The Amazon Echo. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Alexa: Escalate the war. On Thursday, Amazon announced that it is adding its voice assistant Alexa to its Fire tablets for the first time. (Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.) The voice assistant has previously been in Amazon’s Echo, Fire TV and Fire Stick devices, […]
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Too lazy to read your tweets? Now, Amazon Alexa can just read them to you instead. Yes, that’s right: Twitter today has launched an app for Amazon’s voice platform Alexa, which means you can listen to the latest from Twitter right on your Echo speaker or other Alexa-powered device. The new app can give you
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Chipmaker’s $7.7 billion investment in security firm did not deliver as expected, analysts say Intel’s decision this week to sell a majority stake in its McAfee subsidiary to asset firm TPG for $3.1 billion gives Intel a way cut losses on what many agree has been an underwhelming investment for the company. Intel acquired McAfee
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The Pokémon Go app has broken download and engagement records. What can banks learn from the phenomenon to better enrich customers’ digital experience? 1. Syncing works perfectly. Many users consider this the best available feature of Pokémon Go—the fact that the syncing works perfectly. If we catch a Pokémon on one of our devices, it
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(TNS) — Billions of digital conversations are going on around us, a stream of wireless chatter from machine to machine that companies on Long Island and beyond hope to ride to prosperity. This is the “Internet of Things,” the wireless network that allows devices ranging from coffee makers to thermostats to jet engines to automobiles — all
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Twitter has announced a new “skill” for Echo devices called Twitter Reader. The company tweeted that you can now “use the Twitter Reader to hear trends, top Tweets, notifications & more!” A report yesterday revealed that Amazon might open up its Alexa ecosystem to allow push notifications, so that it could interrupt to warn you
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The Federal Communications Commission should redefine broadband as speeds of at least 50 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream, according to the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. Those speeds represent a significant step up from the current definition of 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream. The advocacy group Open Technology Institute argues that
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Fitbit, a U.S. company well known for its electronic wearable fitness devices, has launched its newest fitness tracker dubbed as Fitbit Charge 2. By Rida | Sep 09, 2016 02:04 PM EDT Fitbit will soon be recieving a voice with Amazon’s Alexa. Now, users will be able to track their fitness progress without ever needing
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The U.S. Justice Department has formed a threat analysis team to study potential national security challenges posed by self-driving cars, medical devices, and other Internet-connected tools, a senior official said. The new group’s goal is to secure the so-called “Internet of things” from exploitation by “terrorist threats” and by others who might try to hack
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