For reasons unknown, Apple has taken upon itself to remove the 'iCloud Activation Lock' from its web site. The web site offered a convenient way to find out if an iOS device was stolen or not.
An Apple support document and a direct link that had information about the page is no longer available. This change could parentally increase the number of people getting stolen iOS devices.
“Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Senator Orrin Hatch Friday, capping off the first full week of a new Washington, with President Donald Trump at the helm,” Hamza Shaban reports for BuzzFeed News.
“Sen. Hatch of Utah, who sits on the Judiciary Committee and the antitrust panel, also leads the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, whose mission is to help keep American tech at the leading edge of global markets,” Shaban reports. “‘During today’s meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, we discussed ways to grow the economy and our tech industry, as well as his recent visit with me in Utah,’ Sen. Hatch said in an statement to BuzzFeed News. ‘Given the issues I work on as chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, it’s especially useful to listen to innovators like Tim.'”
“In the fall, Hatch hosted Cook at a tech conference in Utah, and the two appear to be friendly. Fellow Utah official Sean Reyes, the state’s attorney general, is a leading candidate to chair the Federal Trade Commission, one of two top antitrust posts in the federal government, according to three people with knowledge of Trump’s staffing decisions,” Shaban reports. “Cook also met with leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday to discuss promoting hiring, and other ways the company could help veterans, a person familiar with the meeting told BuzzFeed News.”
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Note: The following is an article about how to add Google.com to the Alexa device. This is a 3rd party skill, and not endorsed by Amazon.com. Use at your own risk.
As a whole, the Amazon Echo is a great device. Both Amazon and 3rd party developers are trying to make Alexa smarter every day. But it does have its limitations. Sure, you can wait until a 3rd party developer comes out with a skill to fill a void, but that may take months of development and testing.
An open source project created a skill that allows an Amazon Echo to be able to access Google.com to try and fill the gaps in knowledge that the Echo currently has. But because this is not an official Amazon skill, an end user has to manually add it to the device. This includes copying and pasting programming code into an Amazon Developer's web site.
If you're one that has been wondering how Alexa skills are made, then this article is for you. It can take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to complete. But (in my opinion) it's worth it.
Let us know how it works for you below.
