A new virtual assistant could help the South Korean tech giant recover from its exploding battery woes Samsung dominates the smartphone industry so much so that one in every five handsets sold worldwide come from the South Korean technology giant. But the firm is still reeling from the recall of millions of its big-screen Galaxy …
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Ever since I saw Disney’s Smart House in 1999, I’ve dreamed of a home that cleans itself and cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’re not there yet, but Apple’s HomeKit and Home app gets us (me) a bit closer to that dream. Apple is racing against Amazon and Google to try to get the masses …
File photo- Revellers take part in a Zombie Walk in Essen October 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Ina Fassbender) In the unlikely scenario of a zombie apocalypse, it would take just 60 days for the undead to take control of Chicago, according to research by the Argonne National Laboratory. Harnessing a computational model developed to study real-world diseases …
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MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 07, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ELECTRONICA 2016 — Qorvo® (Nasdaq:QRVO), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, is helping to advance smart home networking with a radio chip and software that significantly expand the ability of consumers to control their homes with spoken commands.The GP712 radio chip supports multiple …
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 7 (UPI) — A Rhode Island designer introduced gag gifts of the past to the tech of today by wiring Amazon’s virtual personal assistant into a Big Mouth Billy Bass. Brian Kane, an industrial design instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design, posted a video to Facebook showing what he refers …
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That was fast. About a month after agreeing to buy Viv — the AI firm helmed by the same engineers who created Siri — Samsung is readying a voice assistant of its own. Multiple reports say to expect the service by early next year, and sources even tellThe Wall Street Journal that Samsung will add …
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It was really just a matter of time before WiFi startup Luma added Alexa functionality to its bag of tricks. After all, the hardware startup counts Amazon as among its biggest backers – and distributors. The functionality arrives today for the simple WiFi range extenders, bringing with it the ability to “pause the internet” via …
Suddenly, those scissors look better than ever If you’re a cable TV cord-cutter, it looks like there’s an interesting option on the horizon. According to Variety, AT&T is going to give streamers free Apple TVs and Amazon Fire TV Sticks with its new $35-per-month streaming TV service, which it will call DirecTV Now. Customers who …
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Natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, can reek havoc on homes, causing extensive damage that’s expensive to fix. Notable storms such as the hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, along with the recent Louisiana flooding of historic proportions, have urged builders to turn their focus to storm proof homes with added security measures after seeing …
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