Plug-in pods could solve your WiFi connection issues
If you can’t get WiFi in that one room, there are ways to solve the problem — range extenders and powerline plugs are a couple of solutions that come to mind. There’s also Eero, system that improves your coverage using hubs you install in rooms with poor coverage. A new contender called Plume has a very similar system, except that instead of sitting on a desk, the “Pods” go into power sockets where needed. After you connect it to into your ISP’s modem, it extends coverage via a mesh-like system the company calls “Adaptive WiFi.”
Each pod has an ethernet port, in case you want to jack in (the Eero has two), but it’s really designed for wireless use. The mesh system constantly calculates where you are and adjusts the signal to maximize connection speeds, which the company claims are the fastest on the market. It also uses cloud computing to improve its performance. “Plume is a self-learning system that gets better and better over time,” CEO Fahri Diner said on the company’s blog.
The company is now taking pre-orders for $39 a pod, promising shipping in fall 2016, after which time it’ll cost $49. You’d be taking a flyer on a product that hasn’t hit market yet, though Diner says the company has been testing it in “thousands of homes” with an internet service provider. The price is a lot cheaper than Eero, which costs $200 per unit (or around $167 each if you buy three), but at least we know the latter solution works very well. Plume says it’ll be faster for a quarter of the price, so hopefully we’ll be able to test those claims for ourselves.
Via: The Verge
Newly discovered asteroid is Earth’s cosmic buddy
Earlier this year, the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy and NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office spotted a new companion that follows the Earth on its yearly journey around the sun. According to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid lovingly named “2016 HO3” is “too distant to be considered a true satellite, but it is the best and most stable example to date of a near-Earth companion, or ‘quasi-satellite.’”
Unlike other quasi-satellites that have entered Earth’s orbit, NASA calculates this one has been tagging along on our journey around the sun for “almost a century,” and is expected to follow us around for centuries more before the forces of physics finally cause it to drift away from Earth. Until then, NASA explains, “this small asteroid is caught in a game of leap frog with Earth that will last for hundreds of years.” Observe, the cosmic spirograph:
Earth’s newly discovered little asteroid companion is only about 120 to 300 feet in diameter and it sometimes drifts a little further away from us, but the planet’s gravity is strong enough to pull it back in. This shrinking and expanding orbit keeps 2016 HO3 moving between about 9 million miles from Earth to about 23.4 million miles from earth. (Or about 38 to 100 times the distance of the moon.) Luckily, NASA says there is no danger the asteroid could slam into the Earth, so there’s no need to prep the nukes just yet. “In effect,” said NASA’s Near-Earth Object Studies manager Paul Chodas, “this small asteroid is caught in a little dance with Earth.”
The first 30 minutes of Telltale’s ‘Batman’ are sexy and gritty
Telltale’s Batman opens with a bang. A security guard sits quietly in the entryway of Gotham City Hall, when suddenly, bam — he gets a shotgun blast to the head. A team of criminals in full-body armor and masks walk past his body, murmuring about whether Batman will show up. He will, of course, as will Lieutenant Gordon, Selina Kyle as Catwoman, reporter Vicki Vale, politician Harvey Dent and Gotham crime lord Carmine Falcone. Note that Gordon isn’t Commissioner yet and Harvey Dent still has his whole face.
Telltale’s version of Batman begins just a few years into Bruce Wayne’s vigilante career and it reboots his entire storyline, according to Telltale maketing head Richard Iggo. DC Comics is allowing Telltale to craft its own, unique story in the Batman universe. The companies have a previous relationship; Telltale transformed DC’s Fables into video game form with The Wolf Among Us in 2013.
Batman’s characters and some of its situations will be familiar to franchise fans, but Telltale promises plenty of surprises.
“At the outset we made it very clear we’d love to do a new story about Batman and that’s what they’re letting us do,” Iggo says. “Our plan and our goal and what we are going to do is turn things completely on their head for you, as the player, and also for Bruce Wayne. There’s going to be things which are very, very different to the established canon.”
Telltale’s Batman is rated M and it’s going to get gritty. The story and gameplay focuses on the two masks that Bruce Wayne wears — the bat-suit and the fancy tuxedoes he dons as the billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. This is classic Telltale fare: The action sequences are rapid-fire quick-time events and there are a smorgasbord of dialogue options that lead to different narrative outcomes and relationships. Players are able to choose how Bruce Wayne acts and responds to certain people, lending him varying degrees of emotional depth.
In the game’s first 30 minutes, Batman banters with Catwoman in an exchange dripping with believable sexual tension, even as they leap around the roof of a skyscraper and attempt to take down one another. The setting swaps to Bruce leaning against the mantlepiece in his bedroom at Wayne manor, injured and speaking with Alfred as he gets stitched up. Telltale’s Bruce is introspective and dead-set on defending Gotham, regardless of personal injury.
Bruce eventually dons a tuxedo and his bedroom doors open onto a fancy, lively party already taking place in his ballroom. It’s a fundraiser for Harvey Dent, who’s running for mayor of Gotham. The two have a friendly relationship that plays out in player-chosen responses, allowing Bruce to appear colder or warmer to Harvey in subtle ways. Their history is clear and the characters feel settled into their personalities right from the get-go. That’s probably a perk of working with a franchise that’s more than 75 years old.
“We’re definitely delving into the dark psychology of what it means to be Bruce Wayne, so that M rating allows us to do that with really no holds barred,” Iggo says. “The freedom that have is that we’ve been given characters that you might think of as an ally, who may turn into a villain. One of the questions that’s continually asked of Batman or Bruce Wayne is, is he actually responsible for creating the villains around him? That’s definitely something that we’re going to explore. And of course that will come from your choice as a player.”
Batman looks great, too. Telltale has updated its engine for this one and The Walking Dead Season 3, adding cloth and physics simulations, new lighting and optimization across the board, Iggo says. Though Telltale has carte blanche to play with Batman in new ways, he isn’t going to be a complete departure from the Bruce fans know and love (to hate, at times). Part of the game will focus on Batman — and Bruce Wayne — as “the world’s greatest detective,” Iggo says. Part of it will feature Batman as a skilled fighter. He isn’t a killer, though.
“He’s obviously very violent in what he does,” Iggo says. “He’s kind of ruthless as far as it needs to be. I don’t think we’re intending for him to be a murderer.”
The first episode of Telltale’s Batman series lands sometime this summer and all five episodes are set to launch before the end of the year.
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Microsoft’s new acquisition can enhance Cortana’s chat bots
Looks like Microsoft has been on a shopping spree. Hot on the heels of its massive LinkedIn purchase, the company announced that it’s acquired three-year-old messaging-app maker Wand Labs.
In a statement, Microsoft said that the acquisition would “accelerate [its] vision and strategy for Conversation as a Platform.” Unveiled at the company’s Build 2016 conference in March, Conversation embeds AI bots into Cortana to let users access third-party services within a chat.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because Google and Facebook have since also announced similar plans to integrate chatbots into their messaging apps. Facebook Messenger, for instance, already has bots that let you send flowers, get breaking news and go shopping without leaving the app.
Wand Labs would boost Microsoft’s ability to offer more in this space, given the former’s experience with “third-party developer integration and conversational interfaces,” according to Microsoft. Wand has shut down its messaging app, but screenshots on its website show its ability to pull up third-party services such as Yelp and YouTube from its keyboard.
With the Wand application, you could even share access to apps such as Nest’s smart thermostat app so the friends you’re chatting with can change the temperature for themselves. That’s a feature that Facebook and Google Allo don’t appear to have yet.
Just like the LinkedIn buy, this acquisition looks to be a natural fit for Microsoft and could even help it get a lead in the chatbot space. Microsoft may even get ahead of the competition for a change.
Via: Recode
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Church’s wants to soundtrack your chicken dinner
When you think of eating fried chicken, you probably consider tasty side dishes, a cold beverage and lots of napkins. One chicken chain, Church’s, wants you to also have music as part of the dining habit. The fast-food establishment teamed up with PlayNetwork on a “branded music experience” in order to “foster community among guests.”
The tunes are piped into Church’s mobile app, so you don’t have to be in one of the restaurant’s locations in order to listen. The company says that music is core to its brand, so the move is a natural progression. It also hopes to add multiple channels or stations in the future to showcase the diversity in the communities where it’s doing business.
Source: PlayNetwork (Business Wire)
Wirecutter’s best deals: Save $75 on a Huawei Watch
This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer’s guide to the best technology. Read their continuously updated list of deals at TheWirecutter.com.
You may have already seen Engadget posting reviews from our friends at The Wirecutter. Now, from time to time, we’ll also be publishing their recommended deals on some of their top picks. Read on, and strike while the iron is hot — some of these sales could expire mighty soon.
OXO On 9 Cup Coffee Maker
Street Price: $200 MSRP: $200 Deal Price: $150
The first time we’ve seen this coffee maker hit this price, $10 below the previous low. If you’d prefer a larger unit, our larger upgrade pick has also hit a new low at $225.
The OXO On 9 Cup Coffee Maker is our pick for the best coffee maker. Cale Guthrie Weissman said, “In the past, you had to choose between a coffee maker that makes good coffee, or one that has all the features you might want. The OXO On 9-Cup Coffee Maker is the first machine that successfully combines the best of both worlds. Simply put, the OXO On makes it easy to brew a really good cup of coffee. If you grind your beans to the correct particle size (which is extremely important) and weigh the grounds so they extract just enough, the OXO will take the reins from there. Operation is very simple—just spin a dial to indicate the number of cups and press the button. Once that’s done, all you have to do is wait about 6 minutes and the coffee will be ready.”
In regards to taste, “There are two important factors that make for a well-built automatic drip machine: how well it heats water and how it transports the water from the basin to the beans. On both counts, the OXO does very well. In our tests, the hot water measured 195 degrees Fahrenheit. This is slightly cooler than the acceptable SCAA range (which is between 197 and 204), but it’s possible that our testing may have cooled it by a degree or two when we opened the lid to take the temperature. OXO’s showerhead also evenly distributes the water atop the grounds to ensure that every particle is being extracted as evenly as possible. These two factors contribute to a better tasting cup of coffee. Our panel noted that the OXO’s coffee tasted “well-balanced,” with a nice “sweetness” to it that the others didn’t have.”
Refurbished ARRIS SURFBoard SB6141 Cable Modem
Street Price: $55 (new); MSRP: $100 (new); Deal Price: $40
We’ve seen this deal a couple of times and if history holds steady, that means another small drop in price could happen in the next couple of months. However, since you save money each month by owning a cable modem vs renting, you’ll have to consider whether it’s worth saving a few bucks for a potential drop to $35 vs the rental fee you’ll be paying those months.
The SB6141 is the top pick in our guide on the best cable modem. David Murphy writes, “This cable modem is the only one that supports most of the fastest Internet packages from 7 out of 8 major ISPs. It’s reliable and popular, and it pays for itself in the first year or so.”
Huawei Smartwatch
Street Price: $325; MSRP: $350; Deal Price: $250
This matches a recent sale, though that one went out of stock quickly and changed to a shipping in 1-2 months status. This is only the second time we’ve seen this price.
The Huawei Watch is the upscale pick in our guide on the best smartwatch for Android phones. Kevin Purdy wrote, “Its design, heft, and one-piece body make this a more traditional “men’s watch.” Its AMOLED display is also sharper in the always-on ambient mode.”
UE Boom 2 Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
Street Price: $200; MSRP: $200; Deal Price: $150
While this tends to bounce between $180-$200, the last $150 deal was around for almost a month. Once it expired, the prices shot back up to the usual $200 and we haven’t seen a decent sale since. This deal is currently available on the cherrybomb, green machine, and tropical models.
The UE Boom 2 is the portable Bluetooth speaker pick in our guide on the best gifts for urbanites. The Wirecutter staff wrote, “One of our favorite rugged Bluetooth speakers, Logitech’s UE Boom 2, is a fantastic portable unit that’s small enough to toss into a bag for a day out but capable of producing enough sound to fill a small apartment. The Boom 2 is the successor to our previous top pick, the original UE Boom, but it sounds a bit better, plays a little louder, has a fully waterproof design, offers greater Bluetooth range (up to 100 feet), and, according to the company, can withstand drops as far as 5 feet onto hard surfaces.”
Deals change all the time, and some of these may have expired. To see an updated list of current deals, please go to The Wirecutter.com.
‘Here They Lie’ made a nightmare feel safe on PlayStation VR
The advantage that horror video games have over movies is that you’re an active participant in what’s happening; you make what happens onscreen that much scarier. But playing these games in virtual reality instead of a 2D screen is a different proposition: The display is on your face, and in the case of PlayStation VR, costs $400. Ripping the headset off and reflexively throwing it to the ground out of fright is going to be a very expensive mistake. That’s why the team at Tangentlemen is taking a different approach for Here They Lie, a psychological thriller drawing from directors Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam, and films like It Follows and Jacob’s Ladder for inspiration.
In the PlayStation-exclusive Here They Lie, everything moves at a very deliberate pace. From the creepy, masked humanoid creature that shadowed me, to the speed I moved through a subway station and how the hammerhead sharks swam through the air (yeah, the game gets weird), everything moved at a leisurely gait. Unlike Resident Evil VII, which occupied the demo station immediately next to it and gave two of my coworkers severe motion sickness, Here They Lie feels like a native VR game even though it’ll also be playable without a headset.
Art director Rich Smith said that the main difference between a VR game and a traditional one is that the camera can be doing anything. That means developers have to employ periphery elements like spatial audio and lighting design to ensure the player sees exactly what they’re intended to. Then they combine it with the medium’s inherent sense of immersion to amp up the creepy factor. “That’s the way you structure a horror experience that still feels like you have agency, and that you can go anywhere and see anything,” Smith said.
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During my brief demo, a subway station went from dingy and dirty to me wading through an ankle-deep pool of blood toward a door. That immediately drew the infamous tide of blood erupting from the elevators in The Shining to mind. As soon as I reached the door, it shifted ahead, forcing me to reluctantly keep trudging forward. The next time I reached for the doorknob, it shifted again. Earlier, before the blood took over, I found myself walking backward down a flight of stairs to keep an eye on the vaguely human creature following me before it disappeared just out of sight.
“It’s surreal, psychological, existential horror,” Smith commented.
A feeling of present danger pervades everything, and yet nothing was an imminent threat. When the demo ended with the game’s twisted, fiery “big bad” enemy grabbing hold of me, I was extremely unsettled, but not scared. He didn’t jump out of a dark corner; crouching under the low ceiling, he slowly stalked toward me on an unnaturally long pair of legs and I was helpless to stop him. I felt like I was playing through a nightmare.
That comes from the team’s cinematic inspirations. “There’s a kind of dread involved in [It Follows] that’s different than slasher horror,” Smith said. “We’re definitely looking more at the kind of Kubrick vein of horror. What he did in [The Shining] is about building a mood and setting a tone. And when you do hit [players] hard with a scare, it has a little bit more weight.”
What Here They Lie does so well is it builds an atmosphere and feelings of unease by taking recognizable bits from our world (like the hammerhead sharks) and twisting them in ways that don’t add up (like them swimming above my head in a subway tunnel). It creates an overall sense of uncertainty and fear in indirect ways rather than lazily signposting the emotions with piles of rotting bodies or a few jump scares.
Smith said this is a strong, direct inspiration from the 1990 cult movie Jacob’s Ladder.
In that film, Vietnam War veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) sees all manner of horrific imagery like someone asleep on a train who quickly curls a bloody tail into their trench-coat and a nurse with a set of ghastly, diminutive horns under her uniform hat. During Singer’s time in the war, the government administered a drug that made soldiers hyper-violent and more effective killers. The side effects aren’t pleasant at all.
“You really don’t know what [Jacob’s] deal is. Is it all a hallucination? Is he in hell? Even all the way to the end of the movie, it’s intentionally ambiguous,” Smith said. “That’s what we’re grabbing at as well: The kind of ambiguity where parts of the game are recognizable, where you can see figures and locations you recognize from real life, but they’re not quite right and they don’t stitch together the way you want them to.”
As for why you’re enduring these horrors, Smith was intentionally vague about the game’s overarching story. You’re chasing after a woman in a yellow jacket and you’ll have to rely on other characters to fill in the blanks for you, but that’s about all Smith revealed. How you learn about the protagonist is from other characters, who know more about you than you know yourself. “You’re thrown into this space where, almost [Terry] Gilliam-style, you don’t know where your stance is in relation to the world you’re in,” he revealed.
There are morally ambiguous choices to make regarding these characters, and by story’s end you’re complicit in how the narrative plays out. “The game persistently asks questions, and in the end, it asks the player a particular question based on their experience throughout. That decision is pivotal to the experience.”
Of all the games launching with PlayStation VR this October 13th, Here They Lie looks like the one that’ll take advantage both of the format and the Halloween season.
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Apple Drops Free AppleCare, Lowers Discount on Macs for U.K. Students
Along with expanding its free Beats promotion to Europe, Apple has quietly changed its education incentives for students in the United Kingdom.
As of this week, Apple’s online higher education store in the U.K. now offers up to 10 percent off Macs and other qualifying purchases, whereas the discount was previously up to 15 percent off. The base model 13-inch MacBook Pro now costs £898.80 for students and £999 otherwise, amounting to roughly 10 percent off.
Apple also no longer includes three years of complimentary AppleCare with Macs, with one year of phone support, and instead offers students 50 percent off the protection plan. AppleCare for the MacBook, MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro, for example, is now £99.63 for students and £199 otherwise.
The changes mean that a student purchasing a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with AppleCare, for example, will now be required to pay £150 or more extra. The free Beats Solo2 Wireless On-Ear Headphones included with a qualifying Mac purchase retail for £269.95, so the difference amounts to around £100 to £120.
Apple’s higher education store in the U.K. is now closer in line with the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere, where Apple has offered students up to 10 percent off with no AppleCare included for several years. It remains unclear if the changes are permanent, or only for the duration of the free Beats promotion in Europe.
Update: To clarify, Apple only offered three years of complimentary AppleCare for Mac purchases made through its online higher education store in the U.K. Physical retail stores only offered AppleCare at a discount of up to 75 percent off.
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Apple Explains Why iMessage Hasn’t Expanded to Android
In a wide-ranging commentary piece about WWDC 2016, tech journalist Walt Mossberg included an interesting bit about why Apple has not expanded iMessage to competing software platforms like Android.
When I asked a senior Apple executive why iMessage wasn’t being expanded to other platforms, he gave two answers. First, he said, Apple considers its own user base of 1 billion active devices to provide a large enough data set for any possible AI learning the company is working on. And, second, having a superior messaging platform that only worked on Apple devices would help sales of those devices — the company’s classic (and successful) rationale for years.
Last week, a questionable rumor surfaced claiming that Apple planned to announce iMessage for Android at WWDC 2016, but the keynote passed without any mention. Apple’s executive team evidently views iMessage as a big enough selling point to keep it exclusive to Apple devices like the iPhone and Mac for now, despite Android having over 1.4 billion active users worldwide as of September 2015.
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11 new Siri tricks for iOS 10 – CNET
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Siri will be a lot more useful in the next version of iOS.
The iPhone voice assistant will work with and control many non-Apple apps, get improved voice search and will even be baked into your MacBook or iMac. Siri will also have more predictive features, so you get the info you need without having to ask for it first.
Here are all the ways you can talk to Siri in iOS 10. If you haven’t already, sign up for the beta that comes out in July to start using these features before the official launch.
Send cash to friends
Currently, the list of third-party apps that you can control through Siri is short, such as Twitter or Facebook. However, Apple is opening up Siri to third-party developers, meaning you might have access to Spotify or Evernote through Siri.
A nice example of how this could be very helpful is sending cash to someone using the Square Cash app. It would go something like this: “Hey Siri, pay Sharon 10 dollars with Square Cash.”
This is a much faster and easier exchange than thumbing through the Square Cash app, selecting the person to send the money to and setting the dollar amount. And the same is true of any other Siri integration — the idea is to keep you out of apps as much as possible.
Order an Uber or pizza
You’ll also be able to call for an Uber or Lyft without ever needing to go into the app. Just queue up Siri and say, “Order a Lyft” or “Order me an Uber.” This applies to any company that adds support for Siri, such as Dominos. You could say, “Order me a pizza from Dominos.”
Send messages with third-party apps
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At the moment, you can only send a message through Siri using the native Messages or Mail apps. However, with third-party support coming to Siri, you will be able to send messages to your friends and family using any application that adds Siri support. For example, you might say:
- “Tell Melissa I’ll be there in 5 minutes with WhatsApp.”
- “Send a WeChat to John saying ‘Are we still on for tomorrow?’”
- “Let John know I’m running a few minutes late in Skype.”
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The intelligence of Siri will also be available from your keyboard in iOS 10. What that means is Siri will parse your conversations in Messages to offer up contextual input when, say, you go to enter a calendar entry. Or if the person you are talking to asks for someone’s email address, Siri might automatically suggest it so you don’t have to go look it up.
This means the way you interact with Siri is getting a little more hands-off. It’s working in the background, and you don’t need to physically queue up the voice assistant to get suggestions.
Search YouTube on Apple TV
Siri is pretty great on Apple TV. It makes navigating and jumping to what you want quicker and easier than navigating with the trackpad on the included Apple TV remote. However, if you want to search something like YouTube, you have to open the YouTube app, scroll over to the Search tab, and press and hold the Siri button to dictate.
With the next update to Apple TV (later this month, according to Apple), you will be able to search YouTube from anywhere Siri is available. Just hold the Siri button and say, “Search YouTube for cat videos” or “Search CNET on YouTube.”
The best part is that you will also be able to do this from your iPhone. Siri support is coming to the iOS Remote application this fall.
Jump to live television
There are many applications on Apple TV that allow you to watch live television, like CBS, FXNow, Discovery GO, and so on. And like with YouTube search on Apple TV, you have to open each individual application and locate the option to launch live TV.
After the update, however, you can simply say, “Watch ESPN” or “Watch CBS” to jump straight to the live feed of a channel.
Search for movies about specific topics
Siri also cannot search for certain types of movies currently. You can search for a genre, actor, title, director or decade, etc. That said, if you want a movie or show about something specific, such as baseball or hiking, Siri can’t help.
After the update, you will be able to get more specific with your searches by saying, “Show me movies about technology” or “Find high school comedies from the ’80s.”
Siri on your Mac
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Siri is also coming to the Mac. It will live in the menu bar, and you will be able to call upon it for any of the normal tasks you’re used to, such as movie times, messaging and calling people, setting reminders or toggling settings like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
All of the newer Siri features will be available to you, as well. And you will be able to search for files using Siri. For example, you will be able to say, “Show me that spreadsheet I was working on last night” or “Find photos I took last week.”
Easy multitasking
On the Mac, at least, Siri is set up to be a productivity machine. If you need to search for a specific document, you can. But you can also drag and drop items from Siri search results into documents you’re working on, or pin certain results in Notification Center for future reference.
Again, these updates are less about queuing up Siri in the moment, and more about making Siri more useful in more places, and Siri on the Mac makes a ton of sense. What isn’t clear at this time is whether Siri will have a hotkey or button combination. It’s very likely, but still an unknown.
Control your home from new devices
With HomeKit, Apple added the ability to control any compatible smart home devices using Siri. However, these commands are currently limited to iPads, iPhones, iPods and Apple Watches. The Apple TV can work as a remote hub for HomeKit, so you can control your compatible smart home devices from virtually anywhere using Siri. But if you tried to issue the same commands to Siri on your fourth-generation Apple TV, you would be met with a response that reads, “Sorry, I can’t help you with HomeKit here.”
Apple is taking the steps to unify the Siri experience across all its devices. With the next round of updates, you will be able to control all of your HomeKit devices from Siri on the Apple TV and Mac.
Just say, “Turn on the lights” or “Lock the front door” from any of your Siri-enabled Apple devices.
Change the station and turn on AC in the car
Siri for CarPlay is arguably the most useful implementation of the voice assistant. From your car, you can currently queue up Siri with a button on the steering wheel and issue commands to it just as you would from your phone or Mac. You can ask for directions to a location, send a message to your friend or even create reminders and calendar entries.
However, with the coming updates, CarPlay will receive all the same Siri updates as the other devices. What that means is third-party support, putting some of the control of CarPlay into the hands of the car manufacturers. In other words, you will be able adjust climate control and tune the radio with your voice, among other things, such as playing music with Spotify or sending a message through WhatsApp.
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