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An Amazon Echo device.Amazon Amazon is continuing to resist efforts from US police to obtain Alexa data that could prove to be useful for an ongoing murder investigation, Associated Press reports. The Seattle tech giant filed a motion last Friday — its first formal legal response on the issue — to prevent prosecutors in Arkansas […]

The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later. Mike Carter, chief marketing officer for D3 Banking, doesn’t expect that pattern to be disrupted when it comes to the adoption of voice recognition technology, like Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant. But, he said,

Tech Alexa has reached an impressive 10,000 skills but it is still not allowed to stand as witness to a crime. (Photo : Alexa Skills/YouTube) Alexa, the AI from Amazon has reached the 10,000 mark of acquired skills, an astounding feat by all means. Interestingly, though, the ability to stand trial as a witness for

Smart homes Putting your home to work for you Imagine coming home from a long day’s work and you open the door, and the lights immediately turn on a shade past dim – just the way you like it. It’s 8:00 pm by the time you freshen up and as you sit down in the

SAN JOSE, Calif. – New silicon and services are on the way to expand the emerging field of ambient computing Amazon pioneered with Alexa. New options may arrive this year from Google, Microsoft, Intel and perhaps Apple for devices with built-in voice interfaces linked to cloud services. In a sign of how fast the field

Alexa ain’t no snitch.Image: Christina ascani/mashable By Brett Williams2017-02-24 00:59:58 UTC Add yet another skill to Alexa’s repertoire: staunch defense of the First Amendment.  Amazon is holding firm and refusing to hand over voice and transcription data recorded by an Echo speaker to prosecutors in Arkansas as part of a murder trial.  Amazon maintains the

You get notifications from all sorts of services — Facebook, Twitter, UberEATS — but what happens if your home has an issue? If you have an iPhone, a camera could just tell you what’s up. This week, D-Link has launched the first device intended to keep you abreast of what’s happening at home if you