Amazon’s Alexa can be used for a variety of home tasks, but could it make your phone calls? Recode reports that Amazon is developing Alexa-based devices that would have the ability to be used as a phone-like intercom. The devices are still in beta and details on functionality — for example, how the devices would pair …
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How much excitement can one tech product – the voice-activated Amazon Echo and its smaller siblings Echo Dot and Tap – generate before the “don’t-believe-the-hype” syndrome also sets in? Thanks to a gangbuster holiday season, the installed base of Amazon’s smart home “virtual assistant” speakers, which answer to the wake-up call “Alexa,” then do your …
Gizmo Guy: Alexa does makes us happy … some of the time Read More »
This afternoon, President Trump went to see a 4th-grade class at St. Andrew Catholic School in Florida with Betsy Devos, Gov. Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner and Ivanka. According to the pool report, Trump told one girl who wanted to start her own business, “That’s a good idea. Make a lot of money, right? …
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Amazon’s Alexa can already hail an Uber, order a pizza and organize your shopping list. Now she’s funding a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Amazon announced a partnership with the university Thursday to support a doctoral student at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Language and Speech Processing. Amazon’s Alexa is Amazon’s digital assistant, …
Tens of millions of people around the world own devices they can talk to, that can provide answers to spoken questions and can perform tasks as vocally instructed – and that can talk back. Think about this for a second. Machines that mimic human behavior have been a dream – and, sometimes, a nightmare – …
James Gillespie Crunch Network Contributor A 25-year veteran of the automation business, Jim Gillespie is the co-founder of Gray Matter Systems, an operations management firm. An engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Jim earned his MBA from Duquesne University. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is creating huge opportunities in the water and wastewater industries, …
Home automation is a growing trend with its roots in decades old wired technology. It is quickly becoming a child of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. While many of its components still host wired connections like their ancestors, much of the recent innovation is linked via AI-based virtual assistants. Here’s a look at some of the …
Privacy breaches and cybersecurity failures are becoming – it pains me to say – all too commonplace. However, that doesn’t mean some of them are not uncommonly strange, involving circumstances so odd they are almost unbelievable. Consider the following tale of two images (which may be worth more than two thousand words for the pair). First, consider the …
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Cisco Blog > Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Stephanie Gaspar – March 3, 2017 – 0 Comments Guest Blogger: Shilpa Kholhatkar, Senior Business Development Manager, IoT Systems Group Shilpa is responsible for driving the growth of Cisco’s IoT products across major verticals such as Manufacturing, Energy, Transportation and Public Sector. She has a unique profile that …
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Amazon has introduced a Door Lock API that allows internet-connected lock providers to enable their locks to lock and eventually unlock doors with Amazon Alexa. The Door Lock API is part of Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit, a collection of APIs and tools that developers can use to add skills to Alexa, the voice-activated intelligent assistant …
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