Google Home’s new action helps music fans prepare for Coachella festival
Music festival season is fast approaching, and here to help you get ready is none other than Google Home. The smart home hub has debuted a new Coachella action.
GardenSpace will water your garden and keep away pests with its robotic head
Lack of time is no longer an excuse for not having a garden. It's all thanks to GardenSpace, a 21st century answer to a garden gnome.
Amazon slashes Fire TV prices to undercut Google Chromecast
You can now buy the Amazon Fire TV Stick for $30 (it's normally $40), while you can buy the 4K Fire TV for $50 (down from $70).
Walmart is making it easier to retrieve packages with 500 new Pickup Towers
Walmart is taking on Amazon once again in its quest to become your convenient, budget-friendly retailer of choice. It just added 500 new Pickup Towers.
Postmates delivers on-demand items, and gives you a pickup option, too
Postmates, the on-demand delivery startup, is expanding its offerings, and is giving customers the option to order certain items for pickup.
Snapchat brings back its popular reverse chronological order for Stories
Snapchat is rolling back its redesign and instead showing Snapchat Stories in reverse chronological order once again.
Planet Deepblu wants to help you take the plunge into diving, book a vacation
Meet Planet Deepblu, a new booking platform for divers that calls itself the Airbnb for diving. It could help you book your next vacation.
U.S. Postal Service will take photos of your mail to ensure no letters get lost
Thanks to a program called Informed Delivery, you can now opt to have the USPS email you pictures of the physical mail that is coming your way.
Yes, Facebook is reading the messages you send through Messenger
In an interview with Vox, Mark Zuckerberg noted that Facebook's system is capable of detecting "what's going on" in the Messenger app.
Amazon Home Assistants is a new service that offers house cleaning
Amazon has begun adding house cleaners to their payroll -- not for the sake of cleaning Amazon's offices, but rather to help tidy up your personal space.
Alexa Announcements will help you save your voice by serving as an intercom
If you are the proud owner of an Amazon Echo device, you'll soon be privy to the associated smart assistant's latest parlor trick. It's called Alexa Announcements.
We’ve only just ‘scratched the surface of what’s possible’ with Alexa, exec says
According to an interview with an Alexa executive published in the Amazon blog, his team has only "scratched the surface of what's possible."
Plated plans to take meal kits from your doorstep to the grocery store
Plated co-founder and CEO Josh Hix told Digital Trends, "We’ve thought from day one that meal kits would need to be omni-channel."
Amazon Key smart entry system now available with eight new lock options
Amazon partner Kwikset is making Amazon Key a much more aesthetically pleasing choice by adding three new smart lock offerings to the Amazon Key Home Kit.
The Nest Secure alarm system finally works alongside Google Assistant
Nest Secure is finally catching up to its siblings thanks to a new compatibility with Google Assistant. You can now control your alarm with your voice.
Want solar panels but hate their look? Tesla’s low-profile panels are now working
Tesla's new streamlined solar roof panels have now been installed in customer homes and are fully functional.
Amazon is hiring even more Alexa people than Apple is hiring for Siri
It would appear that Apple is looking to hire tons and tons of bright minds to work on Siri, but Amazon is hiring even more for Alexa.
Grindr admits to sharing user data — including HIV status — with third parties
Not only has Grindr been sharing HIV status, but also its members' "last tested date," GPS data, phone ID, and email.
New sensor system detects gunshots, can automatically lock down a school
When paired with a security system, a new sensor system is able to alert authorities, turn a camera to the scene where shots were heard, set off the alarm, and lock doors.
Alexa correctly predicted that Villanova would be the March Madness winner
Alexa managed to correctly predict that the Villanova Wildcats would come away the winners of March Madness.
LG offers two free Google Home Minis with the purchase a washer set or fridge
Folks who buy an LG InstaView refrigerator or eligible washer and dryer pair featuring LG SmarThinQ technology will receive two free Google Home Minis.
Raise your voice for a good cause and let Amazon’s Alexa do the rest
Amazon has added a new skill for Alexa that will allow you to donate to a number of nonprofits with a simple voice command.
Google could be creating an Assistant-powered smart display of its own
Google's VP Rishi Chandra made a few comments last week that "strongly suggest" that the tech giant would be releasing its very own Echo Show competitor.
