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'She's A Very Smart Cat': Missing Pet Returns To NY Home, Rings Doorbell 'She's A Very Smart Cat': Missing Pet Returns To NY Home, Rings Doorbell
'She's A Very Smart Cat': Missing Pet Returns To NY Home, Rings Doorbell When Long Island resident Stefanie Whitley’s doorbell rang in the middle of the night, she never could’ve expected who she’d find. On Sunday, Aug. 14, about a week after Whitley’s 8-year-old cat Lilly went missing from their home, the friendly feline walked right up to the Mastic Beach residence and stuck her face in their doorbell security camera. Watch a video of the happy homecoming here, or by clicking on the second image above. Whitley said since her family adopted Lilly, the family has moved about four times. They were at their previous home for about four years, so Lilly knew their …
ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report
ScarJost's Super Bowl Amazon Ad Was Filmed In New Jersey Home: Report If you're not watching for the game, watch Super Bowl LVI for New Jersey. Amazon's Alexa commercial starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost was apparently filmed in Montclair, according to Montclair Local. Is Alexa reading minds a good idea? No. No it is not. Watch now and starting 2/9, vote for your favorite ad on Ad Meter! https://admeter.usatoday.com/amazon To be exact, in a house on Eagle Rock Way, owned by Eleanor Walter up until 2018. “It was fun but jarring to see ScarJo and Colin Jost waking up in my old bedroom, which looks about the same as it did when we lived there,” Wa…
Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring
Amazon Outage Impacting Netflix, Alexa, Ring Amazon's web hosting subsidiary apparently suffered a worldwide outage Tuesday morning. Reports of the Amazon Web Service outage began rolling in around 10:20 a.m., DownDetector.com shows. The outage caused a ripple effect across platforms that rely on AWS such as Alexa, Amazon Music, Netflix and Disney Plus. “Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, which may be impacting your service,” it says. Nearly 28,000 users had reported an outage as of 12:30 p.m. Amazon was apparently investigating.
Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus
Amazon Fresh Replacing Shuttered Fairway Market In Paramus Amazon Fresh will be opening a Paramus location. The online retailer's new brick and mortar supermarket will replace the Fashion Center's Fairway Market on E. Ridgewood Avenue, a company spokesperson told Daily Voice Thursday. Amazon last year announced it would be opening a grocery store at the shuttered Fairway Market in Woodland Park. Amazon opened a pair of its innovative supermarkets last August Woodland Hills and Irvine, CA. The new Paramus and Woodland Park locations will offer similar experiences. The Amazon Dash Cart is a small cart that allows shoppers to skip the checkout line,…
SNEAK PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market SNEAK PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market
Sneak PEEK: Amazon Fresh Store Replacing North Jersey Fairway Market An in-store Alexa, Dash Carts and Order Ahead are just some of the features of the Amazon Fresh, recently approved for the former site of Fairway Market on Route 46. Amazon opened a pair of the innovative supermarket last August Woodland Hills and Irvine, CA, which opened in August.  The one coming to Woodland Park will be similar to those, NorthJersey.com reports. Here's what you can expect.  The Amazon Dash Cart, for example, allows shoppers to to skip the checkout line, and Alexa features to assist with shopping lists and better navigate the aisles, the Amazon websit…
Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY
Amazon Holding Online Career Fair For 33K New Jobs Centered In Four Cities, Including NY Amazon hopes to dole out 33,000 corporate and tech careers, some to New York state residents, at an online career fair offering 20,000  free career coaching sessions from 1,000 Amazon recruiters.  The company's 2020 Career Day, which will be hosted virtually on Wednesday, Sept. 16., will give attendees the opportunity to learn about jobs available across the country in areas supporting Alexa, operations technology and Prime video.  The event, the company said, is designed for individuals at all levels of education and training, and jobseekers searching for work both within an…
McDonald’s Launching First Voice-Initiated Application Process McDonald’s Launching First Voice-Initiated Application Process
McDonald’s Launching First Voice-Initiated Application Process Want to work at McDonald's? Just ask Alexa or Google Assistant. The company now has a voice-initiated application process. McDonald's on Wednesday, Sept. 25 announced an initiative called Apply Thru whereby potential employees may apply for jobs through Alexa. The app will assist candidates with the first step of McDonald's restaurant job application to help drive talent attraction across the globe. The app will talk through a few basic questions with potential applicants ranging from their name, job area of interest and location, and applicants will receive a short text message shortly th…
Alexa's Listening: Amazon Now Collects More Private Data Than Any Other Company, Report Says Alexa's Listening: Amazon Now Collects More Private Data Than Any Other Company, Report Says
Alexa's Listening: Amazon Now Collects More Private Data Than Any Other Company, Report Says As convenience and accessibility become increasingly prioritized among electronics developers, many are wondering just how much privacy consumers are willing to sacrifice in order to fully reap the benefits of new technology. This is particularly the case with Amazon and its Alexa technology. Experts are coming forward and raising valid concerns about how much personal and private data the company is actually collecting on a day-to-day basis. In fact, NBC News’ Tom Costello says that the e-commerce giant “collects more personalized, private data than any other company on the planet, rivalin…
Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners
Video Of Paterson Boy Using Alexa To Cheat On Homework Doesn't Show His Excellent Manners "Alexa, what's five minus three?" A Paterson 6-year-old was caught asking that math question and more to his new Alexa. His mom Yerelyn Cueva, 24, posted the video of him on Twitter -- which had 8.2 million hits as of Friday morning. Cueva said she was in the living room last week when she overhead her son, Jariel, asking the Alexa Echo some math questions, according to the New York Post. "What you don’t see is after he says, ‘Thank you, Alexa, for helping me with my homework,'" she told the news outlet. "I'm going to have to get rid of Alexa," she said on Instagram.
Facebook Wants You To Allow Its Cameras Into Your  Home Facebook Wants You To Allow Its Cameras Into Your  Home
Facebook Wants You To Allow Its Cameras Into Your Home Big brother may be getting a little bigger. Facebook announced it is launching a new electronic device, titled Portal, which is intended to optimize video calls for users. However, it remains unclear if people are open to the idea of an Internet-connected camera in their homes following several privacy issues with the social media giant. Earlier this year, millions of Facebook users may have had their data accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm that worked on behalf of President Donald Trump’s campaign. Recently, Facebook acknowledged that hackers may have broken through securi…
Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing
Alexa, What's My Local News? Get Daily Voice On Your Flash Briefing Hey Daily Voice readers! There's no reason local news should be left out of your Alexa Flash Briefing, and it doesn't have to be if you download the Daily Voice Flash Briefing from Amazon by clicking here. We need your help to test our new Alexa app and want your feedback. Available since early February, we now invite all our Alexa-enabled readers to give it a try. Let us know how it works, what you don't like about it, and, especially, what you do! "I use it everyday myself to get a quick summary of what's going on in local news as I start my day," said Daily Voice President Ted…