No matter what side of the story one finds themselves on, the last 72 hours in America will likely make the history books. Between the inauguration on Friday (Jan. 20), the wave of pink-hatted protests on Saturday and the glorious victory of the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship, it has been a little […]
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Rochambeau’s Thinking Cap (Image: Rochambeau) Hot on the heels of its connected jacket that unlocked access to exclusive local experiences, New York menswear brand Rochambeau has introduced a “Thinking Cap” to make wearers smarter wherever they go. Unveiled as part of its collection for the International Woolmark Prize Final in Paris today, the concept piece
Hugo Barra (pictured), Xiaomi’s global VP, resigned from the once fast-rising Chinese smartphone maker, which has faced mounting obstacles over the past two years as competition in the handset market intensified in the mainland and globally. Barra, who joined the Chinese upstart three-and-a-half years ago from Google, announced in a Facebook post he will take some
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The Internet of things, or IoT, basically refers to the concept of connecting any electrical device to the internet, and to each other. Everything from cars to full-home security systems to printers to coffee makers are now available with Wi-Fi capability, enabling you to access and control them from virtually anywhere via your smart-phone or
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By Larry Magid, The Mercury News Do you remember the movie “The Graduate”? At one point during a party, a middle-aged man comes up to young Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben Braddock, and says “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. “Plastics … there’s a great future in plastics.” If I had
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All Silvan Lab products to sync with Amazon Echo Use voice command to control home automation gadgets Lock or unlock you main doors | Switch off the gas or air-conditions | Play music or control the lighting system and more. The era of internet of things (IoT) is upon us; and Silvan Innovation Labs has
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New types of cyberattacks linked to Internet of Things devices against key government agencies and social infrastructure-related facilities are likely to increase this year, a report showed Monday. According to the report by the state-run Korea Internet & Security Agency, a series of so-called distributed denial of service attacks on infrastructure systems through IoT-enabled devices may
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Guest host Sam Maule chats with American Banker reporter Lalita Clozel, Sam Hodges, managing director of Funding Circle, and Normand Lepine, senior practice lead at NTT DATA, about U.S. regulators’ approach to fintech companies and trends in smart home devices. He then interviews Brian Roemmele, founder of PayFinders.com, about the growth of virtual assistants and
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In this week’s column, Kehlan talks with inventor and CEO Christian Lane. Christian invented the iKettle and his company, Smarter, is now one of the leading Internet of Things (IoT) companies for domestic appliances. Firstly, give us an insight into what Smarter does? Smarter is a company that I started around three years ago. We
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If you’re not paying attention to what’s going on in energy, you should. We’ve seen this movie before. Spoiler alert: There’s massive economic opportunity ahead. How massive? Imagine standing in 1992, knowing that Google, Akamai, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, BuzzFeed and Uber lay ahead. This time it’s the “enernet,” not the internet, that will transform
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