Take a look at the latest Amazon Alexa and Samsung SmartThings enabled smart home solutions

We recently went on a walkthrough at Amazon's pop-up smart home and saw a variety of applied smart home solutions. Among the stand out products that caught my eye include the August smart locks that can be unlocked remotely with an app or through your voice. 

We also saw the impressive iRobot Roomba i7+ (which we will review soon), this smart robot vacuum can be controlled by voice as well and even empties its own filter on to its charging station. Samsung showed off various sensors, it's high-tech refrigirator with a display, it's Frame TV and other sensors. Check out the video above to see some of the demos.

How Google Assistant can help you navigate Black Friday

There are various ways that Google and its Google Assistant enabled products can help and assist you this Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend. The smart assistant can be used to search, track purchases as well as kick off the spirit of the season. Check out some tips below.

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5 ways tech can help you relax and unwind

Does it feel like the stresses in your life are growing and growing? Do you find the pressures of life too much to bear from time to time? You might feel that technology is adding to your stress and there are days when you find it all too much of an annoyance.

There are many different ways to relax and unwind, many of which tend not to involve too many gadgets, but if you can’t do without your daily dose of tech, there are some great ways you can use it to help you wind down after a long day. 

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Microsoft pulls some updates for Office because it crashes the apps

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Microsoft’s update woes are far from over it seems. This time around, the company had to pull a couple of updates for Office 2010 suite—specifically KB2863821 and KB4461522, which were released on November 6 and November 20, respectively. Microsoft pulled the update and is asking people who’ve installed it to remove it from their systems saying users “may experience crashes in Microsoft Access or other applications.”

The other update KB4461529, which was released on November 13, is also causing crashes for Outlook but Microsoft decided against pulling this update because it also included security updates that help stop Office users’ from being attacked. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue though and is reportedly telling affected users to access Outlook from the web instead of using the app. Now, here’s to hoping this gets fixed soon.

Source: Tom’s Hardware