Find yourself wishing you could upgrade your old Echo Auto? You can! The Amazon Echo Auto 2nd Gen smart car accessory features a suite of new features. With a redesigned look, it blends in with your car’s interior. Not only that, but it truly looks like a member of the Echo family. Integrating into your…
Think your home or office is missing something? It’s the Amazon Astro 2nd Gen smart robot. Designed to help you in more ways than one, it can actually keep a watchful eye on your pet while you’re at the office. Not only that, but you can also use it to help protect your workspace when…
Finding your Alexa remote will not be difficult anymore; thanks to the remote finder feature in the Amazon Alexa Voice Remote Pro. Additionally, the device comes with a motion-activated backlight that illuminates buttons in dimly-lit rooms. The remote also comes with two customizable buttons to create your own shortcuts to favorite channels, apps, or any…
Add a device to your setup that truly improves your home’s security when you select from the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro security camera series. The collection includes 4 models: Battery, Plug-In, Wired, and Solar. All of them use integrated radar to provide super precise motion alerts. Additionally, they use the Bird’s Eye View feature to…
Amazon has released a new Fire TV Cube streaming player, the third-generation of its Fire TV and Echo Dot hybrid device. Here’s what’s new with the 3rd Gen model. The new Cube, which is available today (September 28) includes a brand new Alexa remote, more power and more connectivity options. Let’s see how the two…
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Hot Pod. You can blame Rosh Hashanah for my tardiness. We have a lot to get into today, but first, some shameless self-promotion! I made an episode of The Vergecast about how the rise of streaming has changed music creation and what…
The Verge Google’s impressive multisearch tool, which lets you search using both an image and some text, will be expanding to more than 70 global languages in the next few months, the company announced at its Search On event on Wednesday. Multisearch uses Google Lens to make it easier to search for things that might…
Buoys equipped with onboard computers could use AI to help save humpback whales in the US from ship collisions. | Photo by Tim Graham / Getty Images AI software monitoring sounds from within bright yellow buoys could reduce whale deaths by identifying whale species and pod locations. Scientists then verify the data and relay that…
Illustration: The Verge If you open up Google Maps right now, I’m guessing you’ll probably search for where you want to go using a traditional 2D map. But Google has some ideas to help you discover the world around you in a far more immersive way, and it showed off some of what it’s working…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Since the start of the pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration has signed off on 430 COVID-19 tests through its emergency use authorization powers — rules that let the agency push tests and drugs out the door more quickly during an emergency. Now, over two years later, the…