(TNS) — RALEIGH — Cumberland County’s state Rep. John Szoka and state Sen. Wesley Meredith filed legislation this week that aims to bring high speed internet to communities that lack it. “We have a lot of people that do not have access to broadband. We need to have that,” Meredith said. Szoka and Meredith’s proposed …
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The whole idea of the internet of things is to connect more things, including devices far from a company’s data centers or maintenance crews. For enterprises that have devices all over the world, vendors and service providers are starting to look at the big picture. At Mobile World Congress later this month, Nokia will show …
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Enlarge Image Screenshot by Brian Bennett/CNET You no longer need a $130 Google Home to take full advantage of the search giant’s connected tech. Teased a couple of weeks ago via a blog post, the Google Assistant on the company’s own Pixel phones will now be able to control your smart home with a voice …
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Dan Noble, my father, was 27 years old when he was medically discharged from the Army. Years of physical training, running with a 50lb rucksack on his back, and the slow erosion of his spinal disks from Degenerative Disc Disease finally took their toll. Over time, Dad’s spine had degraded the protective area between nerve and bone. …
According to The NDP Group, US dollar sales of home automation products for last year experienced growth of 57% compared to 2015. Product categories are led by security and monitoring which accounted for more than 60% of the dollar share. Smart entry devices including smart doorbells saw an increase in unit and dollar sales of …
A screen shot from a website provided by the Finnish elevator company Kone, of its elevator in Illinois talking to it via the cloud. (Photo: Kone) SAN FRANCISCO — There’s paint drying and then there’s listening to elevators talk, both calming and now both available online. This week the Finnish elevator company Kone launched a website showing four …
For true technology aficionados things obviously cannot move forward fast enough. We would like to see the coming year fulfilling all the promises of the latest digital revolution. We want the technology to relieve us, advise us, drive us around, pamper and protect us. We want our environment and our appliances to think with us, …
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Whether you’re preparing to buy a new home, to carry out full scale renovations of your existing home, or you’re designing your home from scratch, there are a lot of things to think about and a lot of things that can potentially slip through your fingers. Room layouts and sizes, building materials, colours, windows, doors, …
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As the 2017 CES showed earlier this year, elements of the Internet of Things such as self-driving cars and smart everything are (still) the future. However, aside from the countless gadgets, appliances and electronics was something more interesting: the display of logos below the devices that signified which systems they work with, representing all the …
Sarah Tew/CNET Laptop trends come and go. We’ve lived through netbooks, ultrabooks and even stereoscopic 3D laptops (yes, that was a thing for a while). Most don’t stick around for the long haul, so I originally approached Chromebooks with the same skepticism. The first couple of generations of Chromebooks were stripped-down laptops running Google’s Chrome …