[Update: Indian Pricing] Amazon’s New Echo Dots are Actually Spheres At its fall hardware event today, Amazon has unveiled the latest improvements it has made to its smallest, probably most popular smart speaker — theEcho Dot. The Echo Dot has been redesigned completely, so much so that it’s no longer a dot, it’s a sphere. The new Echo Dot comes in an orb-like design that matches that of the also redesigned Echo speaker, which is also an orb now, albeit bigger....

Amazon Announces a Cloud Gaming Service Called ‘Luna’ It seems every single company has a cloud gaming service these days. Microsoft hasProject xCloud, there’sGoogle Stadia, NvidiaGeForce Now, and probably others I can’t remember right now. Truly, Apple seems to be the only onewithouta cloud gaming service which is why it’s more surprising that it’snot allowing others to existon the App Store, but I digress. Today, Amazon joins that list of companies with its announcement of a cloud gaming service called ‘Luna’....

Amazon Launches New Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick Lite in India; Price Starting at Rs. 2,999 Alongside the newspherical Echo speakersand theflying security camera, Amazon is also updating its trusty TV dongle lineup. The company has upgraded the original Fire TV Stick with a faster processor and improved audio. A new Fire TV Stick Lite has also been added to the lineup to make online content accessible to a wider audience....

Amazon Redesigned the Echo Speaker with a New Spherical Design Alongside the new,spherical Echo Dot, and theLuna cloud gaming service, Amazon also unveiled the new Echo speaker. And yes, it’s also been completely redesigned to look like an orb. However, that’s not the only thing that’s new here. Amazon has fitted the 4th-gen Echo speaker with an all newAZ1 Neural Edge module. This, according to Amazon, will process your voice commands’ audio using local machine learning speech algorithms before it’s sent to the cloud....

Amazon’s Alexa Will Soon Detect Crying Babies, Barking Dogs and More At its Alexa event on Thursday,Amazon unveiled the AZ1 Neural Edge processorthat it said would significantly improve Alexa’s response time and speech-recognition abilities. Built in collaboration with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor major, MediaTek, the chip is built into theEcho smart speaker,Echo DotandEcho Show 10that the company announced last night. It will also be found in more Amazon hardware in the coming days, the company said....

Canon Unveils ‘EOS C70 Cinema Camera’ With Native RF Mount, Compact Form Factor Canonon Thursday announced a slew of new products in Japan, including theEOS C70 ‘Cinema Camera’that supports 4K/120P recordings to offer cinema performance in a relatively small form-factor of a standard DSLR camera. Alongside the camera, the company also unveiled theCJ20eX5B portable zoom lensand theEF-EOS R mount adapter. The EOS C70 camera and the EF-EOS R mount adapter will go on sale in India starting November, but the final pricing is yet to be announced....

Echo Show 10 with Motorized Display Launched at $249.99 Amazon has refreshed its Echo Show lineup with a new smart display dubbed Echo Show 10at its hardware eventalongside the newEcho Dots,Echo speaker, andLuna cloud gaming service. According to Amazon, the new Echo Show 10 features a10-inch adaptive HD displaythat moves. Yeah, the display automatically adjusts itself and moves around so that you’re in the frame, thanks to its motorized base. Moreover, Amazon claims that its brushless motor is completely silent so that you won’t hear noticeable sound when the display rotates....