Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, February 9th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today Amazon is ginning up a new Echo device that's like a dashboard for your household.

Big changes to Android leaked to the internet.

Reddit raises a big round.

Mark Cuban is gunning for clubhouse.

And I've been warning y'all of industrial

hacking we almost had a big disaster down in Tampa Bay here's what you miss

today in the world of tech.

It's Mark Germin Scoop Tuesday, though it's not an Apple scoop today. Sources are telling Germin that Amazon is developing a wall-mounted echo device with a large touch screen

that can serve as a smart home control panel, a video chat device, and a media player all in one.

Quoting Bloomberg.

The company's Lab 126 Hardware Division is designing the device to be a digital

command center showing users upcoming calendar events controlling accessories like

lights and locks and playing music and video. It would include Amazon's

Alexa voice assistant and microphones and a camera for video conferencing said the

people who asked not to be identified discussing private matters.

The product would compete with professionally installed smart home control screens from the likes of

Control 4 Corp as well as Apple's iPads framed into walls and even

Amazon's own Echo Show used with a third-party wall mount.

Amazon is considering multiple variations with screens of either 10 or 13 inches in size.

A 10 inch display would be on par with the current Echo show,

while a 13 inch model would be Amazon's largest device with a display.

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