Amazon plans to roll out a self-branded TV in the US as early as October, Business Insider reported Thursday. The TVs, expected to be big-screen models in the range of 55 to 75 inches, will include compatibility with the company’s Alexa voice assistant, the news outlet said, citing unidentified sources. The US launch has been …

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Apple’s Creative Studios education program launched earlier this summer as a way for disadvantaged youths to receive mentorship and learn skills that’ll take their careers to a new level. With its newest program in Washington, DC, that’ll mean getting a book published. The tech giant’s latest partnerships for its program, this time with writing workshop and publishing house Shout Mouse Press …

Amazon is aiming to hire 55,000 people for corporate and tech jobs around the world in the coming months, CEO Andy Jassy told Reuters on Wednesday. That includes 40,000 jobs in the US. This comes as the e-commerce giant prepares to hold its annual career day on Sept. 15. The new hires would expand Amazon’s corporate and tech staff — currently …

Facebook is getting into fantasy gaming on iOS and Android, it revealed Wednesday. The company launched Facebook Fantasy Games on the Facebook app in the US and Canada, letting you make predictions about sports and TV shows. The first game to launch is Pick & Play Sports, in which you score points for correctly predicting the winner of a big …

Google is reportedly working on its own processors for Chrome OS-powered laptops and tablets. The tech giant could roll out in-house chips for Chromebooks, based on Arm architecture, in 2023, according to a report Wednesday from Nikkei Asia.  Last month, Google revealed that the Pixel 6 will be powered by a new system-on-a-chip that the company designed in house, called …

As any audiophile can tell you, Bluetooth audio technology is all about compression. It’s much better compression than it was in the early days — when Bluetooth speakers and headphones were unforgivably tinny and thin — but in order to go wireless, Bluetooth technology was all about squeezing as much sound into as little bandwidth as possible, quality be damned. …

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 13 could be able to use satellite signals to send text messages in areas without cellular coverage, but at first, those messages will reportedly be limited to emergencies only. Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told investors last week that Apple’s next iPhone will be able to tap into the signals of low-Earth-orbit satellites. As of Monday, Bloomberg is …

Twitter is rolling out a new way to try to limit “unwelcome interactions” in your feed, the company said Wednesday. Safety Mode will impose a seven-day block on accounts that use what Twitter called potentially harmful language. This could include insults or repeated replies and mentions. “Our systems will assess the likelihood of a negative engagement by considering both the …