When it comes to smart home technology, most consumers are aware of it, most don’t have any and almost all of those who do are quite happy with it. One in four (26%) consumers own a smart home product but there is excitement about the future of home tech in daily lives of consumers, based […]
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Dive Brief: Starbucks is enabling limited availability of voice-driven ordering and payment through the My Starbucks Barista artificial intelligence feature on its iOS mobile application, and also has launched a Starbucks Reorder Skill via Amazon’s Alexa marketplace that allows users to order Starbucks items by voice through their Alexa digital assistant-enabled devices. The mobile effort is
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Those of you building Internet of Things projects may be interested in a new double stack mini PC which has been created specifically for IoT applications and takes the form of the Virtualette V1, which has been created by SRKH Designs based in Sydney Australia. The tiny double stack mini PC supports both Android and
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Smart home gadgets are both changing how we go about our daily lives in our own homes and also how we operate as a community, looking after others using this new tech. Mobility aid experts, Ability Superstore wanted to explore how this technology could also make a huge difference to the lives of those who
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TopSpin Security is helping better secure enterprise internet of things (IoT) deployments by using a new offering called DECOYnet, a deception technology solution aimed at fooling hackers. The new solution emulates an enterprise’s unique IoT systems so that hacker’s movements will be delayed and IT can receive a tripped alarm and alerts. Yoel Knoll, VP of marketing
Starbucks previously introduced its mobile app where you can pre-order drinks and just pick them up at the nearest branch stated by the app. But if using your fingers to place your coffee order is a bit too much for you, the coffeeshop is now letting you order through a voice chat in the My
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Reuters/Jacky Naegelen Starbucks is putting its own spin on the virtual assistant. The popular coffee franchise has rolled out a Siri-like assistant app for mobile that lets you skip baristas and place orders by chatting or speaking directly to your phone. The feature essentially works as an extension of the Mobile and Pay functionality Starbucks
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Amazon is great at giving away free stuff. One look at the Amazon Prime benefits list will tell you that. Even with their cloud infrastructure initiative, Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers free tiers with nearly every major product. And now, Amazon Alexa Voice Service APIs can be used by developers to integrate the smart voice
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Illustration by The Project Twins Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying. “I was in western Massachusetts and getting these alerts on my phone,” says Turner, who manages an evolutionary-biology laboratory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Freezers
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IoT is a web of physical devices connected to the Internet, enabled by sensors and software to collect and transmit data. Using IoT users can collect massive amount of data and convert into meaningful information by with the help of advance analytics techniques.The concept of IoT has evolved with the introduction of automated machines, such