Alexa is entering a contested field that has drawn an increasing number of digital hopefuls: Election coverage. Amazon.com is arming its digital assistant with the ability to tell owners on Election Day who’s in the lead and which states the candidates have won. The move comes amid an upsurge of hunger for political news in […]
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from the security-as-a-distant-afterthought dept We’ve increasingly covered how the “internet of poorly secured things” has contributed to a rise in larger DDoS attacks than ever before. The barely-there security standards implemented by companies more interested in hype than quality meant it didn’t take long before hackers were able to incorporate “smart” refrigerators, power outlets, TVs
Cisco’s Chuck Robbins spoke at the Tuesday evening keynote at Gartner Symposium 2016 in Orlando. Image: Jason Hiner/TechRepublic Cisco recently changed its brand promise to: “We securely connect everything to make anything possible.” It was CEO Chuck Robbins that added “securely” to the sentence. He got pushback from his team, who worried that it might
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Intel alarmed investors on Tuesday when it lowered its Data Center forecast for the year to be in the “high single digits” growth range – down from its previous forecast of double digit growth. The forecast, which was lowered in part because of weak enterprise sales within the Data Center group, raised red flags among
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Now, the company is casting aside the Nexus name in favor of Pixel, a brand that Osterloh said has “always represented the best of hardware and software designed by Google”. Currently, Verizon Wireless is the only U.S. carrier to offer new Google smartphones. The latest version of the Android operating system, Nougat 7.1 was hardly
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Google’s Pixel phone doesn’t hit shelves until Thursday but it’s already earned a big fan. Wired’s very own gadget guru David Pierce has said the Pixel has caused him alter his default answer to the question, ‘what phone should I get?’ Where he use to simply respond ‘get an iPhone,’ Google’s got him saying ‘buy a Pixel.’
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REUTERS/Chris Morgan It’s been touted as a technological revolution that will make things easier by connecting everything from your fridge to your toaster online. But there’s a darker side to the so-called Internet of Things: A massive army of infected IoT devices is one of the most effective ways to launch massive cyberattacks. “There’s so much enthusiasm for connected devices,”
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The truth is, businesses are blind to the world. While a company does what it can with evaluations, metrics, surveys and the like, these techniques only reveal so much information. They also take time. The Internet of Things is poised to change all that. Collecting data from hundreds, if not thousands, of sensors opens the
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Android in the Pixel XL seems fast and quite lovely with its clean, flat layer-based users interface. The bigger 5.5-inch Pixel XL starts at $769 for 32GB of storage. Google Assistant knows things and can test whether you know them too. So no, it does not have the “typically Nexus” looks that defined previous phones
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Intel reported on Tuesday a surprisingly good quarter by many measures, but the company’s shares dropped as much as 6% in after hours trading. Revenue increased 9% from last year to $15.8 billion while adjusted earnings per share jumped 21% to 80 cents. But Intel remains a company in the midst of a massive transition
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