Staff report Amazon’s entry into the competition for your living room has a new skill. Now the Echo device can read your local news to you, in addition to adjusting the lights, checking weather and playing music. GateHouse Media, the owner of the Herald-Tribune, has joined with Amazon to add the skill to Amazon’s Echo, Echo […]
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Google Home is currently the only contender that’s able to do battle with the Amazon Echo. After living with one for about a month, I’ve found Google’s search capabilities give it some key advantages over Alexa. However, when it comes to the home digital assistant game that’s only part of the equation. In order for
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CNEThas devised a feature that matches consumers with smart home devices and a connected home platform. The Smart Home Matrix feature matches over 100 different smart devices, including lighting, thermostats and locks, with connected home platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomeKit. Consumers can use the tool to check which smart lock is
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ENLARGE The slingshot Caroline Dohack bought for her husband wrapped beneath their tree. Photo: Caroline Dohack By Laura Stevens Laura Stevens The Wall Street Journal CANCEL Biography @laurastevenswsj laurastevens11 Google+ [email protected] Dec. 23, 2016 10:42 a.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Caroline Dohack found the perfect surprise Christmas gift for her husband on Amazon’s website this year:
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[embedded content]I first met Vesper CEO Matt Crowley around this time last year. Crowley said his startup had developed a prototype of a piezoelectric MEMS microphone that, he told me, was going to revolutionize the way mobile devices hear. Eventually, he said, every smart phone would have eight or more of these little microphones on
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IoT broadens attack surface of smart cities By Karen Epper Hoffman Dec 23, 2016 Cybersecurity attacks are scary enough, but what happens when they start coming from unexpected sources to attack the underlying infrastructure of cities? It may sound like the plot of a Philip K. Dick novel, but headlines in recent months have decried
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from the teledildonics dept The internet of really broken things is raising no limit of privacy questions. As in, companies are hoovering up personal data on smart-device usage, often transmitting it (unencrypted) to the cloud, then failing to really inform or empower consumers as to how that data is being used and shared. Though this
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One of the best things about the CNET Smart Home is that it gives us a controlled environment for testing out some pretty comprehensive connected home setups. We’ve already taken deep dives with whole-home services like AT&T Digital Life and decked out our living room with the fanciest smart ceiling fans we could find. Now,
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Image: iStock/g-stockstudio Depending on the connected office, an employee might be able to park their electric vehicle in a designated spot, have biometric scanning of their facial features automatically unlock the building’s door, and sensors within the office recognize that they’ve arrived and log onto their computer as soon as they walk up to their
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