Amazon’s 5 New Smart Home Devices: Everything You Need to Know

The company is also introducing an interactive home map feature.

Amazon Drops a Digital Photo Frame With Real Wood Finish and Unlimited Photo Storage

The pricey Alexa Photo Frame drops just in time for holiday gifting.

Samsung Galaxy Buds On Are the Premium Clip-On Earbuds You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For

Samsung’s $229 clip-on open earbuds are primed to take on models from Bose, Sony and Shokz.

Amazon’s New Echo Lineup Goes in the Opposite Direction of Apple HomeView

While Apple’s first home screen is small, Amazon is going bigger and more TV-oriented than ever before — but that comes with high prices.

Why native PC ports of console games are suddenly everywhere

With dozens of titles unofficially ported to PC over the past few months, the big questions are: why is this now possible, and what changed?

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it’s been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals. There’s the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a site that’s supposed to be a park. […]

Amazon’s first digital picture frame lets you add voice notes to photos
Amazon’s first digital picture frame lets you add voice notes to photos

Amazon’s screen-equipped smart speakers have long been able to display your family’s photos, but its new Alexa Photo Frame is purpose-built for that task. It’s designed to compete with other digital picture frames from companies like Aura, and Amazon’s incorporates a smart speaker with access to Alexa Plus’ capabilities through voice commands. However, unlike the […]

How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network
How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network

Kroger’s $1.65 billion proposed acquisition of Giant Eagle might not only consolidate the grocery market, but also a vast surveillance network that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns. Beyond standard concerns that a merger could decrease competition and increase prices, the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), which advocates for competition policy reforms, says that […]

Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera
Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera

Amazon is giving its premium smart speaker a camera. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera, announced today as part of Amazon’s big blast of announcements, has a built-in camera for monitoring a room while you’re away, showing things to Alexa, and, soon, to use with video calls on Fire TV devices. It’s an iteration […]