The ballooning security problems presented by the burgeoning Internet of Things phenomenon need to be addressed as quickly as possible, but the ecosystem’s complexity makes it hard to know where to start, a government advisory panel was told Wednesday. The question has taken on a new urgency following the massive DDoS attack last week, which brought […]
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If you have an old Amazon Fire tablet gathering dust in your upstairs attic, you might want to consider dusting it off — in the coming weeks, it is set to learn a few new tricks. On Wednesday, retail behemoth Amazon announced that Alexa, its intelligent voice assistant, will debut on the new Fire HD 8 and the
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Samsung has hired Fan TV founder Gilles BianRosa as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer for Visual Display Content & Services. In its new role, BianRosa will be overseeing heading product for Samsung’s smart TVs and other connected home devices. “There was no way I was going to pass up on this
‘Let’s build a single supercomputer that is smarter than all of humanity put together.’ While that sounds ominously similar to what a mad scientist in a fictional universe would say before unleashing a deadly robotic that destroys all humanity, that is exactly the ideal behind the advancement of artificial intelligence as we have come to call
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ARM chief technology officer Mike Muller has a fun job. He goes about collecting some of the most interesting things that customers are doing with the company’s microprocessor designs for the Internet of Things, or making everyday objects smart and connected. In a talk at the ARM TechCon event yesterday, he showed plenty of cool
A recent large-scale series of cyber attacks brought down multiple major websites in the U.S. and now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acknowledges IoT device security to be a factor. “This malware is referred to as Mirai and compromises Internet of Things devices, such as surveillance cameras and entertainment systems connected to the Internet,”
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HOUSTON, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Flowserve today announced they will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to help industrial customers make their operations, safer, more efficient and more reliable. The collaboration will be part of the Honeywell INspireTM program, Honeywell’s joint customer development program for its IIoT ecosystem.
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By Editorial Board, WHAT HAPPENED last Friday on the Internet might be remembered as the Day of the Zombie Baby Monitors. Tens of millions of electronic devices that are online, such as baby monitors, security webcams and digital video recorders, all of them infected with malware, were given a mysterious order to attack, and they
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With the release of Swipe the Vote in spring 2016, Tinder, the ultimate hook-up app, broke new ground in the United States by claiming to be able to match young voters with their dream-perfect presidential candidate. The matchmaking app tries to make voting sexy by employing to representative politics its same cut-to-the-chase dating method. Who wants
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Last Friday’s widespread cyber attack that took down major websites like Twitter, Spotify and Amazon was at least partly attributed to malware that infected devices called the “Internet of Things,” or simply devices like DVRs and routers that are connected to the internet and, as experts have been warning, are at a high risk of
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