A long time ago, science fiction brought us the futuristic idea of controlling your home with your voice. In recent years, home automation has emerged from the realm of maybe-someday into a more widespread reality. The popularity of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is helping to shepherd this tech revolution into the mainstream. Alexa isn’t just […]
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Getty Apple CEO Tim Cook explained on Tuesday’s earnings call just how the Siri virtual assistant, combined with his haul of HomeKit smart home gear, improves his morning routine. “When I say ‘good morning’ to Siri, my house lights come on and my coffee starts brewing,” Cook said. And when it’s time
One of the biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence is the belief that today’s AIs possess generalized intelligence. We are really good at leveraging large data sets to accomplish specific tasks, but fall flat at replicating the breadth of human intelligence. If we’re going to move toward generalized intelligence, Facebook wants to make sure we know how to evaluate progress.
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As a technological turning point, the Internet of Things ranks with the advent of the Internet itself and mobile computing. Even in its nascent form today, IoT is changing the way we interact with our physical environment and how we learn from it too. Besides bringing us Internet-enabled light bulbs and self-driving cars, the IoT
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Imagine getting used to controlling your home using Amazon’s Alexa and then it just stops working. What do you do? Do you remember how to the turn the lights on manually like 98% of the rest of the world? This is the scenario recently for new Sylvania LIGHTIFY customers. The LIGHTIFY Alexa skill disappeared from
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Awareness of smart home devices is growing – but what do people really think about them? Gimmicks, a fad or an integral part of everyday life? A smart home device is one that let you control and/or monitor it remotely from your smartphone; or one that can operate autonomously. Solar power systems are increasingly becoming
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How do the industrial internet of things, big data and predictive maintenance impact common equipment maintenance routines? What should maintenance teams consider in order to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies enable? Smart manufacturing is at the heart of Industry 4.0. The move toward digitalization has brought the “smart factory” concept to life.
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Control4 Corporation, a leading global provider of connected home solutions, announces the release and immediate worldwide availability of BakPak on Pakedge RK-1 Routers. A first for the industry, the integration of the latest release of BakPak management software with the router enables Control4 dealers to offer more homeowners the benefits of a monitored, intelligent home network.
Can the “Internet of Things” help teachers observe the hidden dimensions of human learning in real time, without compromising student privacy? It’s a “moonshot,” said the leaders of a new multidisciplinary research initiative at the University of Southern California. But it’s worth a try. “We want to provide meaningful data to help teachers make sense
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Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt in Austria. Screenshot via Romantik Hotels & Restaurants Of the various things you may be worrying about these days, getting locked out of your lovely hotel room in scenic Austria is probably not very high on the list. But last week, guests at the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt in the Austrian village of
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