Welcome to the Cortana Skills Tech Community!
Greetings everyone & Welcome to the Cortana Developer community!
Just over 3 months ago at Build 2017, we announced the public preview of the Cortana...
Summoning Actual Fire, or Other Automations, When the Bomb Goes Off in CS:GO via...
A few years back, I wrote about integrating my dumb gas fireplace into Home Assistant using a Wemos D1 Mini. A few weeks ago...
Netgear Orbi Voice review: It’s not the best smart speaker, but it’s an excellent...
Netgear’s Orbi WiFi System (model RBK50) has been our top home router pick for more than two years, so we were intrigued when we...
Apple Confirms Acquisition of Self-Driving Vehicle Startup Drive.ai
Apple purchase Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup based out of Mountain View, the company confirmed to Axios today.
Apple has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers,...
Amazon’s latest Echos show the smart home space hitting its stride
Amazon’s Echo lineup got a refresh earlier this year that included a brand new version of its basic Echo, well as an Echo...
Introducing New Alexa Healthcare Skills
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Alexa Skills Kit now enables select Covered Entities and their Business Associates, subject to the U.S....
Alexa, Why Are Employees Looking at My Data?
Craig Lloyd
Everyone’s been talking about Bloomberg’s report that Amazon workers are listening to the voice recordings created when you speak to Alexa. But Amazon...
[Update: Not live] Android Auto redesign with dark theme begins rolling out
Just before I/O 2019, Google unveiled a complete overhaul of Android in cars. Featuring a dark theme, persistent media controls, and new navigation bar,...
Google redesigning buttons, dropdowns, and other Chrome controls for touch, accessibility
Users on the web interact with checkboxes, dropdown menus, and other UI elements on a regular basis. Google is now redesigning these HTML form...
Here’s how the Google Assistant became more helpful in 2018
In 2018, the Google Assistant learned to speak new languages (Nǐ hǎo!), expanded to new regions (like the Netherlands, Indonesia and Turkey), and became...
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Home Control 2019 and ESP-GO
Introduction (Latest update April 03, 2019)
Minor update here - I've gone back to SDK 2.1 for now.
Sick of reading about other people’s home control?...
IoT news of the week for March 15, 2019
Congress is back on IoT security bills: Maybe we won’t get any meaningful data privacy legislation, it appears that the US House and the US...
Ring debuts new indoor/outdoor security cameras and LED lighting
Ring has a few new products on display at CES 2018, including a new version of its Stick Up Cam security camera, and...
