Amazon Alexa on your FACE?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,351 words · ~6 min read
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it's time for the technician oh
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cruel world who will be detected
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so it seems amazon is not content with only controlling your home media
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consumption and shopping habits as it now wants to own the streets too at the
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amazon product event this week the company unveiled a whole slew of new
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devices including the echo loop and echo frames so now you can be a know it all
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24 7 with blinging rings and shades dawg
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unlike other smart rings the echoloop isn't a slimmed down fitness tracker but
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instead it's basically a miniaturized echo that can perform many of the major
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functions as your stay-at-home smart waifu but makes you look like a cool spy
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while you set completely mundane reminders and alarms the small titanium
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frame houses two microphones a teensy-weensy speaker a single button
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for actions and a haptic driver for notifications and amazon claims that the
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battery will last around a single day for typical use the frames are even more
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simple it's an audio only echo experience with no cameras or ar screens
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so not very exciting but also not very creepy
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that's good all jokes aside i can see these being
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genuinely useful when accessing your phone would be difficult such as having
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to make a super quick phone call when your your phone is like buried in your
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desk clutter your pig right yeah pig i'm a clean person provided you
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only ever need to call a single contact as that's all that the loop ring allows
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you to assign it to it so yeah i'm getting some real gen 1 vibes
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now NVIDIA is looking to steal the spotlight for lower end gpus once again
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as information has risen from the tech depths
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about the new gtx 1660 super and confirmation
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will come soon enough as it's rumored to launch in october a report from video
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cards claims that there are at least three different 1660 super variants in
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the works from the dual evo phoenix and tough 3 series
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sounds like a super tough choice to me
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the new super card will apparently have the same GPU as the existing 1660 but
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will have faster vram six gigabytes of gddr6 running at 14 gigabits per second
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up from the current six gigabytes of gdr5 at eight gigabits a second this
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bump will actually make the upcoming super's memory faster than the current
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1660 ti the gtx 1660 super is expected
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to retail at under 300 but NVIDIA is also expected to launch a gtx 1650 ti in
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the near future meaning that there will be at least five different 16 series
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cards around the same price
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16 70 16 85 16 what oh NVIDIA they know
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how to confuse their customers logitech is wading into the live streaming market
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as yesterday it announced its plan to acquire streamlabs the company behind
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obs which is used by over 15 million streamers including us
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we were cool the purchase price is suggested to be around 89 million
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dollars in cash wow with an additional 29 million
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dollars in stock if streamlabs continues the uh
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rolling that growth ball that's insane streamlabs claims that 70 of twitch
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streamers use streamlabs for their broadcast and with logitech already
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being renowned for its gaming peripherals and streaming hardware such as blue microphones this acquisition is
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sure to solidify their position with content creators and influencers they
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really got us here they got yep i got nothing on this one
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time for the quick bits data breach of the week
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doordash doordash just announced a data breach affecting approximately 4.9
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million real humans including consumers
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dashers and merchants doordash says that while data such as names emails delivery
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addresses phone numbers and the last four digits of linked payment cards
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could have been leaked full card numbers and ccv numbers were not accessed thank
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goodness the breach could affect you if you
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signed up for doordash on or before april 5th 2018. but if that doesn't
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include you doordash still recommends changing your password just in case you
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know make it more complicated this time it's like the equivalent of having a
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series of bolts and padlocks in your doors and those little chain ones i like
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those you can peep they'll keep you up i can see though speaking of data and
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security Android has just announced its latest version of the Android 10 go
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edition which is the company's os for entry-level devices this update brings
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with it improved efficiency and security and users should find apps launching 10
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faster than with the previous os and with google stating that around 80
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percent of low-powered smartphones use Android go that's a whole lot of zippier
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app switching although i guess it kind of depends on their definition of low
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powered smartphone what does that even mean it's 100 of
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our numbers apple has just taken its innovation game to a whole new level
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with their latest patent and it seems that they might finally be jumping on
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the RGB train baby RGB train has no brakes the patent
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application outlines the company's plans to turn the apple logo into a and i'm
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recording the pattern here directly adjustable decoration
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it's an led this feature will allow the logo to light up and change color
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depending on incoming notifications which to be fair would be a nice feature
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to add to their products if they hadn't already done this and then cut it out of
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their macbooks a few years ago innovation
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the world wasn't ready before no no now they're ready now i'm ready people do
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this like 10 years ago it's only invented when apple does it it seems
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that sony just can't make up its mind as to whether the upcoming kojima del toro
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brain bender death stranding will be an exclusive
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playstation title or not shortly after announcing the limited edition ps4 pro
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the latest update for the game was on the official death stranding product
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page which displayed the text only on playstation only for that text to be
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later thanos snapped into the void so playstation please please i'm begging
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you stop playing with my hopes and dreams i just want to know if i can
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enjoy these crazy baby flashlights and baby portable chargers at a high frame
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rate come on snapchat is looking to take the fight to netflix and disney as it
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announces eight new snap
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originals no one is asking for this while also renewing four existing
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programs all sure to grab the attention of his largest demographic millennials
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apparently because what do millennials love you guessed it portrait only videos ah it
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burns in birds seriously though give me a landscape
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option or else for that reason
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i'm out that's the show for today guys that's it i'm getting out of here see
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you on the rancho later tonight same time as a yeah
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i broke it my ARM