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Sep 2019
15m 36s

Wed. 09/25 - It's Alexas All The Way Dow...

Brian McCullough
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Amazon’s hardware event gives us more Alexa in just about anything you can think of, Oculus has some news on the VR front, the 2020 iPhones might echo the iPhone 4 design, and those dog like robots from Boston Dynamics are finally leaving the lab, but to adopt one, you need to think through a use case.

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