As consumer devices become more capable, with voice control assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google’s Assistant, it is only natural to expect these artificial intelligence (AI) applications to move into more business settings. These capabilities could emerge in a number of areas, such as voice control-style interfaces on common productivity […]

If you’re looking to turn your existing home appliances into smart home appliances, the iDevices Smart Home Essentials Kit has pretty much everything you need. It comes with three light sockets and seven plug-in switches that are Wi-Fi enabled and can be controlled from a smartphone without the need for a Belkin WeMo Insight Switch

Over the summer, smart lock maker August announced its first integration with Amazon’s smart home assistant Alexa. It was pretty basic – letting users check whether unit was locked or not. Naturally, people wanted to know, for better or worse, when they’d actually be able to unlock their front door with the sound of their

Last September, Marcus, a 31-year-old resident of Springfield, Missouri, discovered a flaw with Apple’s HomeKit, the iPhone maker’s program for hooking up smart home gadgets in iOS. Marcus had outfitted his entire house with an array of HomeKit-approved lights, thermostats and door lock. The setup was all controllable with an iPad sitting in his living room that he could talk to

SAN FRANCISCO — In a world where data drives business, political and military decisions, falsified data has become a weapon, Intel Security Group head Christopher Young told the RSA Conference here this week. Credit: Jamesteohart/Shutterstock More Credit: Jamesteohart/Shutterstock “Data drives decisions, but decisions drive world history.  Stolen and manipulated data was used to hijack our