SAN FRANCISCO – Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say. Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website. Security […]
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Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say. Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website. Security analysts now believe
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Amazon plunged into the crowded field of music-streaming with its own service, rivaling Spotify and Apple. Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper reports on “Bloomberg Technology.”(Photo: Bloomberg/YoutubeScreenshot/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf39Z_ht09I) Amazon, an electronic commerce company, is launching a paid streaming music service known as Amazon Music Unlimited. Advertisement The music service is created to contend against other familiar music services, including
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“Alexa, what is love?” “Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more” Ok, getting Alexa to finish song lyrics might not be the primary purpose of the Dot, but to be honest I’m already talking to her much more than I do to Siri – which I have on me at all times of
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In my last post I discussed Freeboard, a powerful, polished, open source Web dashboard and mentioned that Bug Labs, the creators of Freeboard, also offer a very interesting Internet of Things messaging service called dweet which we’ll look at today. Now, there are many messaging services (for example MQTT) that can be used by IoT
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Twitter was unavailable for much of Friday after a massive attack on the underpinnings of the Internet. (Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infrastructure. NBC reported that a senior intelligence
Enlarge Image An audio-visual example of generated scenes with Joey saying new sentences. Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET How YOU doin’? If you’re a fan of the show “Friends,” you might be doin’ better after hearing this news. Researchers have “virtually immortalized” Joey Tribbiani from the long-running sitcom with a talking avatar that says the
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) is teaming up with home builders to promote HomeKit, its iPhone and iPad app for connected home devices. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple has joined hands with “a handful of builders” to integrate a connected device ecosystem into the houses they are building. “The best place to start is at the
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Having a heated argument while discussing the presidential elections with friends? Good news: Alexa can now fact check the 2016 campaign, answering questions about the candidate’s claims right on the spot. This includes statements made by Clinton and Trump, as well as other candidates and politicians whose comments have been checked. This fact-checking is being made possible
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IoT research firm Parks Associates released findings in which it says 46 percent of U.S. Millennials with smartphones use voice recognition software, including Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft’s Cortana. That aligns in an interesting way with research also put out recently by TiVo that showed 43 percent Millennials surveyed were using voice commands with some
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