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

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...

Flash a stock ffu on Windows phone with WPID

Windows phone image designer requires an ffu file from the Lumia firmware website 


Extract the zip file to C:\WPID andput the ffu in C:\

Use the 'start.bat' file to launch image designer

Power off the device and hold power and volume up until you see a lightning bolt

Open windows phone image designer and select :flash' and select the ffu file you downloaded

Tap on 'flash' and wait until it finishes


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