Amazon is expanding its services in the Netherlands and working on launching its video service and voice-assistant Alexa in the country. The company is in talks with developers of connected home services and devices and could launch the new products in early 2017, sources familiar with the matter told Telecompaper at the recent Connections Europe …
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Early Monday morning, for about thirty minutes, Twitter went dark. Almost immediately, once service was returned, people started speculating about a massive attack. It’s understandable, because to most the outage felt similar to the DDoS attack in October. However, Monday’s outage wasn’t anything malicious, by all accounts it was a technical error caused by misconfigured …
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BUFFALO, NY – It’s hard to share this sale without sounding like a commercial for Amazon. Since this deal will be picked up all over the country today, however, we wanted to be the first to notify you of a birthday-related bargain. The Amazon Echo – Amazon’s Alexa always-connected speaker, smart home command center and …
The CNBC TV network has announced the launch of the CNBC module for Amazon’s Alexa voice service. The widget, which is available on Alexa-enabled devices such as the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot, provides users with the top business news, quotes and market information. “We are thrilled to announce the launch of our CNBC skill …
The next major Windows 10 update from Microsoft is significantly being made to smoothen things up for Windows users and the tech giants are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts this time. Microsoft has announced the details about the next-generation delivery technologies, which is incorporated into the latest Windows Insider build to experience the pre-release …
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Amidst the US elections, climate change talks and a myriad of other global issues, one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks said to have been carried out using the Mirai botnet to take down the Internet of an entire country didn’t garner much attention. The attack is said to have been carried …
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(Image credit: Pexels) Technology used to be pretty simple. If you had some technical know-how, a few transistors and a soldering iron, you could go far. William Hewlett and David Packard built a billion dollar business in a garage and later, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did the same. It was a time of amazing opportunity. …
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Memorable fine arts achievement: “Winning sectionals last year in debate.” Other fine arts activities: Wind Symphony, jazz band, competitive speech and mock trial. What do you like about debate that keeps you involved: “Debate has a certain depth that is rare when compared to other activities. When I first started debate I joined because I …
Mobile devices can be hacked in a wide variety of ways. Smart home devices were never a real threat up until this point, but that situation has changed. WeMo smart home devices are adequately capable of spying on Android phones. This is a very worrisome development, and it does not appear that there is a …
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Delivered just a few days before Halloween, a developer named Brian Kane last week modified his Amazon Echo by replacing the device’s sleek outer shell with a Big Mouth Billy Bass, one of those singing wall-mounted fishes that became a fad for a hot second many years back. The end result is a concoction that …
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