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Next month, Amazon’s souped-up voice assistant, Alexa+, will arrive
Amazon unveiled Alexa Plus, a feature that will let users feed their assistant documents, e-mail, study guides and recipes and ask it to learn new information about them. It will also memorise the documents and learn their rules. The feature will be available on Alexa’s Echo Show in late March in the US for customers…
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Favorite pancake recipes from your kitchens are featured in the breakfast special.
Alan Mishell learned the recipe from his grandmother, whose family escaped Poland ahead of the Nazi German invasion. She learnt the recipe from her daughter, who added, “My father stood by the stove making pancakes on Sunday mornings. I didn’t even know what a pancake was.” Alan further explained, “My mother used to make them…when…
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The new Covid-19 versions are poised to drive a winter surge.
Two new variants of coronavirus, called BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, have become dominant in the US and could be fuelling an outbreak, the CDC said on Friday. The two subvariants appeared to help them escape the immunity created by vaccines and past infections, a recipe for reinfections and breakthrough infections, particularly for people who haven’t…
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Pieper Lewis, the teen who killed her rapist, escaped from custody.
Pieper Lewis, a 17-year-old US woman who escaped from a residential corrections facility after she stabbed a man she said raped her and was sentenced to probation, has escaped from the facility, according to Iowa’s Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections. Lewis, who was sentenced to five years of deferred sentence, served an additional 200…