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The Thermostat Continues
I’m too deeply buried in R&D right now to fully develop another article on my thermostat but here is some info to add to...
Home Security
Use Smart Sensors to Optimize Your Home Automation Scenes
We’ve spoken about Z Wave before, but now we’re going to get into a little more detail on the usefulness and practicality of home...
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How Apple’s Culture of Secrecy Poses Challenges for the New Work From Home Reality
Apple employees in Silicon Valley and other parts of the world have been working from home since early March, and a new report from...
This cheaper-than-ever Kindle for Kids bundle helps children learn to love reading
Kindles have long been a choice e-reader for anyone who likes to read, and the kids version brought all its finer features to a...
Getting started: Playing short audio clips & composing speech responses in your Cortana Skill
In this blog post we will see how Cortana skills can play short audio clips and compose the Text-to-Speech(TTS) responses that Cortana speaks on...
IoT news of the week for April 5, 2019
Predix puts manufacturing data in the cloud: GE has announced a new product that allows companies with multiple factories to consolidate data from those factories...
Voice Assistants
Insignia Google Assistant speakers add constant temperature indicators under clock face
Google Assistant speakers come in all shapes and sizes, and one of the few with a clock displayed comes from Best Buy’s Insignia brand....
More Android TV devices add full voice control via Google Assistant, Home following Nvidia...
Last year the Nvidia Shield, Android TV’s flagship offering, added full control via Google Assistant. Now, Android TV as a whole seems to be...
Microsoft and Xiaomi to collaborate on AI, cloud computing and hardware
After Microsoft signed a deal to test Windows 10 on Xiaomi devices in 2015 and then Xiaomi bought a trove of patents to...
Amazon’s Alexa now handles patient health information
Today, Amazon announced that six health care companies and providers will allow customers to access some of their personalized medical information by...
Google hardware. Designed to work better together.
This year marks Google’s 20th anniversary—for two decades we’ve been working toward our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible...
Smart Devices
Meet Sonos Beam Soundbar – Sonos’ Latest Smart Speaker for both...
Sonos announced the Sonos Beam “soundbar” yesterday for the ultimate in in-home audio experience. The compact, smart soundbar is due out next month for...