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Amazon’s Echo Show 5 and Show 8 are up to 50 percent off right now

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Amazon’s Echo Show 5 and Show 8 are up to 50 percent off right now The Echo Show 8 can be a smart home controller by day and a digital clock and photo frame by night. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeIf you have a New Year’s resolution to enhance your smart home, buying a smart display isn’t a bad way to kick things off. The Echo Show 5 is one of the most cost-effective ways to add a visual interfa…

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The Amazon Echo graveyard

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The Amazon Echo graveyard Image: Mojo Wang for The VergeThe Echo ecosystem has seen its fair share of failures while trying to popularize Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant. Continue reading…

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LIV stars echo Rory: ‘People are losing interest’

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LIV stars echo Rory: ‘People are losing interest’ LIV Golf stars Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau agree that “too many people are losing interest” and “there’s got to be a way to come together.”

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How to set up an Echo Show to show you the least amount of crap

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How to set up an Echo Show to show you the least amount of crap Amazon’s Echo Show is a much better smart display without all the Amazon stuff. | The VergeAmazon’s Echo Show smart displays are genuinely great devices. For between $90 and $250 (often much cheaper with Amazon’s perma-sales), you get a smart speaker with a touchscreen that can play music, show you photos, fire up a video call with friends and f…

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The new Echo Show 8 is smarter, speedier, and knows when you get close

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The new Echo Show 8 is smarter, speedier, and knows when you get close The third-gen Echo Show 8 has a new look and some excellent changes under the hood. | Photo by Alex Cranz / The VergeAnd Echo Show 8 makes three! Amazon now has three smart home hubs, with the Echo Show 8 (third-gen) joining the newly announced Echo Hub and existing fourth-gen Echo smart speaker in sporting both Thread and Zigbee connectivity. T…

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How to preorder all of the new Amazon devices, including the Echo Hub

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How to preorder all of the new Amazon devices, including the Echo Hub Among many iterative updates, some of Amazon’s new devices include the Echo Hub and Fire TV Soundbar. | Image: AmazonDuring Amazon’s fall hardware event, the company announced a batch of new smart home devices across its Echo, Fire, Eero, and Blink lines. While some of these Amazon product announcements have led to a deluge of Alexa-infused smar…

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Echo Hub hands-on: It’s all about the widgets

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Echo Hub hands-on: It’s all about the widgets The $180 Echo Hub is designed to be wall-mounted but can be used as a tabletop device with a separate mount. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeAmazon was keeping close guard over its new Echo Hub smart controller in the demo room at today’s big hardware event. But I managed to get a few seconds of hands-on with a working tabletop un…

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Amazon’s new Echo Frames hands-on: lighter, louder, still all Alexa

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Amazon’s new Echo Frames hands-on: lighter, louder, still all Alexa They look mostly like glasses, right? That’s the idea. | Photo by David Pierce / The VergeAs soon as I put on Amazon’s new Echo Frames, I did the only thing you should do in that situation: I hit the button on the glasses’ left stem to turn the volume all the way up, and I said, “Alexa, play Taylor Swift.” A couple of seconds later, “Lavender Ha…

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