The new Fire TV Cube looks exactly like the old Fire TV Cube | Amazon
Amazon is announcing updates to its Fire TV ecosystem today, including a new version of its flagship streaming box, the Fire TV Cube. Although it looks exactly the same, it should operate much more quickly than before. Part of that is the usual bump in processor speed, but a much more important part will be a new feature Amazon is calling “Local Voice Control.”
Local Voice Control allows the Fire TV Cube to interpret some commands without having to ask a more powerful server to help out. That means those commands should work much more quickly since they won’t need to make the round trip from your box to Amazon’s servers and back again. Amazon claims those commands could execute four times as quickly. At launch, supported commands include…