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First look: Amazon Echo Auto brings Alexa on your next road trip

9/21/2018, 6:15:56 AM
Alexa, let's hit the road! ✔ Amazon has long been known for putting good things in small packages ✔ What you get, exactly, is a portable Echo that uses a Bluetooth connection to your phone and an eight-microphone array to take requests via Alexa and can spit out songs, directions, your to-do list, a book from Audible and more



Amazon's new Echo lineup targets Google, Apple and Sonos

9/21/2018, 1:16:56 AM
So many Echos. So many. ✔ Another useful feature that I didn't get to try out is local voice control, so you can control your Echo even if the internet is down ✔ The Auto will be available for $50 when it comes to market at a yet-to-be-determined date, but you can get it for $25 via invite right now



Intriguing collection of mainly Italian cars and bikes up for auction

9/21/2018, 6:16:36 AM
Curiosity, coupled with enthusiasm and wine, is chiefly to blame for the Andrew Bremner Collection of predominantly obscure cars and motorcycles, which is coming up for auction next week. ✔ These were joined by two Monet-Goyons from France and a 1950 New Hudson autocycle, produced after the company had been bought by BSA ✔ For tips and advice, visit our Advice section, or sign up to our newsletter here A-Z Car Finder More classic car stories at Telegraph Cars



Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi sign multi-year contract | Drive.com.au

9/21/2018, 1:29:40 AM
Google and automotive alliance sign multi-year contract.



Ferrari 812 Superfast 2018 review

9/21/2018, 1:29:42 AM
Superfast in name and Superfast in nature, for a price CarReview - drive.com.au



Renault reveals EZ-Pro robo vans | Drive.com.au

9/21/2018, 5:04:09 AM
Renault has revealed its vision for the future of autonomous delivery vans with the EZ-Pro concept of robotic delivery vans



Amazon's Alexa knows what you forgot and can guess what you're thinking

9/21/2018, 2:45:41 AM
AI voice assistant will soon give users with connected smart home devices reminders to lock doors and turn off lights ✔ Limp did not say how many Amazon Echo devices it had sold since introducing them in 2014, but he did say that Alexa now has tens of millions of users worldwide ✔ Alexa Hunches will be turned on by default, although anyone creeped out by a disembodied voice recommending that they lock all their doors will be able to turn the feature off with a simple voice command



Amazon’s Alexa is coming for your microwave, wall clock and more

9/21/2018, 1:59:32 AM
Amazon.com unveiled some 70 new devices and capabilities for its Alexa product line at its Seattle headquarters Thursday. Like a rebooted Sharper Image catalogue, Amazon is adding its talking artificial intelligence to a microwave, a wall clock, a wall plug, cars and more. ✔ Amazon’s efforts to simplify complex things with voice commands haven’t always panned out ✔ The Fire TV Cube, a TV streaming box it began selling earlier this year, promised to, in part, replace a complicated remote control with Alexa ✔ But in my tests, Alexa wasn’t totally up to the task ✔ Google is expected to unveil its new offerings at an event on Oct. 9



How Venom's Biggest Stunt Sequence Was Made

9/21/2018, 2:25:55 AM
"There’ll be a four-minute sequence, and we spend months doing it.” ✔ The VFX team then used visual effects to show Venom pulling Eddie back on to the bike, as has been shown in Venom's trailers ✔ I’m gonna take a break and go surfing for a while or something ✔ It’s like, there’ll be a four-minute sequence, and we spend months doing it



Do Google and Alexa ignore small languages?

9/21/2018, 6:37:45 AM
Kazakhstan is battling to be included in translation tech ✔ Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced last year that Kazakh would switch to the Roman alphabet ✔ What's different is the way words are being converted into numbers, explains Vlad ✔ TechRadar's Next Up series is brought to you in association with Honor



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