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The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

Five new products purpose-built for the home, powered by the latest Alexa, that help make daily life easier.

Alexa intelligently picks the photos worth seeing from Amazon Photos, keeps them current, and makes any moment easy to find, relive, and share.

All-new premium design with the best screen ever on an Echo Show, three new Screen Styles to make it your own, and Fire TV built in.

The Echo speaker lineup gets an upgrade—Echo Dot is more capable than ever with a built-in smart home hub, while a new Echo Studio gains a camera that lets Alexa+ see and help.

The all-new Echo Time is a smart alarm clock with hundreds of customizable clock faces, smart alarms, and a beautiful adaptive display.

A new way to view your home and property, inside and out, with every connected device right where it actually is.

The White Christian Nationalists are not even hiding their murderous and racist intentions any longer.

Right Wing Watch:

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50 may be the new 30 to some people but even a 30-year-old has to know that it’s the height of sleaziness for Tennessee Sen. Brent Taylor to have sent unsolicited, nude photos to multiple women, while he was married. But Taylor, now a MAGA Congressional candidate, was 53 w...

Above, Information Society performs, What's On Your Mind. The election, d'uh.

Feed After Midnight discerns what we can learn from early voting numbers.

Election Law Blog reports that “Massive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the Polls.”

No More Mister Nice Blog tells us about the election-stealing problem that Hair Füror has not solved.

SCOTUS Blog covers the role that The Supreme Court might play in 2026.

Bonus Track: Redshirts Always Die remembers iconic Pavel Chekov actor Walter Koenig.

Fun fact: On this date in 1886, The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first ever confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City!

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With the midterms eight days out, Cliff Schecter talks with Bob Cesca and Joe Walsh to share his read on the map. He expects a big night—“a 50-year storm”—with a couple of Republicans surviving the wave and a Democratic surprise somewhere nobody's watching. He points to Ar...

Because Jeanine Pirro is such a reckless, hubristic dumbass, Margaret Donovan turned the charge against Nikki Floris on its head, into an opportunity to lay out Kash Patel's crimes.

The post How Jeanine Pirro Offered Up Evidence to Indict Kash Patel appeared first on emptywheel.

US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China.

The contentious midterm elections are now less than a week away. Polls show razor-close races that could shift the balance of power in both the House and the Senate. However, […]

The post The midterms haven’t happened yet, but the election conspiracy theories are already here appeared first on Poynter.

This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. […]

The post Fact-checking changed journalism. Then the falsehoods changed, too. appeared first on Poynter.

Advances in AI have opened an entirely new chapter in how we interact with technology. We are moving rapidly from asking questions of digital assistants to handing them the authority to take actions in the real world. This shift brings efficiency and convenience but also introduces a new kind of risk: errors that cost more […]

The annual Portland Fermentation Festival took place last week in Oregon, at a time when sauerkraut, kimchi, and other funky foods are in the social and political spotlight.

Researchers set up a fake start-up company to study fraudulent North Korean IT workers.

We've compiled a list of 17 Hudson Valley communities that will have strict curfews aimed at keeping kids off the streets late on Halloween. Continue reading…

New York State Police are asking for the public's help tracking down a man accused of using a false identity to steal thousands of dollars. Continue reading…