• Amazon is turning Echo and Ring into transmitters on June 8

    PUBLIC DEFENDER

    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    You may not have been expecting this, but those nice little Echo speakers you bought to play music — as well as your Ring Cams, Video Doorbell Pros, Level door locks, etc. — will begin talking on June 8 to a gaggle of gadgets that may be up to a mile from your home or office.

    These always-on communications will not use Wi-Fi, although your speakers, security cameras, and so forth probably already connect with your Wi-Fi router. Instead, Amazon has built a new capability into devices that the corporation may have sold to you as long ago as 2018.

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.19.0 (2021-05-24).