A new package of bipartisan bills, introduced by the House of Representatives, would ban the use of cell phones and any electronic device while driving.
Amazon is launching a new skill that includes nonchalantly sharing your internet with your neighbors and you may not even be aware of it.
This tactic isn t as malicious as it may seem, there is a good reason for it. Still, you may be weary.
Starting this week Amazon is launching a new feature (or setting) called Amazon Sidewalk. This skill will be sitting stealthily in your Amazon device s settings. Alexa, Echo, Ring, Amazon s security cameras, and Tile trackers will all have this new feature.
What
Is Amazon Sidewalk?
In short, this is Amazon s attempt at keeping the device in and out of your home functioning even if your wifi disconnects. The idea is to benefit you and your nearby neighbor(s).
So, how well do you know your neighbors? Hopefully, you have a good relationship with them. Maybe once in a while, you can borrow a cup of sugar, or maybe some gas for the lawnmower, but how about sharing your internet with them?
Texans are coming off the long holiday weekend with news that Amazon products they have at home may soon begin sharing an internet connection with the ones in the home next door. Yup, it s called Amazon s Sidewalk Network and if you are thinking you may have some catching up to do on what this actually is, you ll also want to know that you only have about a week left to OPT-OUT of this service if it doesn t sound like something that is right for you. It s being called a wi-fi sharing experiment by sources like this story from slashgear.com.
I think we would all like to forget 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic really screwed up the year s events. The music world shut down concert schedules, Hollywood stopping filming movies and television series, everyone stayed home and buying up all the workout equipment they could find on Amazon and learning how to make sourdough starter and bake bread, and the sports world turned the lights off in all the stadiums and arenas all over the country.
For a while, it looked like we were going to get a Sun Bowl game at the end of the year. Teams were trying to do bubbles with their players and coaches but that didn t work and we didn t have our annual bowl game but this year, that is all changing. Officials with the 2021 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl game announced Thursday afternoon that the 87th annual game is scheduled to kickoff on Friday, December 31 at 10:30 a.m.