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Amazon Fire TV and Nvidia Shield get chattier (The 3:59, Ep. 291)

The worlds of voice assistants and streaming devices are quickly colliding.  In just the past 24 hours, Amazon unveiled a new Fire TV with integration to its Alexa digital butler and the Nvidia Shield became the first TV device to get Google Assistant. For today’s episode, we invited CNET’s TV guru, David Katzmaier, to run through the details of these …

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Titanic VR ride at NYC Samsung store is as weird as it sounds

I looked at my colleague as we took a breather at the bathroom sink, moments after we had sat together in a boat. With VR helmets on. No, we weren’t exactly sure what just happened, either. We were right off the Highline — the elevated park and major tourist attraction –at Samsung’s flagship 837 showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Here, …

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