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Amazon announces 11 new and refreshed Echo-branded gadgets
Echo Dot, Echo Input, Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Plus, Amazon Smart Plug, Echo Auto, Fire TV Recast, AmazonBasics Microwave, Echo Wall Clock, and Echo Show.
Echo Dot, Echo Input, Echo Sub, Echo Link, Echo Plus, Amazon Smart Plug, Echo Auto, Fire TV Recast, AmazonBasics Microwave, Echo Wall Clock, and Echo Show.
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original Playstation's release, Sony has just announced the Playstation Classic, a $100 mini version of the original Playstation console that comes preloaded with twenty games.
In a lengthy email posted to the LKML on Sunday night, Torvalds expressed a change of heart. Taken to task over attacks that he recognizes were "unprofessional and uncalled for," he says he now recognizes that his behavior was "not OK" and he is "truly sorry."
Google says that it "learned a lot about how to make email better" from Inbox, and now with the "popular Inbox experiences" ported over to Gmail, the company wants to "focus solely on Gmail."
The initial emphasis on last week’s Supreme Court of Canada’s copyright notice decision has focused on how Internet providers can pass along the specific costs associated with subscriber disclosures beyond those required for the notice-and-notice system to rights holders. The ruling rightly restores the notice system back to its intended approach, but it is not the only takeaway with implications for the recent flurry of file sharing lawsuits.
Google rolled out Chrome 69 this week including an updated UI. One immediately noticeable change is that the address bar will now hide the "www" prefix of URLs by default, though clicking into the address bar will still show the full URL with www included.
If you're not a fan of this change, www can be restored by going to chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains in your address bar and setting Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains to disabled.