Wink is replacing its $69 squarish hub with a new, slimmer device, the Wink Hub 2. The $99 device will go on sale in late October at various retailers, including Walmart. The hub works with many smart home protocols and devices to control a variety of smart locks, lights, and other products. With that $30 […]
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Last week, Google introduced Allo, a new chat app with a built-in “Google Assistant” — a chatbot that lives in the app, answering questions you pose it in regular, everyday speech. It’s the latest in a wave of natural-language chatbots and “assistants” that have been rolled out by big tech companies over the last few
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT–(Marketwired – Sep 27, 2016) – EnOcean today announced the appointment of Neil Cannon as the company’s new President of EnOcean Inc., the company’s North American Division. In this position, he will further develop EnOcean’s business in the North American market and strengthen the company’s position as worldwide leading supplier of patented
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After being sold by bankrupt parent company Quirky last year, it’s good to see that Wink is still alive and kicking. The Wink Hub 2 ($99) is the next generation of the company’s original home automation hub. Like its predecessor, it connects multiple third-party smart home gadgets in one place, so you can adjust, control,
German carmakers Audi, BMW, and Daimler on Tuesday launched an alliance with mobile telecoms network equipment firms Ericsson eric , Huawei, Intel intc , Nokia, and Qualcomm qcom to accelerate development of the infrastructure needed for self-driving cars.The pact is another example of Germany’s premium carmakers collaborating to build technology expertise necessary to take on
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While vendors are in a mad rush, exploring the opportunities of IoT for the business, and industries are dragging heels on its actual implementation, mainstream IoT community seems to almost completely overlook one issue – the challenges IoT has brought to the environment. The problem may not be obvious now, but keeping in mind that
Amazon has announced that its smart speaker system, known as Amazon Echo , will go on sale in the UK tomorrow, September 28. The Echo, which has been available in the US since June 2015 , is a 23.5 cm tall cylindrical speaker – similar in appearance to the UE Megaboom – with a seven-piece
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CALABASAS, Calif., Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTSI), a global leader in high-definition audio solutions, is working with Amazon to bring the Alexa service to the DTS Play-Fi® whole-home wireless ecosystem. Beginning in early 2017, listeners will be able to use an Alexa-enabled device, including the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap and Amazon
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India is not only one of the fastest-growing large economies in the world, it is also the third-largest smartphone market globally after China and the U.S. While that in itself is reason enough for companies like Google to be bullish on the country, recent reports actually indicted that India is well and truly Android country,
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