Amazon has added over 100 new voice commands for Alexa. Have you ever thought of buying Alexa, the virtual home assistant? Well, now you one more reason or rather 100 more reasons to buy the smart talking cylinder since Amazing announced new voice commands for the ever-popular virtual assistant. For those of you who have […]
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ENLARGE President Barack Obama speaks with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, former national security adviser Tom Donilon, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in the Oval Office on Feb. 17. Photo: Associated Press By Shane Harris Dec. 3, 2016 6:30 a.m. ET 0 COMMENTS The next U.S. administration should take immediate
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Intel and Amazon partner to advance smart home technology. Credit:Photo by David McNew/Getty Images The two tech giants Intel and Amazon are creating a partnership to extend natural language capabilities and develop the Smart Home ecosystem. Amazon & Intel Coming Together According to PC Mag, from Nest Learning Thermostat and Amazon Echo to the August Smart
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Sorry Apple fans, but Oppenheimer senior analyst Andrew Uerkwitz thinks the Cupertino giant does not have what it takes to lead the tech industry. Uerkwitz even issued a brutal note to talk about “strategic issues” in Tim Cook’s company. In the note that was obtained by Business Insider on Friday, Uerkwitz wrote that he and the
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At Amazon’s Web Services conference re:Invent this week, the retail giant announced it is teaming up with Intel for a smart speaker reference design with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to help with tasks. The device is meant to help other companies make their own gadgets using Amazon’s voice tech and Intel’s platform. Developers will be able to
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One of surprising successes in recent times is the Amazon Echo, a speaker with Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa built into it. The device has been received pretty well and so far it seems that many users are reacting positively to it, so much so that it has since spawned various devices like the Amazon Tap
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In the race to win clients in the highly competitive cloud computing market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken to transporting client data in high-tech tractor trailers. AWS recently introduced its data-on-wheels platform with the appropriate yuletide moniker of Snowmobile. ZDNet covered the recent launch of the data truck by AWS CEO Andy Jassy. He
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In April, President Obama officially formed the The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity to examine the country’s electronic vulnerabilities in the wake of high-profile hacks like that of the Office of Personnel Management in 2015. Today that commission finally wrapped up its duties and delivered a comprehensive report to the President (and the public) identifying
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Amazon wants Alexa to be in your home, and it wants Alexa to be the digital voice assistant that takes care of the majority of your IoT needs, but more to the point it wants Alexa to simply offer up new and meaningful functionality to consumers for smart, connected home use. Earlier this week, Amazon
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New ‘Internet of Things’ Class to Cover Rapidly Expanding Technology A new spring semester course offering at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) will provide students with an overview of the rapid changes happening in business and technology because of the proliferation of new devices connected to the Internet. Christopher Sedore The class, titled “Digital
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