PSA: Alexa Plus may be why your smart clock has become useless

TL;DR A post on the Amazon Echo subreddit indicates that an Alexa Plus subscription can make unintended changes to Echo devices. User Setati said that their Echo Show 5 had stopped persistently showing the time on its home screen, instead surfacing news and other content. Setati says that canceling Alexa Plus removed the unwanted additional … Read more

Google and Mercedes just showed us what Gemini can do in a car

TL;DR Google and Mercedes just gave us a glimpse at what Gemini will be able to do inside cars, and it’s pretty impressive. The demo video shows Mercedes’ Chief Software Officer, Magnus Östberg, and Google Cloud’s Head of Automotive, Steve Basra, take the Gemini-powered Mercedes CLA out for a drive. The duo interacts with Gemini … Read more

This new Ring camera feature is seriously creeping people out

Credit: Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon’s new “Familiar Faces” feature gives Ring cameras and doorbells facial recognition powers, and people aren’t too happy about it. Both Ring users and non-users are uneasy about the feature because of potential legal, security, and privacy risks. The feature won’t launch in states with strict facial recognition … Read more