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Amazon has officially launched Alexa+ in Australia, bringing its generative AI-powered virtual assistant to local Echo devices. Moving beyond basic voice triggers, setting kitchen timers, and answering surface-level queries, Alexa+ represents a complete overhaul aimed at making smart home interaction far more natural, intuitive, and action-oriented. Powered by Amazon Bedrock and advanced large language models (LLMs), Alexa+ is designed to behave less like a command-line interface and more like a conversational assistant.  * Natural Conversation & Context Tracking: You no longer need to speak in rigid, robotic phrases. Alexa+ can process mid-sentence pauses, stumbles, and multi-step requests without requiring a repeated wake word for every follow-up question.  * Localised Australian Personality: Tailored specifically for Aussie households, the local engineering and linguistics teams trained Alexa+ to understand Aussie slang, idioms (from "arvo" to "snags...

interop unlock Lumia 950/XL

This is the easiest way to interop unlock Lumia 950, 950XL since it can't be done with interop tools 




2. Extract the iutool.7zip

3. Extract the  acer.service.acersystemservice.spkg to "C:\acer"

4. Install the vcreg appx and dependencies in developer mode

5. Connect the Lumia to PC and copy the  NdtkSvc.dll and newndtksvc.dll to the Documents folder in internal storage

6. Open command prompt as administrator and type: 

"cd C:\iutool"
"iutool.exe -v -p C:\acer" the phone should reboot to gears. If not manually reboot

You should see the gears.

8. Go to step 2 in vcreg app and follow the prompts. It will ask to reboot device couple of times

Install interop tools appxbundle from here 

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