Shaquille O’Neal (Shaq) and Melissa McCarthy have been announced by Amazon as the new celebrity voice options for Alexa. In a statement announcing the two new additions posted on Amazon’s website, the company said that it’s aware that customers “enjoy hearing from their favorite celebrities.” “In fact, when we introduced the Samuel L. Jackson celebrity personality, it quickly became the top selling digital purchase on Amazon.com the day it launched,” the announcement reads. According to a statement from Melissa McCarthy included in the announcement, she is “excited” to join Alexa and describes the whole process as a “fun experience.” Shaquille…
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Mark B., Tech Times 16 July 2021, 09:07 pm While the eSIM has been seeing a sluggish uptake in the communications sector around the world, founder and CEO of telco software provider Mobilise, Hamish White, explains why we’re already in the eSIM era. Up until now, embedded SIM cards are still far from receiving the mainstream support and rollout it deserves, despite these devices playing increasingly important roles in the development of the Internet of Things. One of the main reasons for the upheaval is the lack of support from telco providers themselves, which White explains as inevitable given the…
Apple AirPods and AirPods Max have also been subjected to its imitations and copies, with the US Customs had confiscated $62 million worth of the device since the last fiscal year. Before this, they have only seen worth $3.3 million of the devices, meaning that throughout the pandemic, the fake’s popularity grew, and so did the demand for them. There are a lot of fakes circulating online, and most of them are copies of the Apple AirPods, a very popular device from the company since its release in 2016. Somehow, AirPods have been a statement, with influencers and personalities always wearing…
A rare case of human monkeypox was detected in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday, making it the first case of the virus seen in the state.The viral illness was found in a US resident, who recently traveled from Nigeria to the United States and is currently hospitalized in Dallas.”While rare, this case is not a reason for alarm and we do not expect any threat to the general public,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. Other than Nigeria, outbreaks have also been reported in central and western African countries since 1970, with a…
More than 1,000 people were missing in flood-hit regions of Germany and Belgium on Friday, where waters were still rising with the death toll already well over 100 and communications in some areas cut.Entire communities lay in ruins after swollen rivers swept through towns and villages in the western German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Belgium as well as the Netherlands.In Germany alone, at least 103 people have died in what is the country’s worst mass loss of life in years. Twelve of the dead were residents of a home for disabled people in Sinzig to the south of…
The Delta variant of Covid-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide and is driving a surge of deaths around the United States, almost entirely among unvaccinated people, American officials told Reuters on Friday.”Cases of Covid-19 are up 70% over the previous week and deaths are up 26%, with most of the surge occuring in counties with below average vaccination rates,” US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said during a press briefing.”There is a clear message that is coming through: This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky told reporters.More than 33,000 new cases on were…
(Photo : GettlyImages/ SOPA Images ) Windows 11 Windows 11 will roll out a new widgets button. It will be located at the taskbar, and it can open a menu with quick access to different categories, such as traffic, news, sports, weather, and more. Windows 11 Widgets Access A widget is a small graphical app that is made for fast access to information, including the news and weather. Widgets are usually presented separately from regular apps in an operating system, according to Tom’s Hardware. The icons usually stay running in the background while you do other tasks, so they can be…
Russia on Friday said that the United States had failed in its mission in Afghanistan and blamed the withdrawal of foreign forces for the war-torn country’s rapidly deteriorating stability.Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have capitalised on the last stages of the withdrawal of foreign troops to launch offensives, capturing a swath of districts and border crossings, and encircling provincial capitals.The White House had tried to paint the drawdown of foreign troops in “the most positive colours”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.”But everyone understands that the mission failed,” he told reporters at a conference in Uzbekistan attended by Afghan…
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Friday the United States “has failed in its efforts to destroy Cuba,” after Joe Biden called the island nation “a failed state.””The United States has failed in its efforts to destroy Cuba, despite spending billions of dollars to do so,” the Communist leader tweeted, five days after historic anti-government protests saw one death, dozens of injuries and more than 100 arrests.”A failed state is a state which, in order to please and blackmail a reactionary minority, is capable of multiplying the damage to 11 million human beings, ignoring the will of the majority of Cubans,…
(Photo : GettlyImages/ SOPA Images ) Apple company iphone Apple announced the financial results for the second quarter of 2021. The company posted the revenue of $89.6 billion, which is up 54% from its 2019 sales. Meanwhile, the international sales accounted for 67% of the company’s quarter revenue. Apple’s Impressive Sales Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said that the Q2 of 2021 reflects the demand of the products despite the pandemic that affected people around the world. Apple is in a period of innovation across its product lineup, and Cook stated that the tech giant is keeping focus on how it…