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Tour the dog

It’s safe to say Whistle’s office in San Francisco is one of the most dog-friendly workplaces you’ll ever see. Whistle makes an activity monitor and GPS device for dogs. Development takes place at the company’s San Francisco office where they have several tools — including a machine called RoboDog — to stress test the device. There are multiple ways to …

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I controlled a Sony OLED Android TV with an Amazon Echo Dot

One of my favorite things about my TV setup at home is the ability to say “Alexa, turn on the TV” and have the TV fire up, my AV receiver switch to the right input and my TiVo ready for action — er, vegetation. To do all that, I use a Harmony universal remote. That’s because Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant …

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