Left to right: The Echo Show 11, Echo Show 8, Echo Studio, and Echo Dot Max.
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Alexa’s survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices

The new Echo Studio (left) and Echo Dot Max (right) speakers. Credit: Amazon Among the new displays is the $180 Echo Show 8. It’s 20 percent more than its predecessor from 2021 ($150). Additionally, Amazon is releasing a new 11-inch smart display, the Echo Show 11. At $220, it’s cheaper than the 10-inch Echo Show...

Can Beauty Devices Bring the Medspa Home?
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Can Beauty Devices Bring the Medspa Home?

In some ways, the beauty device consumer is already asking for too much. They want to experience the latest and greatest cosmetic technologies — LED therapy, microcurrent, electroporation — in the privacy of their own homes. They want them to be safe enough to be foolproof and powerful enough to, perhaps, make their skin look...

Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California, US, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.
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As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day

As many as 2 million Cisco devices are susceptible to an actively exploited zero-day that can remotely crash or execute code on vulnerable systems. Cisco said Wednesday that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20352, was present in all supported versions of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE, the operating system that powers a wide variety of...