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Connected Appliance Shipments to Pass 200m pa by 2021 as Vendors Develop eCommerce …

Hampshire, UK – 1st November 2016: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of connected home appliance shipments is set to reach 202 million globally by 2021, rising from just 17 million in 2016. It argued that with the additional cost of including basic connectivity now less than $10, hardware manufacturers

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Technically speaking: how designers are putting the home back into home tech

Merchandising slogans like ‘intelligent home’ and ‘automated home’ have been banded around since the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In recent times, these have become increasingly difficult to decode. Despite the unprecedented potential of smart home technology, when faced with the prospect of AI butlers and networking kitchens, it’s easy to see why even the

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IoT interoperability: Where it stands and what comes next

The Allseen Alliance earlier this month merged with the Open Connectivity Foundation with plans to operate under the OCF name in working towards interoperability in the “internet of things” market through open source software frameworks and standards. IoT interoperability is a hot topic at conferences around the world, with the forecast billions of forthcoming IoT devices

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Google Home, Assistant, Nest and Cast Merge as Unified Smart Home Ecosystem

By Julie Jacobson · October 31, 2016 Google Home, the smart home hub that could put Amazon Echo (Alexa) to shame, was announced recently with a new speech-recognition engine called Google Assistant. At the same time, the company introduced the Pixel mobile phone with the new voice-control platform onboard. (Assistant is not available for other

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Why veteran game devs are now creating interactive audio dramas

Last week, Paradox-owned White Wolf announced a partnership with interactive audio drama producer Earplay to produce an “interactive audio experience” set in White Wolf’s World of Darkness universe. Earplay’s work is intriguing because the company has basically set itself up as a purveyor of playable audio drama, and this project is especially notable for game devs because it’s

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Students Showcase Programming Skills at UCR's Citrus Hack

More than 400 students competed to create new apps and products in 36-hour hackathon By Sarah Nightingale on October 31, 2016 Share this article: Participants demonstrate their work at Citrus Hack 2016, a hackathon organized by students in UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering. RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — It took 400 students just two sleepless nights

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