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Amazon has brought its hosting services back online after more than four hours of errors that took down sites and services across the web. Hosting services are now “operating normally,” Amazon says, and the errors that had been popping up throughout the day are supposed to have been resolved. A huge number of companies rely […]

They came from around the country. They came from around the world, Journalists. Professors. Librarians. Software Developers. Activists, and Data Scientists. A gathering that ordinarily would have taken months of planning and a team of organizers and programmers was instead the work of a handful of hardworking volunteers and a quickly put together group of

Cord-cutters should be very excited to learn about YouTube TV, a streaming-service coming from Google that hopes to rival Sling, Roku, Hulu and your local cable-provider. The service will launch in select markets, and for just $35. YouTube TV will offer live TV streaming from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, regional sports networks and dozens

Back in 2014 a few of our editors made the switch to keyless entryways, and Schlage was the favorite choice at the time. Three years later, and we all still love our new systems, but Schlage has added a few technical advancements that might make it time for an upgrade. Schlage announced that the company

Mike George, VP Alexa, Echo and Appstore for Amazon. Rick Wilking / Reuters In the near future, Amazon’s Alexa could be on the other end of your next call to tech support. With call centers expected to become a more than $15 billion industry in the next five years, the online retail giant has apparently

CARMEL, Ind., Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Schlage®, a brand of Allegion® that has been creating stylish, innovative door hardware for more than 95 years, today announced it will provide voice activation accessibility to its Schlage Connect™ Touchscreen Deadbolt via Amazon Alexa. This added level of functionality enables consumers to utilize Alexa-enabled devices, such as

When buying a smart lock, most consumers want remote access. However, you usually have to pay extra for this service from the lock manufacturer or pair your smart lock with a connected hub. Today Kwikset, a leading smart lock manufacturer, announced its new integration with Samsung SmartThings™. The integration will allow owners of Kwikset® SmartCode™

Wink You can already use Alexa to control Wink-compatible connected lights, switches and thermostats, but now the IoT company is letting you use the virtual assistant to lock your doors. Wink announced today that you can employ those handy voice commands to make sure your doors are locked. The company says that smart locks from

Enlarge Image Schlage is one of six partners to work with Amazon’s new Door Lock API. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Amazon today simplified smart locks for Alexa, by adding a Door Lock API to its Alexa Skills Kit. This API, or application program interface, is designed to improve voice commands for lock partners Schlage, Yale, Kwikset, August,

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images If your favorite website or internet service isn’t accessible today, it’s probably not just you. Amazon Web Services’ S3 cloud storage is experiencing “high error rates” that have caused chaos among many of the sites that depend on AWS to work. Our own website is one of them, but the