Google Assistant and, therefore Google Home and the Pixel, are about to become way, way smarter. That’s because Google officially launched its Google Assistant API on Thursday, which will allow developers to build support right into their apps and services. According to Ars Technica, Google’s API works a bit differently than Amazon. To tap into a third-party […]
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Microsoft clearly missed an opportunity here; just look at GE Lighting’s new LED table lamp (yes, that what it’s being called now). It looks just like the Cortana ring that you would find within Windows 10 or Windows 10 Mobile (or perhaps like one of those hipster Dyson fans). But instead, the GE LED table
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The evolution of connected devices can be traced to early Internet days and e-commerce’s emergence. Since the early 2000s, the physical product world has morphed at a rapid pace, as consumers shifted behavior to online commerce and entertainment. Smartphones and the ubiquity of wireless networks arose to replace desktops as the primary point of consumer
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CLEVELAND, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — GE is working to unleash the ultimate living experience through a suite of connected products designed to make your life simpler and help you do more. First on that journey is a contemporary LED table lamp that embeds Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) directly inside, allowing you to use a
CLEVELAND, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — GE is working to unleash the ultimate living experience through a suite of connected products designed to make your life simpler and help you do more. First on that journey is a contemporary LED table lamp that embeds Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) directly inside, allowing you to use a
Our MyQ technology uses industry-standard encryption, up-to-date security techniques, and periodic security testing with respected outside services to keep users’ information safe. Using LiftMaster to Contro Your Smart Home Juan Lopez | LiftMaster Can any home really be made into a “smart” home? How can a homeowner connect their home without spending a fortune? Yes,
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“Where are you?” It’s a question Uber drivers and passengers are all too familiar with in their attempts to coordinate a pickup location. The ride hailer hopes to solve this problem with a new policy that allows it to track a user’s location from the initiation of a trip up to five minutes after they reach
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A new open-source connector enables businesses to build IoT applications that gather and make sense of mountain of data from disparate sources. Building an Azure-backed internet of things (IoT) application that uses the popular open-source Apache Kafka stream ingestion technology just got easier.Like RabbitMQ, Kafka is considered an IoT application building block for enterprises. It
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Addressing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web services offline and security concerns introduced by the so-called “Internet of Things” (IoT) should be top cybersecurity priorities for the 45th President of the United States, according to a newly released blue-ribbon report commissioned by President Obama. “The private sector and the Administration should collaborate on a roadmap for improving the
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Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. The Nest thermostat is an Internet-connected device. Security technologist Bruce Schneier says while Internet-enabled devices have immense promise, they are vulnerable to hacking. George Frey, Getty Images More and more of the
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