CHICAGO (CBS) — The latest news from CBS Chicago is just an ask away through Amazon’s Flash Briefings, making it easy to listen to local headlines and stories from your Alexa-enabled devices. By saying “Alexa, tell me the news,” or “what is the news in Chicago?” users can hear what’s happening in the Chicago area …
CHICAGO (CBS) — The latest news from CBS Chicago is just an ask away through Amazon’s Flash Briefings, making it easy to listen to local headlines and stories from your Alexa-enabled devices. By saying “Alexa, tell me the news,” or “what is the news in Chicago?” users can hear what’s happening in the Chicago area …
CTA Chief Economist Shawn DuBravac It should be another good holiday season for television purchasing and gift giving, although the category that once spurred on Black Friday shopping mania with fistfights over door-buster specials, will be somewhat more subdued as more and more holiday shopping dollars gravitate to on-line purchases, and mobile technology products. …
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Ryan Merriman as Ben Cooper and Katey Sagal as virtual assistant Pat in “Smart House,” directed by LeVar Burton. – Courtesy: Disney Channel Season 2 of our tech podcast “Codebreaker” launches Nov. 16, when we ask if technology can save us. To prepare, we’re revisiting Season 1, which asked “Is it evil?” In this post, we talk …
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In a recent announcement, IoT home security startup Canary announced that it has passed rigorous testing to attain the first Internet of Things (IoT) security certification from ICSA Labs, a leading third-party testing and certification body and an independent division of Verizon. Canary’s all-in-one solution will now carry the ICSA Labs IoT mark of approval, …
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Rob Eby, D&H Dealerscope: How did this year’s Fall show [held Nov. 9 in Hershey, Pa.] compare in size, vendor mix and dealer mix with last year’s – was it larger? Are you up or down in attendance for both dealers and vendors? Rob Eby, VP of Purchasing, D&H Distributing: Attendance was up over last …
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By Tiernan Ray Evercore ISI’s Ken Sena today offers up his findings from his firm’s “Machine Learning Symposium” in San Francisco, with implications for Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google, among others, of the revolution in artificial intelligence that’s sweeping computing. One takeaway is just how important it is that Amazon and Google have the hardware power …
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Data center technology innovation, such as virtualization, hyperscale data centers, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), is a key driver of cloud and cloud traffic growth, according to the sixth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index report. The report that forecasts the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic (2015-2020) highlighted some main findings: Cloud …
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Twitter, The New York Times, Spotify, Pinterest, and Etsy were the victims of a cyber-attack two weeks ago. The distributed denial of service (DDOS) Mirai botnet hijacked thousands of DVRs, webcams, and baby monitors to take these websites down – everyday internet-of-things (IoT) devices that were commandeered by hackers. A decade ago, this may have …
From toasters to baby monitors, IoT's role in cyberattacks Read More »