News Feed Item Minister Qualtrough Congratulates Aurélie Rivard on Canada’s First Gold Medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games By Marketwired . Article Rating: September 10, 2016 01:56 AM EDT RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — (Marketwired) — 09/10/16 — On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, I congratulate Aurelie Rivard (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, […]
Faculty & Staff By Julie Araica September 9, 2016 In his class, adjunct professor Paul DeCarlo asks students to build microcontrollers. | Courtesy of Paul DeCarlo Palm trees, peach trees, lemon trees and microcontrollers are just a few of the things that have given adjunct professor Paul DeCarlo a backyard that would make any green
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Tweet Share Amazon’s retail plans are growing from a single brick-and-mortar bookstore to a large network of pop-up shops in US malls, according to a report from Business Insider. These retail locations are said to be distinct from Amazon’s existing Seattle storefront, focusing not on books but on its growing number of consumer electronic devices.
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Some key trends disrupting industrial manufacturing right now are having a significant effect on an aging workhorse as well. In its latest market analysis of the distributed control system (DCS), ARC Advisory Group details the qualitative trends impacting the evolution of the DCS, including the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), convergence of information and operational
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Soon, you might have a hard time telling the difference between human and computer voices. Apple’s Siri personal assistant is getting a lot smarter in the upcoming iOS 10, but odds are she’ll still sound like a computer. Meanwhile, a subsidiary of Google (her creator’s rival) is working on an entirely new model for teaching
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Listen—it’s the beautiful sound of tweets being read aloud by a robot. Twitter has just launched a new ‘skill’ for Alexa-powered devices like the Echo that lets you interact with the service with just your voice. You can now ask Alexa to read your timeline, your mentions, and more. You’ll need to learn the specific
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The role that whole-mind education, technology and today’s generation will play in shaping our innovative future is the topic of this year’s College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Reno. Jason Mendenhall, Switch Executive Vice President of Cloud, will present “Internet of Things, the Future and Our Part in It,” at
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Image source: Getty Images. Investors will be forgiven for wanting to give up on Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR). The Internet of Things (IoT) pure play is one of the top embedded-module makers in the world. Its technology is used to connect Tesla‘s vehicles to the internet and many other devices boast its machine-to-machine modules. But the company
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Copyright Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant now speaks Twitter. Twitter has rolled out an app called Twitter Reader so that people can have their Amazon Echo smart speakers or other Alexa-enabled devices recite their Twitter feeds. The app — which appears to be the first Alexa app from a major
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The Amazon Echo. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Alexa: Escalate the war. On Thursday, Amazon announced that it is adding its voice assistant Alexa to its Fire tablets for the first time. (Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.) The voice assistant has previously been in Amazon’s Echo, Fire TV and Fire Stick devices,
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