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Today’s Deal is on the powerful and very popular Amazon Echo.  Today you can pick up the Amazon Alexa powered personal assistant device for $99.99.  That is a savings of $80 off the regular price.  The Echo has thousands of services that you can link to it in order to get news, information and, of course, order things from Amazon.  The Echo is a truly immersive experience for those that leverage Amazon Prime and the associated services like Amazon Music.

Echo is also aimed to give you personalized information such as commute time to work, leverage smart devices in your house like smart lights and garage door openers, get recipes for things to cook or drink.

Good news this morning for those of you who have a Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus on the AT&T network.  A new update is rolling out for both devices that brings Google’s Daydream VR support to both phones.

The update for the Galaxy S8 is G950USQU1AQGL while for the S8 Plus, you will get update G955USQU1AQGL.  These updates not only bring support for the Virtual Reality solution from Google, but also brings the August Android Security update along with several other bug fixes and patches.

Today at 2:40 p.m. Eastern, the Android team will be hosting a live web event to announce the public availability of Android O.  The timing of the event coinsides with the solar eclipse that is happening and, you guessed it, will be at its height at 2:40 p.m. in New York.

The stream of the event will be available on YouTube and there will be a live video stream with the launch stream from NASA showing the eclipse.   You can watch the stream below:

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Yeah, so my opinion is go outside and see the eclipse (with proper eye protection of course).  That’s a rare event and while I’m a big fan of the ‘Droid, I think the timing of this is silly at best and marketing gone array at worst.  My .02.  And to top it off, there isn’t really anything outside of the official name that we don’t already know about Android O anyway at this point.

Today’s Deal is another great offer from the team over at AUKEY.  Today you can pick up their 10000mAh Power Bank for charging your Android, iPhone and other devices for $13.  To get the special pricing, you will need to use the coupon code AUPOWER7 when you check out at Amazon.

The AUKEY Power Bank is a minimalist design with a solid scratch-resistant case.  There are four LEDs on the top of it to let you know how much power is left in the pack.  It sports dual USB-A ports to charge your devices with devices like the Samsung Galaxy S8 or Google Pixel XL getting just over 2 complete charges out of it prior to the pack itself needing recharging.