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Amazon Alexa’s new home: Your PC?

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon wants to put Alexa on your PC 1:28 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant may be talking her way into yet another important place: PCs. Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has held talks with Amazon on potentially using Alexa in its computers and other devices, according to a Lenovo executive with knowledge of the talks. The …

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Honorable mention goes to Netflix’s ‘Mascots’ in this new trailer

Some might say that sports mascots are already a parody of themselves, but no one can take the ridiculous and make it even funnier than Christopher Guest. The man who tackled the world of dog shows (“Best in Show“) and folk singers (“A Mighty Wind“), among other mockumentaries, now takes on team spirit for Netflix in “Mascots.” The first trailer …

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Acer built a massive $5,000

Sometimes companies just make things because they can. That seems to be the case with Acer’s Predator 21 X (the X is for EXTREME), a hulking beast of a laptop that weighs 8 kilograms, or 17 pounds, and features a 21-inch curved display. The curved display is a world’s first, and even the size is notable. Most laptop screens top …

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ZTE wants you to design its next blockbuster gadget

What’s the best way to get you invested in a company? Offer the chance to participate in the creation of its products. That’s exactly what ZTE is doing with Project CSX, an initiative that taps the consumer base for ideas for its next gadget. There are few restrictions on the product, which just needs to be mobile and affordable. The …

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TomTom Spark 3 and TomTom Adventurer announced with GPS, heart rate tracking, music storage and more

Alongside the newly announced Touch fitness tracker, TomTom on Thursday showed off two new GPS sports watches at the IFA trade show in Berlin. There’s the TomTom Spark 3 and TomTom Adventurer, both of which are similar to last year’s TomTom Spark. The key differences are a slightly slimmer design with slimmer watch straps for a more comfortable fit. There’s …

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Samsung reportedly planning recall for Galaxy Note 7

Editors’ note: Samsung has now officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide. See the full story here. Samsung is planning to announce a global recall of its new Galaxy Note 7 phone in less than a week, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, amid reports that batteries in some of the devices have exploded. Word that an unprecedented recall …

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