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Amazon adds new Fire TV Blaster to boost Fire TV home theater control

Do you have a Fire TV Stick and want to have Alexa control your home theater set up? She’ll soon be able to. On Tuesday Amazon announced a new Fire TV Blaster, infrared (IR) transmitter that can be used to control your TV, cable box and speaker with Alexa instead of traditional remote controls.  Not a standalone device, the Blaster …

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Senators call out Facebook over location tracking policies

Two US senators aren’t satisfied with Facebook’s explanations so far on how it uses location data in its app. The legislators say the company is undermining users’ privacy choices.  Sen. Christopher Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, and Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday saying that if users want to …

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