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Google’s new sideloading process has already stirred plenty of frustration among Android users. Amazon added to the unease when its Vega OS-powered Fire TV Stick HD warned buyers that they couldn’t install apps from unknown sources. So when Downloader suddenly stopped working for some Fire TV owners, it was easy to suspect another sideloading crackdown.…

Amazon has now officially announced Prime Big Deal Days for October. The Fall Prime Day event is now official with an early October start time to deliver another massive Amazon sale event and a series of early deals you can shop right now. 

Joining a series of deals and all-time lows on Galaxy Z Fold 8, we also tracking some discounts on the new Galaxy Watch 9 today in the form of straight up cash deals and FREE Amazon credits. Those offers sit alongside the first cash discounts on Pixel 11 series devices, a bunch of the official…

Amazon Prime Video is coming after TikTok with the addition of short-form news clips. The company said on Monday that it’s expanding its news coverage to include on-demand news clips offering both local and national stories. These will be available on TVs and other living room devices, but will soon roll out to the web…

Fake ‘energy-saving’ plugs are one of the biggest tech scams, and they’re still being sold on Amazon even though the retailer promised MPs it would remove the product listings.

Just this past weekend we caught the first cash discounts landing across the new Pixel 11 series and with the Pixel Watch 5 now out in the wild, Amazon is landing with some clearance all-time low pricing on Pixel Watch 4. 

Joining the ongoing M6 Mac mini pre-orders, as well as the new AirPods 5, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and Apple Watch Series 12, this morning Amazon is kicking the week off with a solid $150 price drop on this Midnight 16GB M5 MacBook Air. 

When you build an application on top of a large language model (LLM), the prompt you send to the model typically has two parts. There’s a fixed part that sets up context (instructions, reference documents, conversation history) and a variable part that contains the actual user input. Take a customer service bot as an example.…

If you’re an Alexa+ or Amazon Prime member, your interactions with Alexa are no longer relegated to fairly standard voice types or the creepy “Whisper Mode.” Amazon now lets eligible users experiment with eight different voice types (depending on region/country) and several intriguing personalities, like Sassy, Chill and Original. While each brings its own unique…

The iPhone 18 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro are the latest examples of a familiar story: Apple and Google refining, rather than reinventing, mature flagship smartphones. Both are expensive, powerful phones with top-notch screens, three rear cameras and (like it or not) an ever-growing list of AI features. They both come in two sizes and…