The Amazon Echo Dot has already received some high praise due to how well it truly works, especially for its price tag. It’s essentially a much smaller Amazon Echo, and the price definitely shows, with it coming in at just $50 as its regular price tag. Amazon has been bundling the Echo Dot with other …
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There are plenty of smart lighting options that you can control with an app or even with your voice, but you’ll find few perfect solutions for smartening up an all-in-one, built-in recessed fixture. In many cases, there might not be any bulb at all to swap out, and most smart switches won’t let you dim …
On the global battlefield of cyberwarfare, there’s a vast army of faceless foot soldiers — and they’ve just been revealed as double agents. The directed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought the Internet to its knees one day last month used everyday household appliances like cameras, universal remotes, DVRs and even washing machines. That’s …
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Update Date: Nov 05, 2016 07:45 AM EDT WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 16: (L-R) Kevin Charest, chief information security officer for the Health and Human Services Department; Teresa Fryer, chief information security officer and director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Enterprise Information Security Group, and Frank Baitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information …
Last week, a 19-year-old British teenager pleaded guilty to running Titanium Stresser, a service that is alleged to have facilitated 1.7 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks. Adam Mudd’s website, which he designed as a 15-year-old, earned him somewhere in excess of $385,000. It was marketed under disclaimer as a legitimate IP stresser, a tool for testing …
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The contender to Amazon’s digital assistant home device has arrived. The fight is on this Holidays. Who will win? Amazon stood up Google and Apple with the release of Amazon Echo two years ago. That is right. While Google was still playing with sandbox toys, Amazon has shipped a device that can answer all your …
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Shares of Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR) popped nearly 15% on Friday after the Internet of Things pure play released better-than-expected third-quarter 2016 results. And according to Sierra Wireless management, the company should only get stronger going forward. Before we get there, however, let’s dig deeper to see what Sierra Wireless achieved in its latest quarter. IMAGE …
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A key hurdle to widespread gigabit-speed Internet is the high cost of getting fiber optic lines over the last mile — from the fiber backbone in nearby streets to each house. But increasingly, cellular operators, broadband providers including Google Fiber and several startups are exploring a new, less expensive way to bridge the last mile …
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Brief internet outages this week in Liberia have captured the attention of cybersecurity researchers around the world, who fear the small West African nation has become a testing zone for global hackers. Punishing digital attacks sent all of Liberia offline for short, intermittent periods, often barely a second. One cybersecurity researcher said the attacks were …
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