Amazon Echo vs. Google Home vs. Apple’s Competitor

Two years ago, Amazon quietly released the Echo, a 9-inch tall cylinder speaker controlled by a cloud-based voice assistant that goes by the name Alexa. Thanks to the Amazon Echo’s popularity, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is about to unleash a voice-powered speaker of its own, the Google Home. Next year, Apple could also join the
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Sound Advice: Are Apple’s Free EarPods Really That Bad?

I’ve recently misplaced a pair of decent Klipsch earphones. As I’m partial to using over-ear headphones most of the time, I haven’t managed to justify a replacement yet. As a stop-gap, I’ve been reduced to relying on one of the seven or so pairs of Apple EarPods I have lying around the house whenever I want to
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Google Play Vs. Apple’s App Store, Netflix Starts Blocking Users… [Tech News Digest]

The big difference between Google Play and Apple’s App Store, Netflix blocks the unblockers, Google is trying to serve better ads, get The Witcher 2 for free on Xbox, and the day Darth Vader got attacked by a dog. Google Is Popular, But Apple Makes Money You don’t really get to choose which app store
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