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The third-generation Amazon Echo Show 10 isn’t just Amazon’s best smart display, it’s the most innovative, the most sophisticated, and the best-sounding smart home hub ever. The brushless motor that almost silently spins its 10.1-inch HD display around a 350-degree arc is the feature that will grab your attention when you take it out of the box, but you’ll quickly discover many more things to get jazzed over when you set about exploiting its capabilities to the fullest.
Using feedback from its onboard 13-megapixel camera as well as from its far-field microphones, the Echo Show 10 rotates its display around its base so that it’s always facing you. This is a fantastic feature whether you’re following a recipe, engaging in a video call, or watching a movie on Netflix. And Amazon gives you full control over how motion occurs: You can disable it entirely, enable it only for some activities such as when making video calls, watching a video, or following a recipe or
Dutifully, your Echo Bot (that’s my name for it) rolls up, peering at you with a camera embedded on a “retractable pole,” as it’s been described in a recent Business Insider story reported on by SlashGear that claims more than 800 Amazon employees are working on the project as a “top priority.”
“Alexa, find my AirPods,” you say, and the Echo Bot dutifully spins around and begins scouring your living room for the lost earbuds.
Soon enough, the Bot returns. “I found your AirPods, Ben,” Alexa says, displaying a snapshot of the missing accessories nestled on your couch (of course). “Also, would you like to join your 12 o’clock Zoom meeting”?
Amazon-owned Ring is now rolling out a new Geofence feature to help automate at least some of the features found in its app. As its branding implies, the
Kids Off The Block is lauded for giving to youth and families in need food, clothing or refuge from the streets in the founder’s own home. On Thursday, founder Diane Latiker launches a partnership with home security firm Ring to donate 1,000 video doorbells to residents in Roseland, Riverdale and Auburn-Gresham.
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Kids Off The Block (KOB), a Roseland nonprofit, has long been lauded for its giving to youth and families in need food, clothing or refuge from the streets, in the founder’s own home.
Its giving takes a unique turn this week, as founder Diane Latiker partners with home security firm Ring to donate 1,000 video doorbells to residents in three South Side areas plagued by high crime: Roseland, Riverdale and Auburn-Gresham.
Amazon-owned Ring has suffered another privacy miscue, after a flaw in its Neighbors app exposed the exact locations and home addresses of some of its users.