Amazon Alexa app on iOS now has voice control support

It took many, many months (or even a year or two) since Amazon has been able to add voice control support to its Amazon Alexa iOS app. It might have felt like this wasn’t going to happen but it’s finally here. The update will be rolling out to users in the coming days so keep an eye for it. What this brings to users is the ability to ask for help from Alexa. Since it’s not baked in natively, you’ll need to tap a button to interact with it. But once you do that, you can ask Alexa questions, access skills, listen to music, and control smart devices. There will also be a visual component in the app for queries related to weather, sports, movies, and calendar.

Source: TechCrunch

Drake teases upcoming album ‘Scorpion’

The wait for Drake’s upcoming album isn’t that long. Drizzy is dropping Scorpion on Friday, June 29. And the Canadian rapper just shared a new teaser on his Instagram to promote the album. According to Shazam, the clip features Moderat’s “The Mark (Interlude).” If you live in Toronto, you’ve probably seen this Toronto native tease the album on different billboards with cryptic phrases like “IS THERE MORE,” “A SIDE B SIDE” and “DON’T HIT ME WHEN YOU HEAR THIS.” Drake has already released three songs off the record: “I’m Upset,” “Nice for What,” and “Duppy Freestyle.”

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Kevin Feige hints at the reason why certain characters survived ‘Infinity War’

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Nope, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige didn’t release important details about next year’s follow up to Avengers: Infinity War but he did give us something to speculate over. He recently spoke to io9 and shared an interesting tidbit about the Avengers who survived Thanos’ actions at the end of Infinity War. We’ll keep the quote under the cut so for those who don’t want to be spoiled can scroll right through.

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Microsoft offers fix for network troubles with April Windows 10 update

If you’ve installed the April Windows 10 update (1803 version), you might be running into an issue with it. One of the latest complaints surrounds the inability for users to connect all devices on the home network. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix. But for now, the company is offering a workaround that you can try until the patch gets released. You can click under the jump to read the instructions on how to remedy this.

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