Hacking into smart homes may be easier than you thought. (Photo: KARE 11) GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – A “Smart Home” is designed to make things easier for people. They’re filled with internet-connected devices that can do a lot of cool stuff, like open the doors or turn up the temperature in the house remotely. And […]
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While Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon), and Google Assistant (well, Google) are still waging battle over which digital voice assistant is the best, the other OEMs are actually thinking of developing their own, instead of just adapting these existing ones to their device. Samsung is reportedly in the final stages of their own product and now
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Amazon An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone is seen mid-flight. Prime Air, a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently being developed by Amazon, could potentially deliver packages by using parachutes and dropping them on customers’ doorsteps or backyards, according to a patent filed by the popular e-commerce company. According to CNN, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
If you own a VIZIO television- it may have been keeping an eye on what you were watching- down to the second. VIZIO agreed to pay $2 million in a settlement, after the FTC and the state of New Jersey accused the company of installing software on 11 million televisions which logged what viewers were
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The expansion of the Internet of Things may hold enormous promise, but it also poses a number of security concerns with ill-thought out regulation, according to R Street Tech Policy Fellow Anne Hobson. In communication with Digital Journal, Hobson encapsulates the risks: “Because of the nature of network effects, internet-of-things devices present a unique problem
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Pexels/WDnet Studio The IDC predicts that the Internet of Things — the connection of physical objects, people and places through computing devices all over the world — will be worth $1.7 trillion by 2020. Gartner projects a swing up to 13.5 billion “connected things” by the same year. As demand and supply rocket upward neck-and-neck, top-speed, highly
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by Todd Haselton | February 16, 2017 As of today, Google Home allows you to shop via voice. The execution is really similar to Amazon Alexa, though you’ll be shopping directly through retailers instead of buying goods from Amazon. It also only supports household basic food items and household goods for now, like soaps, paper towels
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Harriet Green, Global Head of Watson IoT (left) and Ilse Aigner, Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology. Photo by IBM. As the Internet of Things starts to gain interest from consumers, companies are starting to invest more time and resources into it. IBM just announced a new US$200 million global
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Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google’s (GOOG) artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is failing to catch on. A Bloomberg report this morning states that Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, which uses Google’s Android operating system for its phones, is developing its own voice-activated AI assistant. According to the report, Huawei’s AI assistant, which will use local languages in China
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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global Internet of Things devices market is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 4% during the forecast period. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170216005601/en/ This research report titled ‘Global Internet of Things (IoT) Devices