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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“North America is expected to hold the largest market share in the IoT managed services market” Internet of things (IoT) managed services market categorizes the global market by service type as infrastructure management, security management, network management, data management, device management, by vertical, and by region. According to report “Internet of Things (IoT) Managed Services
Proposals to tax robots have been debated by serious folks recently. The European Union considered but ultimately rejected the idea of taxing firms that use robots. And last week Quartz published an interview with Bill Gates in which he argues for a robot tax. These proposals follow a spate of recent articles on robots and
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Mobile World Congress, the premier wireless-technology conference in Barcelona, was supposed to be a coming out party for Google’s digital assistant. But at this year’s proceedings, the artificially intelligent voice-based service struggled to be heard above the din of an army of rival assistants that will soon jostle for attention on smartphones. As the event
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Advertisement The recent hacking predicament that Spiral Toys endured was not the first toy-based hacking problem of late. Seemingly innocent and innovative toys have recently been under investigation with regards to their ability to breach data and privacy at the least and a full-blown hacking dilemma at the worst. From the CloudPets hacking incident to Hello
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Amazon Spy Amazon is reportedly working on a smart security camera based on an image spied on its own web server. The snap appeared on AFTVnews with a headline indicating that the home security camera may be integrated with Alexa. The device is cleanly designed, with the characteristic white and blue coloring many expect from
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Digital and physical worlds have been two different streams for quite a long time but with the advancement of technology, the boundaries between these two worlds are blurring into non-existence. These two worlds are interwoven so minutely that now they support various technological and industrial activities seamlessly. In context to this costs are reducing and
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Enlarge Image Line You may not have heard of it, but Line is one of the world’s biggest messaging apps. Now the Japanese company is getting into the AI game. Line is teaming up with parent-company Naver, a South Korean search giant, to create an artificial intelligence platform called Clova. The company announced its plans
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Students at Waterloo working on an Amazon Alexa Echo device Amazon’s Alexa is one of the most popular voice-controlled artificially-intelligent digital assistants out there, but there’s still work to be done on improving her. That’s why Amazon has set up the Alexa Fund Fellowship, a program for students meant to push forward the technology and
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The Internet of Things is a powerful technological force. So many devices and activities in our personal and professional lives are connected to it—from smartphones and activity trackers to huge manufacturing centers and medical devices, more and more things are being connected to the IoT every day and transforming how we live and work. At
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