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Many of us own more than a single smartphone or mobile device these days, and more often than not, the power bank is an essential tool that we bring around in order to make sure that there is always some juice on hand just in case our handset runs out of power in the middle of the day. It is also not amiss to see more and more vehicle owners purchase a charger that plugs into their ride’s 12V socket, and Scosche has upped the ante with their latest Scosche BTFREQ. The Scosche BTFREQ might be a small device, but do not let its looks deceive you since it is mighty in nature with a clever design that packs in a slew of technology solutions which ranges from in-vehicle hands-free communications to entertainment, Power Delivery, and Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, Alexa.

Offering convenience and power, the Scosche BTFREQ dual-port (USB-A 12W/USB-C 18W with Power Delivery) charger will allow you to power up a couple of compatible devices simultaneously, doing so quickly at the same time. In fact, USB-C PD is able to charge up to three times faster compared to a regular charger while providing adaptive charging, where it delivers the fastest safest charge for each individual device. In addition, the BTFREQ also supports Apple and Samsung Fast Charge. With USB-C becoming the globally adopted standard for charging and data transfer, you can be sure that there is a degree of proofing against the future, so you do not have any more need to fret concerning compatibility when it comes to purchasing newer handsets in the months to come.

Offering convenience, safety and value to a vehicle, I would highly recommend this since it can also be a great value added service for ridesharing operators. You can hook up to it while in the vehicle via Bluetooth or an aux-in cable, enabling users to gain access to Amazon’s Alexa. Using Alexa, users are able to ask it to play their favorite tunes, hear the latest happenings on the news, and check out the weather, among others. Since Alexa lives in the cloud, it constantly refines itself to be smarter while adding on new capabilities that are delivered to the device automatically. The BTFREQ will also work with Apple’s Siri and Google Voice when paired to a smartphone.

The Scosche BTFREQ has been carefully designed in order to deliver clearer voice activation with less noise pollution. It boasts of an ingeniously designed satin silver arc in order to accommodate a second microphone at the optimum distance from the first. Made from premium automotive grade ABS plastic, it should not be a problem blending it into most other vehicles. There is no word on pricing just yet, but the Scosche BTFREQ is tipped to arrive this coming fall 2019.

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GameStop, one of the largest retailers of video games and consoles, had announced in June last year that it was looking to sell itself. It was said to be in talks with private equity firms about a potential sale after it received interest of being bought out. It appears that a deal was not reached because GameStop has now announced that it has given up on efforts to secure a sale.

GameStop has also had to put up with increased competition from popular online retailers like Amazon. It also doesn’t help that physical game sales have declined across the board but GameStop hedged that by branching out into selling used video games and consoles aside from other digital products.

The company said today that it has given up on efforts to sell itself after it failed to get a potential deal on terms which would be favorable. Investors didn’t take the news lightly and its shares were down 21 percent in early trading this morning.

GameStop mentions that it also held discussions with other firms but did not get financing on terms which would have been commercially acceptable to a potential buyer. It was never claimed that a deal was done as GameStop had also cautioned in its initial announcement that there was no assurance of an agreement being reached.

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An FBI agent said Stephen Paddock may have killed 58 people in Oct. 2017 to “obtain some form of infamy.”

Over the past few years, mattress company Casper has expanded its product lineup to include everything from dog beds to nap pillows. (It’s also opened its own nap store.) The latest addition: the Glow, an $89 light.

While the company has never made this kind of Internet-connected hardware before, Chief Strategy Officer Neil Parikh pitched the Glow as part of Casper’s mission to improve sleep. And although there’s already whole categories of sleep-friendly light bulbs and smart lamps, the Glow has a couple of smart touches that could make it particularly appealing.

The basic use of the Glow is pretty straightforward. You turn it on by flipping it over, and it fills your room with warm LED light. The light then dims to darkness over a 45-minute period — as Chief Product Officer Jeff Chapin put it, it’s “mimicking the setting of the sun and it helps you get sleepier as it dims into lower and lower amplitudes.”

You can control and customize the Glow with a smartphone app, but Chapin said, “There are some people who are never going to download the app and that’s fine.” That’s because the Glow can also be controlled by gesture — flipping it to turn it on and off again, twisting it (when it’s set on a flat surface) to adjust the brightness and wiggling it to get a low light.

The Glow is also portable, so if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to get a glass of water or use the restroom, you can just pick it up and carry it with you, rather than turning on a bright kitchen light. You can also set a wakeup time so that the Glow gradually lights up again.

“We’ve leveraged the good and the bad of light so that it would help you fall asleep, stay asleep and go back to sleep into the night,” Chapin said.

In fact, if you’re a frequent traveler who struggles with jet lag, you can even “freeze” the settings, pack the Glow in your suitcase and take it with you to your destination, though Chapin admitted, “We don’t know how many people are going to do that.”

In addition to buying a single Glow for $89, you can also get a two-pack for $169. The light comes with a small base for wireless charging.

The Casper team sent me a couple of Glows to try out for myself. I wasn’t able to download the app, but the Glow was indeed largely controllable by gesture. (My only real complaint is that the wiggle-for-dim-light only worked sporadically for me.)

Keep in mind that I didn’t have a particularly sophisticated or sleep-friendly lighting setup before this, and that it’s hard to know how I would have slept on any given night without the Glow. Still, I can say that I found myself getting sleepier as the light dimmed, and I seemed to pass out more quickly and reliably than normal. And since the Glow is pretty small (five inches tall and three inches wide), it was easy to find room for it in my cluttered bedroom, and to carry it around when necessary.

It sounds like Casper has plans for more products that go beyond bedding, addressing broader environmental factors that affect sleep.

“You can expect a lot more from us in the same vein, trying to help people [sleep] across the board, in a multivariate way,” Parikh said. “It’s a very complicated problem.”

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