This afternoon, President Trump went to see a 4th-grade class at St. Andrew Catholic School in Florida with Betsy Devos, Gov. Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and Ivanka. According to the pool report, Trump told one girl who wanted to start her own business, “That’s a good idea. Make a lot of money, right? […]
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Amazon’s Alexa can already hail an Uber, order a pizza and organize your shopping list. Now she’s funding a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Amazon announced a partnership with the university Thursday to support a doctoral student at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Language and Speech Processing. Amazon’s Alexa is Amazon’s digital assistant,
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Tens of millions of people around the world own devices they can talk to, that can provide answers to spoken questions and can perform tasks as vocally instructed – and that can talk back. Think about this for a second. Machines that mimic human behavior have been a dream – and, sometimes, a nightmare –
James Gillespie Crunch Network Contributor A 25-year veteran of the automation business, Jim Gillespie is the co-founder of Gray Matter Systems, an operations management firm. An engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Jim earned his MBA from Duquesne University. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is creating huge opportunities in the water and wastewater industries,
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Home automation is a growing trend with its roots in decades old wired technology. It is quickly becoming a child of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. While many of its components still host wired connections like their ancestors, much of the recent innovation is linked via AI-based virtual assistants. Here’s a look at some of the
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Privacy breaches and cybersecurity failures are becoming – it pains me to say – all too commonplace. However, that doesn’t mean some of them are not uncommonly strange, involving circumstances so odd they are almost unbelievable. Consider the following tale of two images (which may be worth more than two thousand words for the pair). First, consider the
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Cisco Blog > Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Stephanie Gaspar – March 3, 2017 – 0 Comments Guest Blogger: Shilpa Kholhatkar, Senior Business Development Manager, IoT Systems Group Shilpa is responsible for driving the growth of Cisco’s IoT products across major verticals such as Manufacturing, Energy, Transportation and Public Sector. She has a unique profile that
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Amazon has introduced a Door Lock API that allows internet-connected lock providers to enable their locks to lock and eventually unlock doors with Amazon Alexa. The Door Lock API is part of Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit, a collection of APIs and tools that developers can use to add skills to Alexa, the voice-activated intelligent assistant
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“North America is expected to hold the largest market share in the IoT managed services market” Internet of things (IoT) managed services market categorizes the global market by service type as infrastructure management, security management, network management, data management, device management, by vertical, and by region. According to report “Internet of Things (IoT) Managed Services
Proposals to tax robots have been debated by serious folks recently. The European Union considered but ultimately rejected the idea of taxing firms that use robots. And last week Quartz published an interview with Bill Gates in which he argues for a robot tax. These proposals follow a spate of recent articles on robots and
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