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  • Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

    Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

    More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its digital assistant by supercharging it with AI and charging you for…


  • Is It Better to Use Nextdoor or Facebook Marketplace?

    Is It Better to Use Nextdoor or Facebook Marketplace?

    If you’re looking for an online version of a yard sale, chances are Facebook Marketplace has been your go-to hub in recent years. But there’s some growing competition on the block: Nextdoor. Both platforms are popular, localised alternatives to marketplaces like Craigslist or eBay, which have a wider reach but are notoriously, well, sketchy. If…


  • How to Turn on Ring’s New End-to-End Encryption

    How to Turn on Ring’s New End-to-End Encryption

    Ring just added end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to a select number of its smarthome cameras, protecting videos recorded by your Ring devices with an extra layer of security. This still doesn’t make us thrilled about Ring devices, exactly, given all the issues the platform has experienced, but it’s a feature worth knowing about if you’re already using a…