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Google Home vs Amazon Echo vs Apple Home: Alexa may soon be able to identify users based on …

The sci-fi vision of a connected home is quickly becoming a reality: both Amazon and Google have launched smart assistants, with an Apple offering based on the company’s HomeKit system is rumoured to be on the way. These products are designed to act as standalone hubs for your digital life. Voice activation systems allow users to […]

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There's one big problem with voice assistants — Amazon and Google are racing to fix it

The Amazon Echo.AP/Jeff Chiu Current-gen voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, – which you can interact with by speaking commands to connected speakers from the respective companies – have a major drawback: They can only be connected to a single user account at a time. That means that your partner can’t access their

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Elliptic Labs Introduces Ultrasonic Presence Detection Technology, INNER PEACE, for Intelligent …

February 27, 2017 — Powered by Ultrasound, the Technology is More Reliable and Covers Broader Area than Alternative Approaches BARCELONA & BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mobile World Congress Elliptic Labs, the innovator in ultrasound sensing, today announced INNER PEACE, a technology advance that takes presence detection to new levels and is aimed at the fast-multiplying market for intelligent

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Cisco's Jasper unit lands IoT deals in auto, connected health, trials NB-IoT

Cisco’s Jasper Internet of things unit landed partnerships with automaker Honda, Korea Telecom and wearable health tracking company Jupl and completed live trials of a Narrow-Band IoT implementation with Australian telecom Optus. The news landed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where Cisco’s Jasper unit outlined its progress since being acquired by the networking giant

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The latest internet-of-things privacy breach was brought to you by teddy bears

They’re really quite sinister.Image: cloudpets By Jack Morse2017-02-28 03:45:03 UTC As if you needed another reason not to put an internet-connected microphone in your child’s bedroom.  A California-based toy company selling “a message you can hug” reportedly exposed over 2 million voice messages recorded between parents and children to online hackers. What’s worse, the company

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Amazon teaches Alexa to recognize the sound of your voice, report says

Amazon’s Alexa may finally be able to recognize your voice.Image: Mikael Buck/REX/Shutterstock By Karissa Bell2017-02-28 02:23:16 UTC Amazon’s Alexa could soon be a lot smarter. The company is working on a new feature that would allow its voice-enabled assistant to distinguish between different voices, according to a report form Time.  The feature, which for now

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