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Amazon's line of smart speakers and displays, including Echo Dot and Echo Show, built around the Alexa voice assistant.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay let slip Neo, a new design language, as the Alexa Tablet became the first Amazon hardware named for its assistant. The Alexa name now sits on a device while Alexa+ is still labelled a preview.
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Amazon has switched off Alexa voice control of the aux input on four Echo models released between 2018 and 2020. Owners keep a working port but lose a spoken shortcut.
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References to Faces, a Face Gallery and HomeAccessory_wall put a display-bearing HomePod in code Apple shipped itself. That resets the floor for anyone building home hubs.
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Amazon repriced Echo, Kindle, Fire TV and eero overnight and blamed memory costs. The models it left alone hold more memory than the ones it raised.
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A husband in Taiwan won damages from his wife and her lover using video from the couple's robot vacuum, and the same recording earned him five months in jail, with the app working normally throughout.
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The same live camera feed brought him about US$16,000 in damages and a five-month sentence for making the recording. The chain of custody for that exhibit begins with a party to the dispute.
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This season's Amazon discounts will be measured against list prices the company raised in the past week, blaming memory and storage costs in an account that its unchanged Kindle Scribe line complicates.
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Washington Post reporters found chatbot transcripts cited in 12 court cases in two years. The disclosure numbers behind those cases put employee prompts in a third-party evidence store your retention policy does not reach.
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A Friday email moved Amazon customers onto binding individual arbitration with a class-action waiver. It is a liability control shipped as a terms update, and it costs nothing to build.
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