One in three people aren’t getting enough sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So a cavalcade of products are aiming to address sleep issues—the global market for sleep aids is projected by BCC Research to reach $76.7 billion by 2019—and many of them are connected. Here are some of the latest: […]
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We like to drink here at Geek.com. It’s not quantity that matters, but quality, and as such, we’ve held several fine whisky tastings in the lab over the years. Everything from rare and unique single malts to blended bar staples like Johnnie Walker Black. And the world-renowned scotch distillery tried to get artificial intelligence in
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(Photo : PCMag/YouTube) Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick is faster and less expensive than ever, and comes with an Alexa-enabled voice remote out of the box, making it the best budget-friendly media streamer you can buy. Amazon’s best selling TV stick has just been upgraded. It is the next-generation Fire TV stick that features Alexa
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Google Pixel is the first ever phone that Google has released. The smartphone is available in different sizes- 5 inches for the Pixel and 5.5 inches for the Pixel XL. Advertisement Google Pixel and Pixel XL were released on October 20, 2016. The price for Pixel starts at about $650 while the Pixel XL is
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This was a tough year for GoPro. This past spring the action-cam innovator saw its stock price do a cliff dive related to poor demand for its products, and then had to delay shipments of its first drone, the Karma. But as of late, the company seems to have rebounded, launching the Karma and introducing
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On Friday, web-connected home devices were used by hackers and released a malware called Mirai to launch attacks on websites.(Photo: Photo: ICT Blog’s/YouTube) Hackers are on to something again. Over the years, the World Wide Web has been the biggest bridge of communication of internet users, and this doesn’t mean that they are not vulnerable
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One of many visions of the smart home of the very near future, from British Gas. Image: Benjamin Braun via youtube By Adario Strange2016-10-23 01:27:26 UTC Winter is here. The Internet of Things (IoT) winter, that is. All those digital routers, DVRs, “smart” kitchen appliances and IP-enabled cameras you assumed were innocuous as they worked
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An army of copycat hackers could seize control of internet-connected home devices to carry out cyber-attacks, security experts have warned. Web-connected “smart” gadgets including cameras, digital TV recorders, smart kettles and plugs are all vulnerable to being hacked by criminals and used remotely to mount cyber-attacks, according to James Lyne, head of security at Sophos,
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Right now there are 42 computers on my personal network. That doesn’t mean I have a computer cluster in my home to rival the Pentagon’s. Instead it means I have nearly four dozen individual networked devices — from game consoles to webcams — talking to the internet from my home. And that’s a big problem.
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The SelfieBot by Endurance Robots By George Formitchev Ray Kurzweil said that one day we’ll become hemi hybrids – demi humans, demi cyborgs… I want it to happen as soon as possible. It’s all about information. It’s growing with every passing day. It takes more and more time to uptake and process this massive data.