It was really just a matter of time before WiFi startup Luma added Alexa functionality to its bag of tricks. After all, the hardware startup counts Amazon as among its biggest backers – and distributors. The functionality arrives today for the simple WiFi range extenders, bringing with it the ability to “pause the internet” via […]
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Suddenly, those scissors look better than ever If you’re a cable TV cord-cutter, it looks like there’s an interesting option on the horizon. According to Variety, AT&T is going to give streamers free Apple TVs and Amazon Fire TV Sticks with its new $35-per-month streaming TV service, which it will call DirecTV Now. Customers who
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Natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, can reek havoc on homes, causing extensive damage that’s expensive to fix. Notable storms such as the hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, along with the recent Louisiana flooding of historic proportions, have urged builders to turn their focus to storm proof homes with added security measures after seeing
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Light Reading’s Upskill U is a FREE, interactive, online educational resource that delivers must-have education on themes that relate to the overall business transformation taking place in the communications industry. NEXT COURSE Wednesday, November 9, 1:00PM ESTMANO 101Toby Ford, AVP, Cloud Technology, Strategy & Planning, AT&T UPCOMING COURSE SCHEDULE Friday, November 11, 1:00PM ESTOpen Source
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How does the latest smart speaker measure up to the competition? Our GH Institute took it for a test drive. Most Popular Courtesy of Google Created with Sketch. Nov 7, 2016 Google just fired its first shot in the smart speaker battle: Called Google Home ($129, store.google.com), the new device acts a lot like its
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Ubisoft took a traditional live brand event one step further recently. Inviting fans to an event, which was then hacked by others online. That’s the kind of hacker experience that Ubisoft Canada launched with its Live Dedsec Hack in support of the upcoming launch of Watch Dogs 2. The event invited game fans to an
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Whenever I try to watch the local TV affiliates from my iPhone when I’m not connected to Wi-Fi, I get the message that I must be connected to my home Wi-Fi network. That kind of defeats the purpose of a mobile app. I’m wondering if this is a licensing or a technical issue. Seems odd
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Control4 (CTRL) Rating In a research report sent to investors and clients on 7 November, Control4 (CTRL) stock In-line was maintained at Imperial Capital. They currently have a $12.0 target on the stock. Imperial Capital’s target indicates a potential upside of 5.73% from the company’s current stock price. About 143,470 shares traded hands. Control4 Corp
Internet-connected devices have proved vulnerable to hackers. Image: B Calkins/Shutterstock The internet of things is totally broken. Amateur hackers have managed to build huge botnets of compromised devices, and many of these machines are difficult or near-impossible for manufacturers to remotely keep up to date. But there’s another way to keep internet of things hackers
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Hackers are going to try and influence the U.S. election, and they’ll try to use you to do it. Two weeks ago an enormous distributed denial of service attack crashed the servers of Dyn, a domain name services company that lets users find their way around the internet. (As a brief recap, domain name services,
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