powered smart speaker has been aounced aounced as far back as December 2016, but the arrival of new glamour shots of the device, likely from the Windows Store, suggests the device will i...

Amazon has just held a hardware event today where they unveiled a new series of Echo products.Principal amongst them is a new Amazon Echo, which is shorter, squatter and covered in fabric, which should help it blend better into your decor.The device features a dedicated bass tweeter and support for multi-room audio, and will only cost $99, or $150 for 3.Amazon also showed off a new Echo Plus, whic...

While Microsoft and Apple are busy building premium smart speakers powered by Cortana and Siri, companies like Anker are introducing affordable smart speakers. The company is today introducing the new Eufy Genie, a $35 smart speaker powered by Amazon Alexa. The Eufy Genie is slightly bigger than Am...

If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, it’s time to ship for Amazon’s Prime Day. Amazon promised more deals than Black Friday for Prime Day, but there aren’t a lot of tech deals available at the moment. We were able to find a couple of good deals on Amazon UK, which you can find below: You can also...

Amazonis kicking off its third aual Prime Day begiing at6pm PT/9pm ETtoday,Monday, July 10. Amazon is now offering deals on thousands of electronic products. For example, you can grab the Microsoft Surface 3 tablet with 128GB SSD and 4GB RAM for just $369 using the below link. Amazon is a...

We have been reporting about Microsoft’s Home Hub plans for a while now. Initially, Home Hub was rumored to be a Cortana-powered speaker to take on the Amazon Echo. But Microsoft has bigger plans with Home Hub — as it was revealed recently, Microsoft...

Echo is a universal appto view animated gifs/mp4 on your windows 10 device. With Echoyou can view trending gifs, search by keyword or search using popular keywords. Echo has been updated (v 1.3.6.0) to now share the actual gif file as well as theriffsy link instead of sharing the link only prior. Echo has the option to save gifs in gif or mp4 format to your device for later viewing or sharing. You can also share directly from the app to other apps such as twitter, mail and other apps that support sharing. In addition you can copy the url of the gif to share that instead. You simply tap on a gif to view it animate and double tap to view it large. You can then tap on save, copy url and share i...