In the Internet of Things, even the lowliest smart device can be used for a malicious purpose. Manufacturers take heed! If you’ve ever been irked by someone who has spent an entire shared meal staring at their phone, you know that social norms around technology are slow to catch up with our actual use of […]
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Alexa, the voice-activated virtual assistant housed within the Amazon Echo smart speaker, knows a ton of cool tricks, but she’s especially good at controlling smart lights. Turning them on and off and dimming them up and down whenever you ask her to was one of the first smart-home skills she ever mastered, and by now,
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According to a new report from TechCrunch, Apple is working to launch a new form for news consumption in iTunes. The company is apparently developing something it calls Spoken Editions, which are short clips that take writing from a variety of publishers and transform it into spoken word content… Spoken Editions were leaked on iTunes earlier
Rumors have already outed that Google’s new Pixel smartphone will sell for around $650. Now, a couple of sources have indicated that the company’s Google Home device will sell for $129, while the new 4k-capable Chromecast Ultra will be available for $69. Google Home was first announced back in May during Google’s I/O conference. The
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Gartner forecasted that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. In 2016, 5.5 million new things will get connected every day. Gartner estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will support total services spending of $235 billion in 2016,
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A majority of enterprises say the net of factors is strategic to their enterprise, but most nevertheless take a piecemeal strategy to IoT safety. Those outcomes from a international IDC survey carried out in July and August reveal each the guarantee and the expanding pains of IoT, a set of technologies that might support a
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SANTA CLARA >> AgShift, an agriculture technology company based here announced that it will move from private to public beta for its mobile-based Farm Data Intelligence Platform. The AgShift platform has been in private beta testing since May 2016, receiving positive reviews from local growers in Yolo, Marin and Sonoma counties. Miku Jha, Founder and
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The family of Alexa speakers is only getting smarter over time. The feature list is growing, as is the list of compatible smart home devices the Echo, Echo Dot and Tap can control. Among one of its many tricks, Alexa can also help you locate a misplaced phone in more ways than one. Of course,
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September 23, 2016 Share this content: Researchers noted a significant spike in new malware designed to target IoT devices. While the information stored in Internet of Things (IoT) devices is still valuable to attackers, Symantec researchers found they’re becoming less interested in targeting the victims and more interested in targeting the connected devices to add
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The results of an attack on the industrial internet of things could be as bad a Bhopal or Chernobyl, warn some the largest corporations in the world. A consortium of some of the largest multinational corporations in the world has published a guide to help its members and other companies ensure cybersecurity is top of
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