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Have your local news read to you

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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Those Ads That Follow You Around the Internet Are Ruining Christmas

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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What Would You Do With a Waterproof MEMS Microphone? Listen to Whales, of Course

[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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Smart Vibrator Company Settles Lawsuit For Over-Collection Of, Uh, Personal Data

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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The Weekend Reader-Dec. 23

Industry Insider: What’s Happening in IT MeriTalk compiles a weekly roundup of contracts and other industry activity. Stay up to date on everything that’s happening in the Federal Information Technology community. MeriTalk.com keeps you informed about the topics that mean the most to you and creates a targeted platform for cooperation, public-private dialogue, highlighting innovation,

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Coolest smart office tech of 2016

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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