Julian ChokkattuĮero introduced a new Internet Backup feature too, which lets you configure your Eero network to temporarily fall back on a mobile hotspot if your main internet connection goes down (you can configure up to eight hotspots or alternative Wi-Fi networks as backups).

You can read more about Astro in our broader story here. This SDK is currently in internal testing, and access will initially open up exclusively for students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, and the University of Michigan later this year. There's a software development kit (SDK) in the works for Astro as well-this will allow third-party developers to create more experiences for Astro. Astro can now also recognize when a door or window has been left open, but you'll need to run it through the house and teach it names for your windows and doors so it can accurately alert you when you're away. Astro can send you a clip of what your pet is doing when it detects them, and you can talk to them using Live View. Not bad! Here’s how it measures up to your other top options-especially now that Apple slashed its iCloud pricing this week.Amazon Astro, the cute little robot the company unveiled last year that doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, will be getting an update that makes it able to recognize cats and dogs, and the robot will keep an eye on them when you're away (a certain Love, Death & Robots episode comes to mind). While the company killed off unlimited, it still gives you 1TB for the same $60 per year, with an extra $60 for every terabyte thereafter, up 30 terabytes. The good news? Amazon’s still comparatively cheap. Which is to say, twice as much as Amazon’s offering had been, with a firm cap, instead of all-you-can-cloud. The industry standard, then and now, is roughly $10 per month for 1TB of space. For $60 per year, you could keep as much as you could muster in your own private Amazon cloud locker. Now that the greatest deal in tech has come to an end, it’s worth taking a fresh look at your data-stashing options.Īmazon’s Unlimited Everything plan truly was unprecedented when the company announced it in 2015, and went unmatched ever since. That’s how long, at least, Amazon’s absurdly cheap unlimited cloud storage made it. In fact, some things only last two years, two months, and 14 days.

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