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Amazon Just Launched a Way to Make Custom Alexa Skills (& It’s Super Easy to Use)

This morning, Amazon made Alexa Blueprints available. Alexa Blueprints is a website-based way of creating your own custom Alexa skills with custom questions and responses. From simple things like asking a specific question and having a pre-programmed answer repeated back to you, to templates (aka blueprints, get it?) that allow […]

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Samsung’s “The Wall” TV & Their New 8K Upscaling TV (Video)

Here we go with another quick and dirty CES video for you guys. Samsung announced a couple of TVs that were interesting. The first, called The Wall, because it is the size of the average wall in an American household apparently, is a massive 146″ flat TV. It’s so big,

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Samsung Notebook 7 Spin, Notebook 9, and Notebook 9 Pen (Video)

Samsung showed off three new laptops today at CES. The Notebook 7 Spin, the Notebook 9, and the Notebook 9 Pen. Here’s what they’re all about. The first is the Notebook 7 Spin. It’s a 2-in-1 format with a 360 degree FHD 13.3″ screen. It’s Active Pen enabled but the

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Razer Project Linda: Turn Your Razer Phone Into a Laptop (Video)

I’m here at CES and wanted to try and get some videos out for you guys of some of the stuff I’m being shown. This is a tech convention though, so please excuse the quick and dirty nature of these. First up, let’s talk about Razer. Razer, as is Razer fashion,

Did Google Just Circumvent Apple’s iOS 11 New Anti Ad-Tracking?

Apple has implemented yet another feature in iOS 11 to disrupt advertising. This time, they have added a feature that stops third-party cookies from being stored on your device for more than 24 hours. What this means as a user is that those ads that are following you around about

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Why the FaceID Fail on Stage Wasn’t a FaceID Fail at All

I’m pretty sure everyone watching gringed slightly when Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said the words, “Now, unlocking it is as easy as looking at it and swiping up,” followed by a pause and, “…you know, let’s try that again…” and still nothing. For all the talk

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LG V30 First Look: The Creator’s Phone?

With last year’s G5 being aimed a bit more at the mid-market and going with the concept of mods the V20 launched about 6 months later became the go to LG phone for the higher-end audience last year. LG might have returned to making the G6 a flagship device earlier

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Hands-On (Video)

The Galaxy Note 8 was announced today, the latest in the high-end Note lineup of phones from Samsung and Samsung was kind enough to give me a little time with the device before launch so here’s a quick hands-on video of the phone in all its glory. First up, it’s

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Google Announces Android Oreo During The Eclipse

During the Eclipse today, Google invited some people to the 14th Street Park in Chelsea to watch and mentioned “music, drinks and a surprise or two” in the invite. Turns out that surprise was a lot of Oreos. Which I was super excited about, of course, but turns out they

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iPhone 8 Model Hands-On & Feature Predictions

I don’t usually do rumors. But the iPhone 8 or X or whatever it’s going to be called has now just shown up in way too many places to be ignored. So I managed to get my hands on the dummy model of the leaked images etc. to see it

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Samsung Finally Announces the T5 SSD, Their Fastest External SSD To Date

If you’re someone who works with video and need to be mobile, as well, you’ve no doubt heard of Samsung’s T series of SSD external hard-drives. A big favorite among content creators, the Samsung T3 is probably one of the fastest portable SSDs you could get. Transferring footage from your