Most current and emerging technologies can’t actually be seen. That’s why the art department here at MIT Technology Review often depicts them with illustrations. Take deep learning: what on Earth does that look like? Not only is it a complex concept to grasp (for me at least), but there isn’t yet a common visual vocabulary […]
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Specs and features you need to know about Amazon Alexa and Google Home ( UrAvgConsumer/YouTube Screenshot ) Retailers have great Christmas sale and consumers who want to have a pair of smart speakers are having a hard time deciding which to buy – Amazon Alexa or Google Home. The former has been inside hundreds of
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They won’t bear Google or Pixel branding, though. Google said it wouldn’t sell its own in-house smartphones, then it introduced the Pixel. The search giant may be following a similar pattern with its wearables plan: following earlier rumors of a Google-branded Android Wear device, The Verge reported this week that the first Android Wear 2.0
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Staff report Amazon’s entry into the competition for your living room has a new skill. Now the Echo device can read your local news to you, in addition to adjusting the lights, checking weather and playing music. GateHouse Media, the owner of the Herald-Tribune, has joined with Amazon to add the skill to Amazon’s Echo, Echo
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Google Home is currently the only contender that’s able to do battle with the Amazon Echo. After living with one for about a month, I’ve found Google’s search capabilities give it some key advantages over Alexa. However, when it comes to the home digital assistant game that’s only part of the equation. In order for
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CNEThas devised a feature that matches consumers with smart home devices and a connected home platform. The Smart Home Matrix feature matches over 100 different smart devices, including lighting, thermostats and locks, with connected home platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomeKit. Consumers can use the tool to check which smart lock is
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ENLARGE The slingshot Caroline Dohack bought for her husband wrapped beneath their tree. Photo: Caroline Dohack By Laura Stevens Laura Stevens The Wall Street Journal CANCEL Biography @laurastevenswsj laurastevens11 Google+ [email protected] Dec. 23, 2016 10:42 a.m. ET 0 COMMENTS Caroline Dohack found the perfect surprise Christmas gift for her husband on Amazon’s website this year:
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[embedded content]I first met Vesper CEO Matt Crowley around this time last year. Crowley said his startup had developed a prototype of a piezoelectric MEMS microphone that, he told me, was going to revolutionize the way mobile devices hear. Eventually, he said, every smart phone would have eight or more of these little microphones on
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IoT broadens attack surface of smart cities By Karen Epper Hoffman Dec 23, 2016 Cybersecurity attacks are scary enough, but what happens when they start coming from unexpected sources to attack the underlying infrastructure of cities? It may sound like the plot of a Philip K. Dick novel, but headlines in recent months have decried
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from the teledildonics dept The internet of really broken things is raising no limit of privacy questions. As in, companies are hoovering up personal data on smart-device usage, often transmitting it (unencrypted) to the cloud, then failing to really inform or empower consumers as to how that data is being used and shared. Though this
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