Savannah Guthrie posted an emotional video to her Instagram on Wednesday evening in which she and her two siblings, Annie and Camron, addressed the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother and pleaded with them for proof that she was still alive.
The gap between Siri and Alexa just widened. Amazon just announced that, after a year of testing, it is making its AI-powered voice assistant, Alexa+, available to everyone in the U.S. Alexa+ has a more natural voice and can handle more tasks, like ordering an Uber ride. It’s free for Prime members; $19.95 a month for non-Prime members.
And Seahawks QB Sam Darnold is just days away from Super Bowl 60, and a win would forever put his name in the history books, a place his Grandfather has been for some time now. Darnold’s Granddad is Dick Hammer, and his resume is the stuff of legend: At the age of 34, he was part of a dominant U.S. volleyball win over the Netherlands, which was the first Olympic volleyball match win in world history. He was a firefighter on the Universal Studios lot, found his way in front of the camera and appeared in the first season of the hit 70’s show “Emergency.” Oh, he was also the Marlboro man.
