What is the Internet of Things (IoT) Anyways?
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Intel's forecast dampens enthusiasm for upbeat third-quarter results
SANTA CLARA — Semiconductor giant Intel on Tuesday said strength from its ongoing focus on data-center technologies and improvements in the PC market helped it report better-than-expected third quarter earnings and sales. However, Intel’s fourth-quarter sales outlook proved a disappointment to investors, who sent the company’s shares down by more than 5 percent in after-hours
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Intel Q3 Profit Rises – Update
Shutterstock photo (RTTNews.com) – Intel Corp. ( INTC ), the world’s biggest chipmaker, Tuesday reported an increase in profit for the third quarter that also beat estimates, as revenues increased driven by data center and internet of things business. Santa Clara, California-based Intel’s third-quarter profit rose to $3.38 billion or $0.69 per share from $3.11
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10 things I hate about the Google Pixel's Assistant
Google Assistant is Google’s long-overdue response to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. It’s available by pushing the home button at the bottom of the new Google Pixel smartphones. It can send emails for you, recite your calendar events, open apps, tell jokes, play games with you, translate words, turn on music, provide information about movies showing
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Microsoft researchers crack voice recognition barrier
A screenshot of the Cortana app.(Photo: Microsoft) San Francisco — As handy as all our voice recognition friends are, conversing with them still feels you’re talking to a foreign relative. Whether its Siri (Apple) or Alexa (Amazon) or Google Assistant or Cortana (Microsoft), each requires the human to speak in slow, articulated phrases to increase the odds
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Denon HEOS multi-room audio platform to get Alexa voice control
Premium audio specialist Denon this week announced a partnership with Amazon to integrate Alexa voice control in its HEOS wireless multi-room sound platform. Arriving in Q1 2017, the move will enable HEOS users to control their speakers using natural speech instead of the HEOS app via an iOS, Android or Amazon Fire device. With the skill enabled, they will be
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New Offerings From Honeywell and Ecobee Show That Smart Thermostats Are Getting Cheaper
Nearly six years ago, before Nest Labs had even come out of stealth mode, a Wi-Fi-connected smart thermostat hit Home Depot shelves for $99. At the time, it was an incredibly competitive price point. Fancier versions of connected thermostats with underlying software, such as ecobee, retailed for approximately $500. Now, high-end thermostats are coming down
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Google launches campaign for Nest
Dive Brief: Google has released a new TV campaign as well as a new slogan, “We Heart Home,” for its Nest product line of smart home devices according to AdAge. The new slogan is meant to promote the flagship Nest Thermostat, smoke and carbon monoxide detector and the Nest Cam, designed for both indoor and
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You've Got A Friend In Me: Our Changing Relationship With A.I.
Since Siri first stepped into our lives in 2011, we’re being introduced to more and more digital assistants. We’ve met Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google’s Google Now. We know them, but do we love them? Apparently, it’s important that we bond with said digital assistant, and snappy comebacks appear to be the surest path
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Nadella: 'Windows is the most open platform there is'
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was a keynote speaker at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2016. Image: Jason Hiner/TechRepublic When Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, he asked what the company’s place in the world is, and how it could make the biggest contribution. What he kept coming back to was that the company builds things
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