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How To Make The Echo Show Suck Less
About 18 months ago, I turned my apartment into a smart home. For the most part, it’s great: Instead of arguing with my wife about who is going to get up and turn off the hall light, we just ask Echo to do it. But there are a few wrinkles. For one, if you touch…
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Amazon Wants You to Throw Out Your BMW’s User Manual in Favor of AI
“We want you to be able to throw out your user manual,” was one of the first things Dean Miles, Amazon’s director of product for its smart vehicles, told me as we sat down to chat over Amazon’s big push to stick AI in cars at CES 2024. The idea was first billed to me…
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The Year Ahead in TV
After production delays caused by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, 2024’s television slate will likely see some shifting around—though shows like Netflix’s Stranger Things and One Piece may get fast-tracked to release the beginnings of their seasons by the end of the year. There’s lots of animation on the way for certain, so it will be…
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Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody. This was a bad…