As Amazon, Apple and others tee up smart home strategies with apps, hubs and new devices, Google is also turning up the temperature, so to speak, on its own ambitions. Today, Nest — the smart home business that Google acquired for $3.2 billion a few years ago — announced at DLD in Munich that it […]

No one wants to call CES 2017 the year of autonomous cars…because they aren’t here just yet. But 2017 marks the year where the consumer electronics industry is gearing up for their arrival. At the Nissan keynote given by Carlos Ghosn, it was revealed that ProPilot would be coming to the next Nissan Leaf. This

Woman uses her smart phone to control temperature of her smart home. Photo Credit: asiseeit / Getty Images Israel Without taking the proper steps to build a secure smart home environment, we leave the public at risk. So is 2017 the year that we take security seriously? &nbspYoav Avidor13 hours ago With the advancement of

Microsoft has strengthened its artificial intelligence push with its latest acquisition of Canada based AI startup Maluuba. The acquisition will see Microsoft working towards machine reading and writing – an endeavour that has been the vision of Malubba – to advance toward a more general artificial intelligence by creating literate machines that can think, reason

Smart home gadgets were everywhere at the CES trade show in January, from useful iterations on connected light bulbs and door locks to odder endeavors such as fridge cams and connected trash cans. But one theme was constant: They’re not all going to work together. While some of these devices can communicate with others, no

Amazon Alexa will receive hundreds of new commands. It seems that the Amazon is starting to feel the pressure in the home assistant market because of the recently release Google Home. However, the company is keen on putting on a fight. It has recently announced that it will add hundreds of commands to Alexa. When

LG Electronics will adopt voice-recognition technologies for all of its air-conditioners from next year, the firm’s home appliance chief said at the launch event Monday. “We will adopt voice-recognition technology for all of our air conditioners to be unveiled from next year. We are taking into account partnerships with outside technologies such as (Apple’s) Siri

Amazon.com has recently confirmed it shipped over a billion items this holiday season. Recent estimates are predicting that the online retail juggernaut post its 2016 revenue of roughly $137 billion, good for year-over-year growth of 28%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Amazon just confirmed its best-selling product in 2016 was one of its own making: its none other