The home security market is at the beginning of a boom that is being driven by technological advances. Growing crime and cybercrime rates are also driving the expansion in home security. The rise of internet-connected smart homes will intersect with the growing cyber security market, which is on track to reach $1 trillion by 2021, …

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Amazon has launched a new contest, with over $40,000 in prizes,  asking developers to create new skills for Alexa that makes life more enjoyable, organized, and/or convenient. Can this work? As we reported recently, see The State Of Voice As UI, Amazon’s Alexa is currently the most talked up technology currently available. The Voice Lab reports …

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Towards the end of 2016, a series of massive DDoS attacks took out some of the internet’s biggest websites, including PayPal, CNN, Reddit, Github, Netflix, Twitter, and many others. The attack billed as one of the biggest in the history of the internet, was carried out through botnets believed to have originated from IoT devices. …

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If you use Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, you likely command the voice-based platforms to do things like play music, turn on the lights, or set a timer. Now there’s a new player in the market that wants to take those conversations to another level. Voysis, which launches today with $8 million in funding, is …

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Ford’s experts in Aachen, Germany, are working with engineers from the RWTH University to research new ways of using microphones in automobiles.