How does the latest smart speaker measure up to the competition? Our GH Institute took it for a test drive. Most Popular Courtesy of Google Created with Sketch. Nov 7, 2016 Google just fired its first shot in the smart speaker battle: Called Google Home ($129, store.google.com), the new device acts a lot like its […]
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Ubisoft took a traditional live brand event one step further recently. Inviting fans to an event, which was then hacked by others online. That’s the kind of hacker experience that Ubisoft Canada launched with its Live Dedsec Hack in support of the upcoming launch of Watch Dogs 2. The event invited game fans to an
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Whenever I try to watch the local TV affiliates from my iPhone when I’m not connected to Wi-Fi, I get the message that I must be connected to my home Wi-Fi network. That kind of defeats the purpose of a mobile app. I’m wondering if this is a licensing or a technical issue. Seems odd
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Internet-connected devices have proved vulnerable to hackers. Image: B Calkins/Shutterstock The internet of things is totally broken. Amateur hackers have managed to build huge botnets of compromised devices, and many of these machines are difficult or near-impossible for manufacturers to remotely keep up to date. But there’s another way to keep internet of things hackers
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Hackers are going to try and influence the U.S. election, and they’ll try to use you to do it. Two weeks ago an enormous distributed denial of service attack crashed the servers of Dyn, a domain name services company that lets users find their way around the internet. (As a brief recap, domain name services,
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A Samsung logo is displayed in a mall beneath the company’s headquarters in the Gangnam district of Seoul on October 12, 2016. Samsung Electronics slashed its third-quarter profit estimate by 33.3 percent, citing fallout from the recall nightmare surrounding its scrapped Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. / AFP PHOTO / Ed JonesED JONES/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE
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An artificial intelligence engine just bid on an ad while another cut a movie trailer. Will the technology be coming for your job next? The question of whether marketing is more science or art has never seemed more relevant now that highly sophisticated cognitive learning technology is able to assume many of the tasks involved in
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There are now more predictions of where the Internet of Things may be heading in the next year. These are not forecasts based on orders or sales, but rather insights into coming market trends and directions. The first batch of these, by Forrester Research, came out earlier this month, as I wrote about here at
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Post written by Jimmy Pike Jimmy Pike is technologist in residence at Moor Insights & Strategy ARM TechCon 2016 is now one for the books. For many of the over 4,500 in attendance, the highlight was hearing from Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on his rationale for buying ARM Holdings and how it fits into his
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After Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 quickly became an absolute disaster, the last thing the company wants to do is release its next-generation flagship phone when the phone is anything but perfect. As such, it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise that the new Galaxy S8 set to debut next year may be released later than expected.
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