Amazon Prime Day kicks off properly in the UK tomorrow, on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Technically it lasts for two days, though some of the best savings, including tech like headphones, smart speakers, cameras, TVs and more, will last all week — and some notable deals are already available.
Amazon’s own devices (such as Kindle, Echo and Ring) always offer sure-fire bargains, but you can expect big deals on other brands including Sony, Bose, Toshiba and many others. As the name suggests, you have to be an Amazon Prime member to take advantage of the savings.
But while the big Prime Day sale isn’t set to start until tomorrow, savvy UK shoppers can already find some great deals and get an early start to
Amazon Prime Day officially begins in the UK tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 13. It will last for two days, though some of the best savings, including tech like headphones, smart speakers, cameras, TVs and more, will last all week — and some notable deals are available already available.
Amazon’s own devices (such as Kindle, Echo and Ring) always offer sure-fire bargains, but you can expect big deals on other brands including Sony, Bose, Toshiba and many others. As the name suggests, you have to be an Amazon Prime member to take advantage of the savings.
But while the big Prime Day sale isn’t set to start until tomorrow, savvy UK shoppers can already find some great deals now and get an early start to
Amazon Prime Day 2020 kicks off on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and during the two-day shopping event, you can expect to see deep discounts on home appliances, electronics, and all kinds of domestic tech. Ahead of the sales event, however, Amazon Canada has already begun the ramp up to Prime Day by trotting out some sharp deals for early bird shoppers. (Check out Amazon Canada’s press release for the full list of discounts the retailer is promising.)
Here are the best of the early Amazon Prime Day deals we’ve found so far from Amazon Canada. Note that prices and availability were accurate at the time of publication, but are subject to change (as we expect them to on Tuesday).
Amazon line of smart speakers is switching up its look; the new Amazon Echo will be spherical. The price will be $100 (£90), which is what the company’s previous, third-generation Amazon Echo went for. The new Echo speaker will be available Oct. 22, and its fabric-covered body will come in three different colors: charcoal, glacier white and twilight blue. It’s open for preorder now.
For specifics about its design as regards sound quality, Amazon says, “Its 3.0-inch woofer, dual-firing tweeters, and Dolby processing delivers stereo sound with clear highs, dynamic-mids, and deep bass that automatically adapts to any room.”
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While the woofer appears to be the same as the previous Echo’s, Amazon has packed a second .8-inch tweeter into the speaker, which should
A disk of hot material around a supermassive black hole emits a burst of visible light, which travels out to a ring of dust that subsequently emits infrared light. The blue arrows show the light from the disk moving toward the dust and the light from both events traveling toward an observer. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
When you look up at the night sky, how do you know whether the specks of light that you see are bright and far away, or relatively faint and close by? One way to find out is to compare how much light the object actually emits with how bright it appears. The difference between its true luminosity and its apparent brightness reveals an object’s distance from the observer.
Measuring the luminosity of a celestial object is challenging, especially with black holes, which don’t emit light. But the supermassive black holes that lie at the center of
Like many of its predecessors, the 2020 edition of Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Echo/Alexa event was jam-packed with hardware, software and services announcements.
Among other things, Jeff Bezos’ firm revealed new Echo speakers and Fire TV sticks, a revamped Fire TV UI, Alexa improvements, a cloud gaming service known as Luna, a security service known as Alexa Guard Plus, Ring security products for cars and a $250 autonomous home security drone that for some reason was named the Always Home Cam.
Here are a few thoughts on what Amazon showed off.
1. Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Isn’t For Everyone, But it Has a Selling Point or Two
For the time being, the Luna cloud gaming service has more in common with Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Stadia gaming service than with Microsoft’s (MSFT) xCloud service.
Whereas xCloud is bundled with an existing gaming service (Xbox Game Pass Ultimate) and for now only works on Android
Your Amazon Echo device is getting a slew of new features, which Amazon announced this week at a private, virtual media event. The changes range from a totally redesigned line of Echo speakers (they’re spherical!) to software enhancements that promise to make Alexa on your existing Amazon Echo smarter and more secure.
The tech giant also announced a rotating Echo Show and a flying security camera drone that can survey your house, along with new Echo devices for kids. They’ll all be able to take advantage of Alexa’s new features.
Here are the six best new Amazon Echo features and how you’ll use them once they become available.
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Amazon launched two new smart home products that can move within the home: the Echo Show 10 and Ring Always Home Cam.
The Echo Show 10 can reorient its display, camera, and speakers to face the user’s direction, while the Ring Always Home Cam is a mini security drone that can fly around the home.
Both product could serve as a step toward Amazon’s broader ambitions to build an Alexa-enabled home robot, as reports from Business Insider and Bloomberg have indicated.
But the company will have to overcome serious privacy concerns along the way.
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Amazon’s presence in the home took a big leap forward this week, and not just because the online retail giant announced a completely redesigned Echo lineup and big updates to Alexa.
Amazon’s smart home devices, whether it be an Echo speaker, Eero mesh router, or Ring security camera, have
Your Amazon Echo device is getting a slew of new features, which Amazon announced Thursday at a private, virtual media event. The changes range from a totally redesigned line of Echo speakers (they’re spherical!) to software enhancements that promise to make your existing Amazon Echo smarter and more secure.
The tech giant also announced a rotating Echo Show and a flying security camera drone that can survey your house, along with new kids’ Echo devices.
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Here are the six best new Amazon Echo features and how you’ll use them once they become available.
Echo Guard Plus enhances home security
Amazon’s Echo Guard was released as a free home security feature to help detect and alert you to glass breaking
Given how far these digital devices reach into our lives, that’s welcome news.
Echo devices reach deeply into our existence. We use them to get answers to questions, control lights and play music. Our kids see us using them, and kids mimic their parents. So in coming months, Amazon will give parents the option of setting up voice profiles for their children in order to produce kid-friendly responses, the giant retailer said at its device product launch event Thursday.
Once voice profiles are set up, the Alexa device will return kid-friendly answers, games, music, Audible books and premium skills, for example. The feature dovetails with the new