A few months ago, Amazon announced its wall-mountable Echo Show 15 would get a software update to add Fire TV streaming capabilities with YouTube TV, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Netflix, and more, and now it’s here.
That upgrade alone won’t address all the issues Jennifer Pattison Tuohy noted in her review, but she’s giving it another try with the Fire TV remote to see how things have evolved.
The San Francisco government is apparently walking back its killer robot plans, Tim Cook and Joe Biden popped up in Arizona, and Call of Duty could come back to Nintendo. It’s that kind of day, but here are a few other stories you might have missed.
Now the Chrome omnibox uses @ shortcuts so you can quickly search tabs and history.
Apple’s electric car plans could have a starting price under $100k, and keep any “self-driving” features restricted to the highways.
If you want to pay a little less for Disney Plus, today might be your last chance.
Say goodbye to Gwent.
Today Apple’s CEO confirmed TSMC will make chips for Apple at its new Arizona plant.
The first plant is scheduled to begin production by 2024, with a second one lined up for 2026. Here’s our full report from the event.
From Reuters:
Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted on Tuesday of carrying out a more-than 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities... The Trump Organization - which operates hotels, golf courses, and other real estate around the world - faces fines over the conviction. The exact amount will be determined by the judge overseeing the trial in New York State court at a later date.
Despite recent bad news around crypto, some people still think it’s the next big thing.
Enter this $279 credit card-sized Ledger Stax crypto wallet, “a usable way for you to take control of cryptocurrency and digital collectibles.”
It has an E Ink screen that wraps around its spine and wireless Qi charging, but its most important attribute is name recognition — it’s designed by Tony Fadell, who led the team creating the iPod. That’s supposed to suggest that, like the iPod, this will also become popular. We’ll see!
Not to jinx things, but it appears we’ve gone five consecutive minutes without Sam Bankman-Fried popping up for another interview.
A few news items you may have missed:
Emma Roth and Mitchell Clark looked into some of the services teeming with ex-Twitter posters, like Mastodon and Hive.
Stack Overflow banned AI-generated answers.
The trouble with tech in trucking.
Google’s December feature drop is rolling out for Pixel phones.
There is no HBO, there is only “Max” (maybe).
At 5PM ET.
On a Friday.
On Twitter.
With a “live Q&A.”
Kanye’s tweets, Elon’s semi trucks, and lots of ego to go around... just another day on the Internet.
In other stories that aren’t about those people that you may have missed:
Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club) is jumping from Netflix to Amazon.
The Mandalorian returns on March 1st.
There’s a trailer for the Beast Wars Transformers movie.
The new OpenAI bot is chatty, but naive.
There are more cheap laptops coming with AMD’s gaming-friendly RDNA2 tech.
