Items tagged with push notifications
Let’s pretend that you just asked Alexa to get an Uber for you. You go and get ready, but have no idea when your ride will arrive. In order to get that information, you have to ask Alexa when your Uber ride will be at your door. Amazon’s upcoming update, however, means that Alexa will now update you without being prompted. Amazon plans to update the Alexa assistant in the Echo and Fire HD 8 tablet to speak certain important notifications without being asked by the user. Amazon is referring to this feature as “push notifications”. It is currently unclear which apps or skills will receive the push notifications. Some have argued that Alexa could potentially become annoying with this newfound funtionality....
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If you're a Firefox user and haven't upgraded to the newest version yet, go grab it. Once you do, you can start to receive push notifications from your favorite websites, a functionality Mozilla added to Firefox 44 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and one that already existed in both Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers. Those of you who aren't interested in push notifications, don't fret, you're not going to be bombarded with messages. Push notifications is a permission-based feature, so you'll only receive them from websites if you give them the green light. "This is similar to Web notifications, except now you can receive notifications for websites even when they’re not loaded in a tab....
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