SAN DIEGO — You might need to shield more than just your child’s ears from the news sometimes. Your Alexa device could be listening as well. Alexa is the digital assistant in Amazon’s Echo Dot that reacts to vocal commands. In a segment Thursday for XETV in San Diego, anchor Jim Patton talked about a […]
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WooHoo doesn’t just want to be your new Amazon Echo — it wants to do everything for you. With facial recognition, a cam, a touch screen and smart-home hub functionality, SmartBeings WooHoo brings a lot of extras to the voice assistant role. Now, we’ll just need to see if it can master any of those
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Did you read our story last week about the little girl in Texas who used Alexa to order a dollhouse and cookies? She says the family’s Echo Dot mistook a conversation for an order request. The unusual story made national news and was featured on local stations as well. When one anchor mentioned the “wake
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January 09, 2017 12:29 p.m. Updated Gentex eyes home automation market By David Sedgwick Gentex CFO Steve Downing Pretty soon, motorists will punch a button in their overhead console to open the garage door, turn on the house lights, adjust the home temperature, turn on the sound system and unlock the front door. This next
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January 09, 2017 Share this content: Sensors and Alexa proliferated, but the tech conference really confirmed what marketers already knew. Image source: Thinkstock As futuristic tech conferences go, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was among the strangest. The annual event lasted four days and wrapped Sunday. This year’s CES offered few landmark
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What happened Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) reported first-quarter results in the early morning hours on Monday. In response to the news, shares of the industrial LED lighting specialist fell as much as 18.7% during the morning session. So what In the first quarter, Acuity’s net sales increased 16% year over year, landing at $851 million. Adjusted
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(BII) This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Prime members can order on their Echo via a voice search for a restaurant. The Echo will then list the orders that the customer has previously received from that location, and the user can select one
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Ayla Networks recently announced an enhanced suite of services leveraging the tool for Internet of Things manufacturers Despite the explosive growth of smart products entering the market, the Internet of Things space still feels relatively disjointed. While numerous companies have stepped forward to pitch their IoT hubs as the future-forward solution for integrating multiple unaffiliated
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LAS VEGAS—Talking to a Las Vegas Uber driver during CES is a bit like chatting to a patient in the doctor’s office lobby who is waiting to get a colonoscopy. Sure, he knows this is all good. But boy, does the traffic suck in the here and now. Yeah, it’s a safe bet to say
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January 9, 2017 – By Winifred Garcia · 0 Comments The stock of Control4 Corporation (NASDAQ:CTRL) registered a decrease of 3.54% in short interest. CTRL’s total short interest was 1.21 million shares in January as published by FINRA. Its down 3.54% from 1.26M shares, reported previously. With 122,000 shares average volume, it will take short
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