Amazon is introducing a new Alexa feature that will notify you if an item on your wishlist or in your shopping cart is about to go on sale and then order it on your behalf if you ask it to do so. The feature is now available for Amazon Prime customers in the United States across all newer-generation Echo smart speakers.
Facebook parent Meta is paying a Republican consulting firm to orchestrate a campaign to turn the public against TikTok, promoting bogus stories about TikTok trends that originated on Facebook. The campaign also includes op-eds, letters to the editor, and drawing political reporters into helping take down the company's biggest competitor.
UniFarm will absorb asset-backed non-fungible token (NFT) platform ‘OpenDeFi’ with native token $ORO. UniFarm aims to create a single ecosystem offering services such as staking, lending, borrowing, along with NFT and Metaverse. OpenDeFi is a platform that encourages tokenization of real-world assets.
The Dyson Zone is the company's first wearable product. It is a set of large, plush headphones with a plastic mask-type contraption. It connects from ear-to-ear across the wearer’s mouth. The headphones deliver up to 5 litres of clean air a second.
Tumblr is expanding its tip jar feature by introducing blog-level tipping for its iOS and web applications. The company rolled out its tip jars feature last month allowing users to leave tips on posts. Tumblr says the expansion will benefit creators because it permits tipping at the blog level without tying the tip to a post.
Google has begun rolling out a new update to its iOS YouTube TV app for iPhone and iPad users. The update allows users to take advantage of picture-in-picture functionality. To watch something in PiP mode, swipe up from the bottom of the screen and the video will automatically resize and move across your device's display.
A week-long virtual fashion event took place in the metaverse. The metaverse is a network of unique digital worlds that has grabbed the fashion world's attention. The Business of Fashion has projected it will be the "next goldmine" The event included catwalks from the likes of Dolce & Gabbana and Philipp Plein.
Intel launches its first Arc A-series of discrete graphics cards for laptops. The A350M and A370M have six Xe-cores and six ray-tracing units. They're meant for ultraportable devices that intend to offer more graphical firepower than integrated graphics alone.
Alibaba leads $60 million investment in augmented reality glasses maker Nreal. AR is seen as a key technology for the so-called metaverse, the latest buzzword in internet technology. Users can wear Nreal’s two glasses products to access AR applications such as games or movies.
Hackers target gaming-focused network that supports popular video game Axie Infinity. Hackers made off with about $625 million worth of E- and USDC, two cryptocurrencies. The hack is one of the largest crypto hacks of all time, according to experts.
United Parcel Service is set to announce an expansion of its 2019 deal with Google Cloud. UPS will receive increased network, storage and compute capacity as part of the expansion. The companies declined to comment on the size of the cloud capacity increase or the value of the deal.