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David Gewirtz/ZDNETI just installed the new 5th Generation Echo Dot , which connects to my Nest app. But it doesn't work with Alexa, so I can't query Alexa what the temperature is upstairs. Also: The best smart thermostatsI later brought up one of my little SensorPush trackers. I didn't want to buy and manage yet another hub device, so I never got one. Finally, I brought up a SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor is $49, which is almost what a single one of those standalone sensors cost. Plus, this new Dot…

There's great news for anyone wanting a new TV. One of the best Sky deals around has just got even better thanks to a limited-time offer on the Sky Glass television which throws in access to Sky TV and Netflix entirely free for three months. The money-saving offer means you won't need to pay a single penny to watch hit Netflix shows like The Watcher and Stranger Things, while the free Sky TV promotion will let you tune into exclusive hits like Game of Thrones prequel House of Dragon. This brilliant deal knocks £78 off the…

Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev (Getty Images)The Russian government has set its sights on yet another U.S. tech company: Amazon.This week a Russian court reportedly fined the e-commerce giant 4 million roubles (or $65,000 dollars) in two separate cases for allegedly refusing to remove content related to drug use and suicide, according to Reuters and Russian state media. The fines, a first for Amazon in Russia, represents the latest in an escalation of penalties dished out by the warring country in a trend rights groups warn…

Julia Roberts and George Clooney have shared a heartwarming behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to film the most “ridiculous” part of their new romcom.The pair star as embittered exes who travel to Bali to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake they did 25 years earlier in Ticket to ParadiseDuring a recent appearance on NBC’s Today show, the two actors discussed their on-screen chemistry, which, The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey wrote, “immediately recalls the tempestuous relationship Roberts and…

Image via Marvel Studios This latest Marvel news update finds us sandwiched between two big Marvel news storms — Monday’s surprise debut of the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer and tomorrow’s major new episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which promises to be the one we’ve all been waiting for. Things have been relatively event-free on the MCU front this Wednesday, then. Excepting, that is, some eyebrow-raising comments from a star of the studio’s most recent movie… Christian Bale did not love making…

Say hello to the Dark Obselisk. | Image: Galax If you thought the prices of Nvidia’s new RTX 40-series cards were ridiculous, wait until you see all the third-party RTX 4090 designs. Ridiculous doesn’t even begin to describe the RTX 4090 Serious Gaming (yes, that’s the name) from Galax. Let’s start with the packaging. Exhibit A: Image: Galax Did a hacker make this GPU? Why is there a hacker on the box of this RTX 4090? Is this a member of anonymous? Am I going to lose all…

Toyah Willcox, singer/songwriterI was a cult punk singer playing sweaty little clubs and getting covered in so much gob that dry cleaners would go: “Yeuch! We’re not touching that!” Then a brilliant PR woman called Judy Totton turned everything around. She put me in every parish magazine in the country that would talk to me. I soon had all these fans who said they discovered me because their parents or grandparents had told them about this punk rocker.I was making singles that were eight minutes long with reams of lyrics…

A representative for Chris Pine has denied that Harry Styles spat on the actor after a video of the two went viral on social media.Styles and Pine were at the Venice Film Festival screening of Don’t Worry Darling on Monday (5 September) – with co-stars including lead actor Florence Pugh and director Olivia Wilde – when the moment was captured on video.In the clip, posted by Twitter user JZMaclin, Styles supposedly “appears to spit” on Pine while taking his assigned seat next to the actor, who then looks down at his lap…

Believable?(A screenshot from a United ad.) A screenshot from a United adToo often, companies want their customers to be excited about a product.The promise, so it goes, is that once you buy this thing you'll feel so uncontrollably good all over.The problem for airlines, especially over the last couple of years, is that every promise they've made has been entirely unbelievable. Promises such as the expected arrival time of your flight. Or the expected departure time. Or even the promise that your plane will actually…

A big-budget Netflix spy thriller and an Amazon rom-com coming out July 22 are here for your streaming pleasure while the big, lone theatrical release is the much-anticipated “Nope” from “Get Out’s” Jordan Peele (unfortunately, it screened too late for review). Here’s our roundup. “The Gray Man”: Leave it to the Russo brothers (“Captain America: Winter Soldier,” “Avengers: Endgame”) to go completely bonkers with their star-studded, overblown and spectacularly preposterous $200 million Netflix action extravaganza. Based on…