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TCL's kitchen-ready tablet adds Amazon Alexa integration

Television and consumer electronics manufacturer TCL recognizes the rise of personal voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, so the company has integrated the service into a tablet designed specifically for the kitchen. TCL’s Xess tablet is a massive 17.3-inch “smart home hub,” and aside from the new Alexa integration, it offers built-in dual 3-watt JBL speakers, […]

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Hacking Light Bulbs? New Study Exposes Weaknesses in the Internet of Things

In Brief Researchers have discovered some glaring weaknesses in some of our IoT devices that allow for worms to creep in and wreak havoc. White hat hackers allow companies to fix these loophole prior to people with more dastardly intentions finding them. An Old Enemy When we talk about computer attacks, we think about the

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How to facilitate the path to brownfield IoT development

As the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves toward becoming one of the fastest expanding sectors in the tech industry, a lot of focus is being given to greenfield development, the process of creating new devices from scratch. Many companies and startups are rushing to ship new connected products to store shelves in order to secure

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Alexa Voice Service, a singing fish, and the FABRIQ speaker

In my last post I discussed implementing Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service on a Raspberry Pi but you can also do the same on other platforms; witness AVS driving a hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass: Created by Brian Kane, a a teacher at Rhode Island School of Design, this is a wonderful rethink of a 20-year

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A Guy Put Amazon's 'Alexa' In Big Mouth Billy Bass' Body And People Are Rightly Horrified

So Big Mouth Billy Bass — you know, that animatronic singing fish that was annoyingly popular at the end of the 1990s — was, frankly, already pretty creepy. But one little modification brought it to new, disturbing heights. Brian “Wizard of Terror” Kane posted this lil’ video to Facebook on Oct. 27, which features a

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Someone took Amazon's Alexa speaker and a Big Mouth Billy Bass and literally created a monster

5 November 2016 7:06 PM While we’ve all been busy worrying about whether robots will eventually take over the world, or debating whether we’re all living in the Matrix, one man has taken everyday technology that we already know and love and created an actual monster. Developer Brad Kane managed to hack into his Alexa,

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Security Is Fast Becoming The Achilles Heel of Consumer Internet of Things

Despite increased consumer interest, new scenarios, and multi-million-dollar investments, Internet of Things is still struggling with one of the worst problems of the hi-tech industry – security. The recent DDoS attack on DynDNS where hackers exploited insecure cameras and DVRs is just an indication of what can potentially go wrong in the world of connected

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Putting Alexa on a Raspberry Pi

Every geek worth his nerdiness has wanted to be able to converse with their computer since we saw Star Trek’s Data Captain Kirk talk to the Enterprise’s computer back in the 1960s [my mistake regarding the correct character was pointed about with amazing swiftness by reader Mark Wing]. For most of the time since then, having

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Yamaha races to connect the things to the IoT

Japanese conglomerate Yamaha has launched its own Advanced Robotics Automation platform, a system that connects Internet of Things (IoT) and other devices together. The platform looks to lower the cost of automated production lines and provide more compatibility between IoT products, according to Yamaha. See Also: IIoT could boost GDP by $15 trillion, though data

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3D printed electronics on stickers could diversify IoT

Nov 5, 2016 | By Benedict Researchers at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new method for 3D printing high-performance electronic decals for Internet of Things applications. The method involves printing complex CMOS circuits using advanced nanofabrication techniques. Stickers can serve many purposes. For kids, filling up a

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