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More than half of consumers believe it’s more likely someone could gain unauthorised access to their connected home smart device than to their physical home Recent global research from Norton by Symantec reveals one in five UK consumers have smart devices, and an overwhelming majority of them (84 per cent) find they simplify their life.
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Google wants you to program gadgets with Android. Now Qualcomm frees them from Wi-Fi. Qualcomm is liberating Google’s Android Things with some new chipset support. Its Snapdragon 210 chips will run the Android Things OS, making them the first potential Android Things-powered devices with built-in LTE. Android Things, which is still in a developer beta,
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The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq is the first car purpose-built to offer three different electric drivetrains and no gasoline-only engines. The hybrid Ioniq has the best mileage of any hybrid to date, 58 mpg combined, which tops the equivalent Toyota Prius by 2 mpg. With the electric-drive and plug-in hybrid Ioniqs, Hyundai is optimizing for maximum
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Advertisement If you’re not feeling well, help can come from an unlikely source. Your Amazon Echo can help you get better by providing medical advice using an app created by HealthTap, an online healthcare startup. Users of HealthTap will be able to use the app via the command “Alexa, talk to Dr. A.I.” Alexa will then
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Smart telemetry tags, Narrow Band IoT technology and seals: the perfect storm for an underwater Internet of Things (IoT) project at the University of St Andrews. It’s long been said that, compared to our knowledge of space, our understanding of the vast oceans that make up the majority of the planet’s surface is pretty limited. The oceans are
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Getting cellular devices certified for carriers’ networks is an expensive, complicated process that’s even harder in the new field of IoT. Smartphone and tablet makers have been dealing with certification for years, spending as much as US$1 million on the process for just one device, GlobalData analyst Avi Greengart says. It’s gotten harder as carriers
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HPE’s visual on securing the big data space with HPE SecureData. (Image courtesy of HPE.) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new Internet of Things (IoT) security solution, HPE SecureData for Hadoop and IoT.The solution integrates with Apache NiFi and employs HPE format-preserving encryption (FPE) in order to secure IoT dataflows and is now
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Smart Homes devices are slowly and steadily finding their place in our house and arguably add convenience to our lives. But in addition to the price you pay acquiring these smart assistants to give a modern feel to your home, they might also cost your privacy. Be it Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, Siri or Cortana
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