Amazon s Sidewalk will soon integrate with Tile trackers.
This newfound support will roll out from June 14.
Amazon also announced additional integration with Level.
Keeping track of your things is about to get easier than ever with a collaboration between Amazon and Tile. From June 14th, Tile trackers will now work with Amazon s Sidewalk, extending the Tile network s coverage to include even Amazon Echo devices.
Last year, Amazon Echos gained support for Sidewalk, adding to the pre-existing Ring support, but this is the first major non-Amazon tracker network to integrate with Tile.
CJ Prober, CEO of Tile, said:
Tile helps millions of people every day find their things, and we re always looking for opportunities to enhance the finding experience for our customers. To that end, working with Amazon to extend our finding network by securely connecting to Amazon Sidewalk devices like Echo smart speakers was an obvious choice. Amazon Sidewalk will strengthen Tile s finding power for
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Quest Pro isn t coming in 2021, but it will feature enhanced performance and new sensors when it eventually debuts.
Facebook is not currently considering a way for kids to make accounts or to officially use VR headsets, despite the growing userbase.
Facebook Horizon is the company s big push for how social networking should look and work in VR, and they re waiting until it feels right to open it up to the public.
The Oculus Quest 2 may have debuted only 6 months ago, but Facebook is already thinking ahead to what the future of VR can look like for a broader Oculus Quest ecosystem. In an interview with
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Microsoft is reportedly halting the development of Windows 10X and won t release it this year.
The OS was meant to make Windows compete better with more affordable Chromebooks.
Microsoft will apparently focus its efforts on the full version of Windows 10.
According to a new report from
Windows Central), Microsoft is putting its Windows 10X platform on hold and will not release it this year. The news comes a year after Microsoft decided to scale down its Chrome OS competitor to work on single-screen devices instead of dual-screen ones.
The report claims that Microsoft has shifted its focus on modernizing Windows 10, which will likely include elements that were meant to arrive with Windows 10X. This may come in the form of the Sun Valley update that s expected for Windows 10 devices later this year.
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YouTube is testing a new listening controls feature that ll make playing music better on its mobile app.
Previously, the app would prompt users to open the dedicated YouTube Music app when streaming music.
It s currently only available to YouTube Premium subscribers.
Google is testing out a new feature for the YouTube app that ll make playing music without switching to YouTube Music more elegant. Currently, it s possible to play both music and videos on the YouTube app. While playing music, the app often prompts users to switch to YouTube Music for a dedicated music experience. Not all users may have warmed up to this context switching, so Google s bringing the metaphorical mountain to those customers who refuse to switch.
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