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Alexa gets its first celeb voice with Oprah, but it’s just a holiday promo

sudshr47 November 2, 2017

 Alexa is getting its first celebrity voice, and it’s Oprah. Before you get too excited, Oprah won’t respond to your day-to-day questions, as Alexa does – instead, the addition of Oprah’s voice is part of a holiday shopping promotion between Oprah’s O magazine and Amazon, where Oprah will help Alexa customers shop her “Favorite Things.”
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Alexa gets its first celeb voice with Oprah, but it’s just a holiday promo

sudshr47 November 2, 2017

 Alexa is getting its first celebrity voice, and it’s Oprah. Before you get too excited, Oprah won’t respond to your day-to-day questions, as Alexa does – instead, the addition of Oprah’s voice is part of a holiday shopping promotion between Oprah’s O magazine and Amazon, where Oprah will help Alexa customers shop her “Favorite Things.”
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Don’t miss Amazon’s first ‘Countdown to Black Friday’ deals

sudshr47 November 1, 2017

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Amazon is dominating the hardware, delivery, and infrastructure scenes right now, and it looks like it’s going to dominate Black Friday too. Today, the commerce giant is kicking off the Black Friday lead-up season with 10 pretty unbelievable deals. 

The selection is reasonably diverse, spanning consumer electronics, kitchenware, toys, clothing, and so much more. 

Head over to Amazon’s Countdown to Black Friday page to grab the following products at some of their lowest prices of the year:

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Amazon’s app will use AR to convince you to buy all the things

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Amazon wants to give you even more reason to buy everything you could possibly want online just in time for the holiday season — so the e-retail behemoth is branching out into another state of reality.  

The company just announced a new augmented reality (AR) functionality for the Amazon App that will give shoppers a chance to envision real-world products around their homes before deciding to buy them. 

Want to see how that fancy looking, Prime-eligible coffee table fits in your living room? Just pull up the Amazon app, enable the AR camera, and boom: You can see exactly how it would fit, there on your phone in front of you.  Read more…

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Audible’s new romance audiobooks service uses machine learning to jump to the sex scenes

sudshr47 November 1, 2017

 Let’s admit it: you probably aren’t reading that romance novel for the plot. Or its literary value. Audible knows this, and is today launching a new collection of romance-themed audiobooks that come with a handy feature that lets you skip right to the action. Called “Take Me To The Good Part,” the feature will fast-forward you to the steamy sections of the audiobook,… Read More

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Amazon adds an AR shopping feature to its iOS app

sudshr47 November 1, 2017

 Amazon today is introducing a new feature called AR View that lets customers visualize online products in their own living space, using their smartphone camera. Launched today in the Amazon app for iOS devices, AR View offers the ability to view thousands of products for the home or office – including furniture, electronics, toys, games, home décor and more – in augmented reality.… Read More

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Target, Walmart, and Ebay are pushing Christmas way too early

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Halloween’s over, and Christmas is right around the corner.

At least that’s how the retail gatekeepers of America’s ever-elongating holiday shopping season now see it.

Ebay and Walmart are already breaking out the tinsel this week with yuletide promotionsAmazon’s Black Friday deals are already being teased. Meanwhile, Target has outdone them both by vowing to keep festivities within a respectable window (*at a small number of stores) and then immediately decorating its sales racks with an an odd mix of candy corn and canes days before it was even time to trick-or-treat. 

“There’s simply no reason to wait for Black Friday to find the best prices or top gifts this holiday season when shoppers can start AND finish early with eBay,” Ebay chief marketing officer Suzy Deering said in the site’s holiday deal announcement. Read more…

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