![]() Anything you buy from Amazon is stored online, for redownloading whenever you like. Movies, books and even certain games remember your place as you move from gadget to gadget. The Fires are intended to tap into Amazon’s ecosystem of music, movie, TV and e-book stores - which they do exceedingly smoothly. (Unfortunately, some magazines, like The New Yorker, use their own navigation systems you wind up having to learn different reading systems.) In most magazines, you can zoom in to a layout for more legible type, or double-tap for a vertically scrolling text-only view. Taps usually register on the first try.Īnd reading magazines, which once felt like an arm-wrestling match with intrusion-happy programmers, is now a graceful, effortless experience. The home screen - a scrolling “carousel” of icons representing the most recently viewed videos, books, apps and so on - now moves fluidly, with just the right amount of animated momentum. Most models come with 16 gigabytes of memory - twice what’s on the rival Google Nexus or Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, although the Nook has a memory-card slot for expansion.Īmazon has fixed the problems that plagued the original Kindle Fire’s first-generation software. The battery life is fine - more than eight hours, according to Consumer Reports. ![]() Its stereo speakers (“with Dolby audio”) blast out much better, richer sound than any of its monaural competitors. Now, many tech companies are pulling back from their lavish spending. An Era of Austerity: 2022 was the worst year that the tech industry had experienced on Wall Street since 2008.But the company finds itself struggling not to be left out of the A.I. Meta: The owner of Facebook has long had technology to rival chatbots like ChatGPT.Race Begins: Amid the tech industry’s worst slump in decades, industry leaders - including Microsoft and Google - are predicting an era built on new chatbots and other types of artificial intelligence. Bad Ads: Do the ads you see on social media seem to be getting worse? Here’s why “bargain basement” ads are suddenly everywhere. ![]()
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