Current users won't be missing out on Alexa, as they have promised that Alexa will be made available on select devices through updates. When Vuzix last week announced that its Alexa-enabled augmented reality smart glasses would debut at CES , you had to know it was just the beginning of the Alexa avalanche coming in 2018. Read More »
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Amazon Alexa will become your co-pilot in Toyota, Lexus cars
A number of carmakers have introduced Amazon Alexa voice commands that can activate the locks and climate control on their cars , but Toyota is going a step further with Alexa integration by bringing Alexa into the vehicle. Amazon is pushing for Alexa to be integrated into pretty much everything , from cars to fridges, thanks to providing developers with the tools to easily fit the virtual assistant into their devices. Read More »
Dark Souls Remastered Runs At Upscaled 4K/60FPS On PS4 Pro and XB1X
The Dark Souls Remaster will be launching in May on all platforms. Dark Souls was first released in 2011 and went on to become a cult smash that spawned two direct sequels and a host of imitators, ranging from Lords of the Fallen to Nioh . Read More »
Snow-melting rain, flooding and fog forecast for Friday
Wind chill values could be as low as minus 15 degrees from northwesterly, then southeasterly winds in the afternoon. The record high for the month was set on January 29, 2013, when the temperature reached 63 degrees. The temperature is expected to warm slowly, starting on Martin Luther King Jr. "Rain will change to a brief period of freezing rain and sleet by Saturday afternoon", the service said. Read More »
Bandai Namco Not Planning to Release Dark Souls Trilogy in America
Dark Souls: Remastered will include the original Dark Souls game and all DLC ever released to her. For the Nintendo Switch , the game will be available in 1080p with 30 fps in TV mode. In GameSpot's original Dark Souls review Kevin VanOrd awarded it a 9.5/10, describing it as "riveting". Though it's unclear just how Dark Souls: Remastered will perform undocked, my bet is that the Switch will run it at a standard 720p 30 fps (which isn't bad). Read More »
Toyota to Introduce Amazon Alexa in its Vehicles
Although the concept sounds like the future of driving technology, cars will not be able to use voice assistants for an entirely autonomous driving experience. According to a variety of reports coming out of CES 2018 , Vuzix is adding Alexa into its Blade smart glasses which have been officially revealed at the gadget show and are apparently due to hit the market in the second quarter of this year for a cool $1,000. Read More »
Multiple sites rich in water ice found on Mars
The surface of the planet had been mapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in much detail and Dundas and his colleagues used its pictures to locate exposed ice in small craters, glaciers and ice sheets. Scientists now want to seek out similar cliffs closer to the equator, hoping that the next surprise awaiting them is the discovery of ice nearer to the tropics. Read More »
BuzzFeed Chief Defends Trump Pee Dossier: 'I'm Proud We Published'
He wrote in the lawsuit that BuzzFeed published the unverified allegations "without attempting to determine the veracity of these reports with plaintiff himself". In the transcript , Simpson told congressional leaders that he believed the dossier was credible because an unidentified "human source" associated with Trump had offered the Federal Bureau of Investigation corroborating information. Read More »
Nvidia Shield TV Will Soon Get the Android Oreo Update
The rollout of 8.0 will resume in next couple of weeks, Mi India confirmed on social media. As an aside, the U11 is now receiving its December security patch with version 2.42.617.1. If your device meets the prerequisites, you simply need to root it and flash a custom recovery like TWRP to do the installation. Make sure you are connected with high-speed Internet connection before downloading the update for your system. Read More »
Dark Souls 2 And Dark Souls 3 Coming To Nintendo Switch
The games that come with the Dark Souls Trilogy Box are Dark Souls Remastered , Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin , and Dark Souls 3: The Fire Fades Edition . Dark Souls Remastered will also support "up to six players" for online multiplayer. Chances are it's going to be a similar sort of affair to Dark Souls , Demon's Souls and Bloodborne , but who knows. Read More »
Sivan K appointed as Space Secretary
On his elevation, Sivan said: "This is a rare opportunity". He studied in government schools in Tarakkanvilai and at neighbouring Valangumaravilai in Tamil medium. Sivan has received numerous awards throughout his career. The entire launch of satellites is expected to happen over a period of 2 hours and 21 seconds, it said. Read More »
Global East Ball Valve Market Vendors: Kitz, Tyco, Flowserve, Emerson and Cameron
How will the regulatory scenario affect the Bag On Valve Technology market? It also comprehensively provides a study that directly helps to analyze the Automotive Engine Oil share in global market, key manufacturer's profile, market size, sales, volume and much more. Read More »
Author of Trump dossier said feds had a mole in Trump campaign
In an extraordinary Oval Office exchange, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the US should permit immigrants from "s--thole countries" as he rejected a plan by a bipartisan group of senators that would have changed rules affecting entrants from Africa and Haiti, according to three people briefed on the conversation. Read More »
Vetr Downgrades Applied Materials (AMAT) to Buy
A total of 2,101,258 shares exchanged hands during the intra-day trade contrast with its average trading volume of 2.74M shares, while its relative volume stands at 0.77. Fiera Cap Corporation accumulated 21,000 shares. The firm also leases helicopters to third parties and foreign affiliates; engineers, makes, and distributes after-market helicopter parts and accessories; and provides classroom instruction, flight simulator, and other training services. Read More »
What a Rare Snow in the Sahara Looks Like From Space
Snow covers portions of the Sahara Desert in rare weather occurrence. While many US states record their coldest temperatures ever in the bitter winter chill that grips the eastern United States, Australia, on the other hand is experiencing its hottest temperatures in almost 80 years at 116.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Read More »
Battle Royale Mode to be Update with More Points of Interest
However, the update coming next week will contain one of the largest changes to the game yet, bringing with it a revamped map containing numerous new locations for players to drop in for their bout of looting and scooting. Last but not least, the Fortnite Battle Royale Map Update will remove the existent Christmas trees along with the chests that were placed beside them. Read More »
Intel botches patch for chip flaw
Google says Spectre and Meltdown "represent a new class of attack" and that "they're just a few among the many different types of threats our infrastructure is created to defend against every day". Even better news is that Google has open-sourced Reptoline so that other companies can take advantage of it in their own Spectre fixes. Operating systems vendors are rolling out their part of the fix where they can, although it's not clear whether Google's approach can be integrated with that. Read More »
Supermassive Black Hole is Caught Letting Out Massive 'Burps'
This simply means that one of them was ejected to one side of the black hole, and the other one, which is actually bigger and more compact, got ejected 100 thousand year later, in the other direction. It owes this fine service to a galaxy that collided with J1354 at some point. With so much circling this particular galactic drain all at the same time, it does make sense that occasionally, bottlenecked gas gets bubbled back out, spreading forth out into the galaxy as if deliberately and ... Read More »
United Kingdom minister resigns after rejecting PM's reshuffle: govt source
Justine Greening , who was born and went to school in Rotherham, has refused a job as work and pensions secretary. While Theresa May plodded through prime minister's questions on Wednesday, many eyes were looking over her left shoulder at an MP sitting on the farthest bench back. Read More »
Detective Pikachu Gets a Western Release, Huge Amiibo
It's not only larger than a regular amiibo but it also lets players view all the Pika Prompts that they've uncovered throughout their adventure. Perhaps it's no surprise the game which inspired the film is finally being released in the West. Read More »
3 emerging storylines as Patriots face Titans in the playoffs
RB Derrick Henry rushed for 156 yards and a TD last week , joining Eddie George (1/16/2000) as only players in team history with 150-plus yards rushing in postseason game ... It's verboten to talk about going after a player, so in this case let's pretend Titans defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau has called a blitz so well-crafted that a linebacker comes free and knocks the multiple-time Super Bowl MVP from the game. Read More »
India launches Cartosat 2 Series satellite, 29 others
He told mediapersons after the successful launch of PSLV-C40/Cartosat-2 series mission that the satellites included nine student ones made by some universities while hinting that they could not be counted in Isro's account. India will use its latest satellites for better border surveillance and obtaining high resolution images of the earth. Experts have said that the PSLV-C40 is a very sophisticated surveillance tool. Read More »
Destiny 2 Xur location and items, January 12-15
Otherwise, your options are four pieces of Curse of Osiris gear, including the Exotic grenade launcher The Colony . Note that all of the exotic items available this week are from Curse of Osiris, so if you don't have the expansion, you will be unable to purchase them . Read More »
Ford will begin testing its business model for autonomous vehicles in 2018
In related news, GM/Cruise, Waymo/Google, and many others are now working to bring similar services to market within the near future. The announcements focus on providing cities with cloud services to better understand the autonomous vehicles zooming around their streets, building hardware for vehicles to communicate with one another, and testing new services that are powered by self-driving cars. Read More »
Mark Helfrich Set to Become Chicago Bears Offensive Coordinator
The Arizona Cardinals possibly will be part of what will appear to be a defensive coordinator trade with the Chicago Bears . Nagy and Pace were measured in their remarks at Tuesday's introductory news conference, but by the end of that night, signs were pointing toward a return. Read More »
Ford 'sued by truck owners in US' over diesel emissions
The lawsuit also names automotive parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH as a defendant, and both companies have denied the allegations. Another lawsuit over diesel emissions was filed Wednesday in federal court in Detroit. Although the complaint says that Ford and tech partner Bosch worked in tandem to create a system that would hide the real-life emissions in order to maintain the performance promised to vehicle users. Read More »
White Teacher Won't Be Punished For Threatening Black Student With Lynching
Agee-Bell said she too believes her son is courageous is and proud of him for speaking out. The boy reportedly told the teacher at the time that she was racist . Once Agee-Bell was made aware of the comment, she called the school to complain and request Thole apologize to the class, which she did. "My son was walking around thinking he did something wrong", Agee-Bell said. Read More »
Dry weather Friday and Saturday, precipitation in Sunday's forecast
Monday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. Lows are expected to be in the mid-teens and highs in the mid-fifties throughout the week. The weather service has issued wind chill warnings for northwestern and central IL and wind chill advisories for the Chicago area and parts of central and southern IL. Read More »
Wi-Fi Alliance WPA3 Launch Improves Healthcare Network Security
The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 35,000 Wi-Fi products since the turn of the millennium. The new standards will offer robust protections even when users choose to protect their documents with "1234", as well as simplify the process of setting up security for devices with limited or no display interface for smart home devices. Read More »
Dust, Not Aliens, Is Likely Cause of Star's Weird Dimming
Boyajian "absolutely" intends to pursue follow-up observations of KIC 8462852, but she isn't sure whether numerous same contributors to the first Kickstarter campaign would come back in light of the fact that aliens have been ruled out. the dips are not caused by opaque macroscopic objects (like megastructures or planets or stars) but by clouds of very small particles of dust (less than 1 micron in typical size)". Read More »
Natalie Portman may play astronaut in film
Reese Witherspoon , who was approached first by the makers of the movie, left the project after her schedule clashed with the shooting of season 2 of "Big Little Lies" . The developing drama, Pale Blue Dot , appears to be putting an outer space spin on post-traumatic stress disorder, this time as experienced by a female astronaut, rather than armed service personnel. Read More »
Is The Prince Of Persia Franchise Ready For Ressurection?
In the early 2000s, the Prince of Persia franchise was perhaps one of the most successful gaming franchises around, producing multiple games that were usually all received well by the fans and critics alike. However, Ubisoft doesn't seem to be interested in bringing back the franchise for obvious reasons but, we really hope that Mechner is successful in reviving the franchise. Read More »
Ancient "ocean world" may have seeded meteorites with life's ingredients
Lead author Dr Queenie Chan , a postdoctoral researcher at OU, said: 'We collected the tiny salt crystals from the meteorites and dissolved them in water so that we could extract the amino acids and separate any organic compounds to analyse them. Read More »
Airtel Broadband Users Can Avail Free Amazon Prime Membership for One Year
The offer for one year of Amazon Prime is activated exclusively through the Airtel TV app. This tie is going to work best for all the Airtel users for sure. It offers content in 15 languages through the application. Airtel's Infinity Postpaid plans come with unlimited local, STD and national roaming calls along with data rollover facility and device protection. Read More »
Capital Advisors INC Upped Position in Microsoft Corp (MSFT) by $12.12 Million
Foster Dykema Cabot & Co Inc who had been investing in Microsoft Corporation for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $675.18 billion market cap company. Shares for $507.89M were sold by Morfit G Mason on Friday, August 4. The shares were sold at an average price of $58.58, for a total value of $1,088,592.14. Read More »