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5 Clever Alternatives to Voice Assistants in Your Smart Home

Not crazy about talking to Siri, Alexa or Gemini? You can easily create a voice assistant-free smart home with these tricks.

Amazon Echo Dot Max review: Alexa+ gets room to stretch

I spent two months with the Echo Dot Max after many years with the Echo Dot. Here's who should trade up, and who should stand ...
India West

Embassy Launches Program Connecting India Students With US Faculty

WASHINGTON, DC – The Embassy of India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of India and the University Grants Commission, has launched an innovative virtual mentoring series, “MARG: ...
Richmond

Virginia approaches half a million total COVID cases. Almost 50% were in the last two months.

ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/TIMES-DISPATCH People lined up to get COVID-19 tests during a drive-thru event at The Diamond in December. The state needs to increase vaccinations because of the delta variant, ...
Richmond

A new high school in Richmond has students work for their tuition

Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and ...