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Amazon announces Ring security drone, new Echo devices, a gaming service, and a whole lot more
September 25, 2020
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Nilay, Dieter, and Dan discuss all the important announcements from Amazon's fall hardware event this week, from a security drone for your home to a new cloud gaming service.
Stories discussed this week:
- CDC removes guidance about airborne spread of the coronavirus
- Averting a COVID-19 vaccination crisis will take careful communication
- Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house
- Ring announces new line of security cameras for cars
- Amazon will launch a new location-tracking mesh network system later this year
- Amazon’s fall hardware event: the 13 biggest announcements
- Amazon redesigns the Echo with a new spherical design and a custom machine learning processor
- Amazon’s new Echo show 10 moves to look at you
- Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays will soon stream Netflix video
- Amazon’s AZ1 Neural Edge processor will make Alexa voice commands even faster
- Alexa’s latest upgrades help it listen to multiple people and ask clarifying questions
- Amazon unveils new Guard Plus subscription for $4.99 per month
- Amazon announces new cloud gaming service called Luna
- Amazon’s Luna game streaming service is powered by Windows and Nvidia GPUs
- Amazon announces $29.99 Fire TV Stick Lite and upgraded Fire TV Stick
- The latest Eero mesh Wi-Fi routers support Wi-Fi 6
- iPad 2020 review
- iOS 14 and iPadOS review: iPhone revolution, iPad evolution
- iOS 14 basics: how to add widgets to your iPhone’s home screen
- Fitbit Sense review: enough bugs to raise your heart rate
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