Amazon Echo Update: You Can Now Add Events To Google Calendar By Voice Via Alexa and other top stories.

• Amazon Echo Update: You Can Now Add Events To Google Calendar By Voice Via Alexa

  

  Amazon Echo just got a lot more capable. Users can now have Alexa add events to Google Calendar through voice command, making things a lot easier for people who stay on top of their schedule.(Photo : Amazon) Amazon Echo gets updated to make things a lot more convenient for everyone in organizing their plans and schedule. Thanks to the developers' hand in the wireless speaker, users can now have Alexa add events to Google Calendar via voice command. To get things started, those who want to take..

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• Sirin Labs blasts into the secure smartphone space with a $72 million seed round

  

  Dennis Mitzner Crunch Network Contributor Dennis Mitzner lives in Tel Aviv and writes about startups and technology trends. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network  Sirin Labs, a new high-end smartphone manufacturer, has raised a $72 million seed round from Singulariteam founder Moshe Hogeg, Kazakh businessman Kenges Rakishev, and the Chinese social networking service Renren to launch a new, secure smartphone. The phone will be revealed in May at Sirin Labs’ flags..

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• 'Ark: Survival Evolved' mods will become part of the main game

  

  Wildcard doesn't say whether or not modders will get compensation for their efforts (we've reached out for details). However, this could still be a welcome move in a game that's defined by its community. After all, mod developers rarely get more official acknowledgment from game studios than the creation of a toolkit -- this exposes their work to a much wider audience. VIDEO

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• Apple's Watch Outpaced the iPhone in First Year

  

  Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device’s debut year. Yet the smartwatch is dogged by a perception that seems premature given the history of Apple’s most popular devices: disappointment. As the Watch marks its first anniversary on Sunday—two days before Apple’s quarterly earnings announcement—the product’s fate is critical to the company. It is Apple’s first all-new product since the iPad and a test of its...

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• watchOS Developers Now Required To Build Apps That Run Natively On Apple Watch

  

  (Photo : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) It's being speculated that the implementation of the new rule is a signal that the tech giant has a big announcement about the Apple Watch in the upcoming WWDC. Apple has announced that developers will be required to build new apps that would be able to run natively on the Apple Watch. "Starting June 1, 2016, all new watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be native apps built with the watchOS 2 SDK," Apple said on its developers page. Apps that run..

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• Newly discovered coral reef at Amazon River mouth already under threat from oil drilling

  

  Scientists have discovered a colorful coral reef ecosystem at the place where it is not supposed to grow - near the mouth of the Amazon River. The newly discovered coral reef is around 3,700 square miles. The discovery mentioned in the journal Science could shed light on how coral reefs might survive in less than ideal conditions. Generally, corals thrive in clear waters along tropical shelves. Amazon like river systems are thought to create gaps where they do not grow therefore it was shocking..

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• Astronaut Completes London Marathon From The International Space Station

  

  Runners make their way across Tower Bridge during the Virgin Money London Marathon on Saturday in London. Ben Hoskins/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ben Hoskins/Getty Images Runners make their way across Tower Bridge during the Virgin Money London Marathon on Saturday in London. Ben Hoskins/Getty Images ..

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• HTC 10 will be released in Australia on May 3

  

  The HTC 10 is the Taiwanese company’s big hope in recovering the momentum it lost with its previous flagships. These phones, especially the HTC One M9, weren’t even evolutionary for a lot of critics – they were more of the same, with no killer features or differentiating factors to speak of. And with HTC having high hopes for its new flagship, the phone appears to be close to getting a release Down Under. Earlier speculation suggested that Australia may be a bit late jumping on into the HTC 10 p..

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• Qualcomm says it's fine to fast-charge your phone over USB-C

  

  Well, not quite. The Qualcomm statement doesn't address whether or not the USB-C phones using QC3.0 really are honoring the port standard. It's notable that Google's own USB-C phones, the Nexus 5X and 6P, don't use Quick Charge precisely because of concerns that it's out of spec. This doesn't mean that companies like HTC or LG are living dangerously by implementing speedy charging tech, but you shouldn't be surprised if they're the exceptions rather than the rule.

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