Amazon’s assistant Alexa has become a very popular solution for those who want advanced voice controls. There are skills for all kinds of apps and services, but it is also true discovering them has so far been a mess. You can do a lot with Alexa and Echo products, but sometimes people just don’t know […]
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WenZhan Song has been named the Georgia Power Mickey A. Brown Professor in Engineering at the University of Georgia College of Engineering. The appointment was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia at its October meeting. The Georgia Power Mickey A. Brown Professorship in Engineering is part of a strategic
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You didn’t know you needed them in your life, but now that they’re together, you probably won’t be able to resist either the singing fish of the early 2000s or Amazon’s Alexa. For those of us who remember the Big Mouth Billy Bass, that ridiculous and somehow immensely popular fish that would wag its tail and sing
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Dynamic Network Services Inc, which manages Internet traffic, said at about 11am GMT that its infrastructure had been hit. A DNS service (Domain Name System) Dyn was used by these websites and it was the target of the attack as it will direct the users to where the website is stored. “Typically DDoS attacks are
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I remember The Big Mouth Billy Bass, The Singing Sensation. In 1999, I purchased one for my sister Kathy as a Christmas present just to annoy her. She hated it so much that she boxed it up and mailed it back to me. You might recall the animatronic singing largemouth bass fish was motion-activated. When
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Television and consumer electronics manufacturer TCL recognizes the rise of personal voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, so the company has integrated the service into a tablet designed specifically for the kitchen. TCL’s Xess tablet is a massive 17.3-inch “smart home hub,” and aside from the new Alexa integration, it offers built-in dual 3-watt JBL speakers,
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In Brief Researchers have discovered some glaring weaknesses in some of our IoT devices that allow for worms to creep in and wreak havoc. White hat hackers allow companies to fix these loophole prior to people with more dastardly intentions finding them. An Old Enemy When we talk about computer attacks, we think about the
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As the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves toward becoming one of the fastest expanding sectors in the tech industry, a lot of focus is being given to greenfield development, the process of creating new devices from scratch. Many companies and startups are rushing to ship new connected products to store shelves in order to secure
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In my last post I discussed implementing Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service on a Raspberry Pi but you can also do the same on other platforms; witness AVS driving a hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass: Created by Brian Kane, a a teacher at Rhode Island School of Design, this is a wonderful rethink of a 20-year
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So Big Mouth Billy Bass — you know, that animatronic singing fish that was annoyingly popular at the end of the 1990s — was, frankly, already pretty creepy. But one little modification brought it to new, disturbing heights. Brian “Wizard of Terror” Kane posted this lil’ video to Facebook on Oct. 27, which features a