Right now there are 42 computers on my personal network. That doesn’t mean I have a computer cluster in my home to rival the Pentagon’s. Instead it means I have nearly four dozen individual networked devices — from game consoles to webcams — talking to the internet from my home. And that’s a big problem. …
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The SelfieBot by Endurance Robots By George Formitchev Ray Kurzweil said that one day we’ll become hemi hybrids – demi humans, demi cyborgs… I want it to happen as soon as possible. It’s all about information. It’s growing with every passing day. It takes more and more time to uptake and process this massive data. …
Image source: Sierra Wireless. The number of devices getting connected to the internet is accelerating, and investors are jumping on board. Much of the buzz is about the hardware and the smart devices themselves, such as watches, lightbulbs, and thermostats, but as the Internet of Things (IoT) expands, the longer-term opportunity is in the software …
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“Alexa … who is telling the truth?” Winston Churchill believed that the best argument against democracy was a five-minute chat with the average voter. For millions of average American voters, that five minutes has now gone on for more than a year and a half. After months of campaigning, mud-slinging, televised debates, scandals, the two candidates vying …
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“Alexa … who is telling the truth?” Winston Churchill believed that the best argument against democracy was a five-minute chat with the average voter. For millions of average American voters, that five minutes has now gone on for more than a year and a half. After months of campaigning, mud-slinging, televised debates, scandals, the two candidates vying …
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“Good settlement with FCC today. @TMobile believes more info is best for customers.” T-Mobile CEO John Legere, on Twitter, after the company agreed to pay $48 million over claims it misled customers in promoting its unlimited data plan “It seems like they’re swimming upstream with that.” Researcher Tom Austin on IBM’s efforts to build a business …
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MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 22 (UPI) — Hackers used “smart” home devices connected to the internet as weapons in the cyberattack against internet performance company Dyn, security experts said. Security analysts believe the Friday distributed-denial-of-service attack, which shutdown popular websites such as Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Reddit and Amazon was carried out using CCTV video cameras, digital …
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The nation’s growing attachment to an “Internet of Things” likely helped hackers launch a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that led to problems on numerous major websites on Friday, Dyn, the company that manages much of the Internet’s infrastructure, said Friday. “This was not your everyday DDoS attack,” Dyn chief strategist Kyle York told The New …
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(Photo : Guillermo Fernandes / Flickr) Amazon Echo Dot from goatandtable mens blog In the world of robot assistants, Amazon is one of the leading makers of smart speakers. The Amazon Echo released this March 2016 had great reviews and was constantly out of stock. It was surprisingly a big hit! Following the success of …
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NPR’s Scott Simon talk with NPR technology reporter Alina Selyukh about the internet outages that disrupted major U.S. websites on Friday. Enlarge this image Dyn is a company that helps route Internet traffic and supports major websites and services. Dyn/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Dyn/Screenshot by NPR Updated at 7:30 p.m. ET Hackers …
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