Google Assistant is available on devices of all shapes and sizes, but the vast majority of useful smart speakers that support it are designed to be used in one place, indoors. I’ve been wanting a solution to bring Assistant and, in turn, Chromecast audio around my home wire-free. As it turns out, the Sonos Roam is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Sonos Roam is battery-powered speaker…
REE Automotive and Hino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Group, announced a business alliance to design and produce solutions in “next-generation commercial mobility.” The alliance will combine Hino’s experience as a commercial vehicle manufacturer with REE’s…
Fearful of Google winning messaging, Apple executive argued for iMessage on Android in 2013
April 28, 2021
Epic’s lawsuit against Apple has revealed quite a bit about iMessage for Android, including how platform lock-in is one reason it doesn’t exist. New filings today revealed that Apple executive Eddy Cue made the case for iMessage on Android to stop Google from owning…
Nintendo finally adds online play to a huge Switch hit
April 27, 2021
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Nintendo is finally updating Super Mario Party with online play. This comes — well, not just in time for stay-at-home orders due to the pandemic (which started more than a year ago). But it’s a welcome addition regardless as many people countries await the vaccine. Social distancing is still an everyday…
Sigma has announced the 35mm f/1.4 DG DN Art lens for E-Mount and L-Mount. The company says that the original 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM that was announced in 2012 — the first of all the Art lenses that set the standard for the line — has been redesigned from the ground up…
Which DSLR System Held Its Value Better, Canon or Nikon?
April 27, 2021
Canon and Nikon have ruled the DSLR landscape for a couple of decades now, but which one has proven more valuable in the long run? Let’s set the scene and then crunch some numbers.
This story is part of KEH’s Tilt-Shift Report, where the company shares exclusive data…
Leica is further diversifying its portfolio or partnerships into a new home theater projector manufactured by JMGO. The two companies originally teamed up in 2020 and the new JMGO O1 Pro is the first fruit of that partnership.
JMGO launched in 2011 and quickly secured the number one market share for projectors in China by 2014. The company is now attempting to aggressively expand into…
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Adobe today unfurled an enhanced Adobe Customer Journey Analytics cloud service that enables organizations to apply AI to data from both online and offline sources to gain deeper insights into…
Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
April 27, 2021
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Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now, several innovative companies are working to build a similar open source software stack for AI development.
Dan Jeffries was there when the…
ImagenAI has announced its AI-powered photo editing desktop app for Adobe Lightroom workflows that learns your personalized editing style and creates an AI profile that analyzes each image and predicts how you will edit and apply it in a matter of seconds.
The process is much like that provided by services such as ShootDotEdit except this application takes the human element out of the process…
