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Amazon’s Alexa Gets Smarter: AI-Powered Alexa+ Launches in Australia

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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...
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Update and root Android 13 DP2 for pixel devices

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Download the developer preview of Android 13 here

The easiest way to update pixel device's is with Android flashtool

make sure only 'force flash' and 'wipe device' is enabled in settings

After flash the firmware you can easily root it with magisk canary

Extract the firmware package 

Inside it will be another zip file, inside that copy the boot.img file and send it to the phone

Open the magisk app and tap install > patch an image 

The output will be in the downloads folder in internal storage. Copy it to PC

Left click it and tap 'copy as path'

Open a terminal in the platform tools folder 

.\adb devices 

Allow USB debugging

.\adb reboot bootloader

.\fastboot devices

You should see the phone connected if you installed the Google USB driver properly 

.\fastboot flash boot <path to magiskboot.img> 

.\fastboot reboot 



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