Amazon planning to launch Alexa-powered TV in October
American tech giant Amazon may release Amazon-branded TVs as soon as October. The company has previously launched smart displays, smart speakers and Fire TV sticks.
Oct 9: New research suggests your Android TV streaming box might be facilitating cybercrime.
In January, a researcher discovered his inexpensive Android TV streaming box purchased on Amazon, concisely named the T95, was infected with malware before he ever took it out of the box
According to a source, Microsoft may release an Xbox streaming gadget within the next 12 months. Through Xbox Gaming Pass Ultimate, customers will be able to access movies, TV shows, and a game library on the streaming device. According to the story, Microsoft is also collaborating with Samsung to create an Xbox game-streaming software for Samsung's televisions.
The announcement comes just days after Microsoft revealed that Xbox Cloud Gaming subscribers will be able to play Fortnite for free on Android, iOS, and Windows devices. According to VentureBeat (GamesBeat), the gadget will resemble an Amazon Fire TV Stick or a Roku-like puck, according to sources familiar with the situation.
It should be mentioned that Xbox consoles also allow users to download and stream applications such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Furthermore, Microsoft is rumored to be collaborating with Samsung on an app that would allow Samsung smart TV customers the same access as the Xbox...
For its newest Echo and Echo Dot devices, Amazon has included a new capability. The smart speakers will be able to detect occupancy in a house using ultrasonic and turn on/off linked devices like lights or your Fire TV.
The capability, which was initially revealed in September at Amazon's autumn hardware event, is now available for third-generation Echo and Echo Dot speakers. The Alexa app will allow users to enable or disable this capability. Users may now create occupancy routines that leverage the new capabilities to do activities like turning on lights upon entering a room and shutting them off when the space is empty.
Users may also tell Alexa to play music when motion is detected near an Echo speaker for a certain amount of time, and then turn it off when they leave. For each compatible Echo device, the function will be listed under Motion Detection in the Alexa app settings. This capability appears to be comparable to the motion-sensing feature featured on newer...
Netflix has begun broadcasting the AV1 codec to a limited number of TVs and PlayStation 4 Pro consoles. The Alliance of Open Media has granted the AV1 codec a royalty-free license, making it the most recent video codec in the industry (AOMedia). Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Netflix, Microsoft, and others are among the companies that support the codec. Netflix is now offering AV1 streaming on a limited number of TVs.
However, owing to PS4 Pro compatibility, Netflix material may be streamed in AV1 to any TV connected to the game console. In February of last year, Netflix began offering AV1 video streaming on its Android app. Netflix published a blog post announcing the debut of AV1 playback on TVs. Netflix will first provide several of its popular films with the new codec, including Money Heist, because AV1 requires more CPU hours to encode. "We have a stream analyzer built into our encoding workflow that guarantees all Netflix AV1 streams are consistent with the...
Amazon has grown exponentially because of its willingness to sustain losses and invest aggressively at the expense of profits. Furthermore, the e-commerce giant is integrated vertically across business lines selling products online, publishing books, providing cloud services, extending credits, selling online advertisements, designing clothes, and producing movies and TV shows.
Online shopping giant Amazon is buying MGM, the movie and TV studio behind James Bond, “Legally Blonde” and “Shark Tank,” with the hopes of filling its video streaming service with more stuff to watch
The Premier League has agreed to roll over its existing television deal with broadcasters for a further three years. The new deal with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video, and BBC Sport will run from 2022 to 2025.
HONG KONG, April 27: European and Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday ahead of a big week of key events including the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting, Joe Biden's State of the Union address and earnings from tech titans.
While trading floors are geared up for a rocket-fuelled surge in economic activity in the second half of the year and into the next thanks to vaccinations and the easing of lockdowns, investors are in wait-and-see mode for now.
The Fed's gathering, which concludes Wednesday, is broadly expected to see it reassert its pledge to maintain ultra-loose policy until its goals on unemployment and inflation are met, though its statement will be parsed for an idea about the state of the US
economy.
The central bank's meetings are a crucial focus of investor interest as they continue to fret that the expected strong recovery will send prices soaring and force policymakers to raise the record low interest rates that have been a pillar of the global rally.
"From what I can tell, the Fed is very close to meeting its objectives, but remains committed to keeping key short-term interest rates at or near zero through 2023," said markets strategist Louis Navellier.
"The truth of the matter is the Fed can never raise key short-term interest rates much, otherwise it risks blowing up the federal government's budget deficit, which is expected to cross above $30 trillion soon. So we will likely remain in an ultralow interest rate environment for the rest of our lifetimes!" Hilary Kramer, of Kramer Capital Research, was also upbeat.
"I am a bull," she told Bloomberg TV. Fed boss Jerome Powell "is going to make sure he keeps rates low, he's going to lag behind rather than trying to get ahead of inflation".
The release of earnings from Wall Street giants including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet will be closely watched, with forecasts on the strong side.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both ended Monday at record highs. But Asia struggled to follow suit with most markets swinging in and out of positive territory. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Seoul, Jakarta and Manila were all in the red but Singapore, Taipei, Mumbai and Bangkok edged up. Shanghai was marginally higher.
London rose soon after the open but Paris and Frankfurt dipped. Oil prices rose after taking a hefty hit in recent days on worries about the impact on demand from the frightening spread of the coronavirus in major consumer India, with a meeting of OPEC and other major producers also in focus.
Wednesday also sees Biden make his first State of the Union address to Congress, during which he could unveil a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan that would provide national child care, paid family leave and free community college, paid for with higher taxes on the rich.
Britons spent 40% of their waking day watching TV and online video at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown in April, including spending twice as long watching streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video, regulator Ofcom said.
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