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Home Hub, Microsoft's answer to Alexa and Google Home, could be PC-driven

In 2014, Amazon’s Alexa kicked off the craze of putting stand-alone digital assistants in the home with its Echo device. Google Home followed suit in 2016, offering a similar device that responds to voice commands, but powered by Google Assistant and the company various other digital properties. Ever since Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant joined Apple’s Siri […]

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FCC's Wheeler details Internet of Things security strategy, role of interagency forum

Daily News Federal Communications Commission Chairman Thomas Wheeler has laid out a new strategy to address cybersecurity threats to the Internet of Things, calling upon an interagency cybersecurity forum to coordinate regulatory approaches around IoT cyber risk. In a letter to Congress dated Dec. 2, Wheeler outlines a multifaceted strategy leveraging voluntary stakeholder engagement, interagency

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Blink XT outdoor security camera goes on pre-order

We have been impressed, though left wanting for more, by Nest’s attempt at bringing its security camera to the great outdoors. Nest, however, is hardly the only game in town. Blink, which also has an indoor home security camera and cloud storage, is almost stepping out of its shell. Introducing the Blink XT, whose only

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Blockchain IoT startup Sensify Security joins Industrial Internet Consortium

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:52 AM UTC Sensify Security, a Palo Alto-based company that applies blockchain technology in cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently joined The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The company enables operators to control access

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My online journalism Masters course is changing its name. Here's why

MA student Alex Gamela took this image of the Telegraph newsroom during the first year of the MA My MA in Online Journalism has a new name: the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism. It’s still a course all about finding, publishing and distributing journalism online. So why the name change? Well, because what ‘online‘

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Germany's Software AG Adds Analytic Tools with Zementis Buyout

Software AG, a German software giant with 4,300 employees, has acquired San Diego-based Zementis, a specialist in machine learning and data science. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to a statement Friday, after the acquisition closed last week. Zementis CEO Michael Zeller co-founded the company in 2004 to help customers glean new insights from

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Hill-Rom subsidiary offers home BP monitoring

Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HRC) leaders announced Nov. 22 a subsidiary’s entrance into the connected home monitoring market with its new Welch Allyn Home™ Hypertension Program. According to the American Heart Association, one out of three adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure and approximately 46 percent of those don’t have their condition under control,

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Uber bets on artificial intelligence with acquisition and new lab

Comments Print Jeff Swensen/New York Times An Uber self-driving Ford Fusion rolled through the streets of Pittsburgh in September. By Mike Isaac New York Times December 06, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of

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Does a better Uber rider tracking app signal the rise of Big Brother in tech?

“Where are you?” It’s a question Uber drivers and passengers are all too familiar with in their attempts to coordinate a pickup location. The ride hailer hopes to solve this problem with a new policy that allows it to track a user’s location from the initiation of a trip up to five minutes after they reach

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No one is going to use Microsoft's answer to the Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo, a $200 device that sits on your kitchen counter and silently judges everything you say, has been a surprise hit with consumers. Google has rushed its own version to market, Apple is said to be working on something similar, and now it looks like Microsoft is going to half-heartedly join the fray.

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