How to Use Your Google Home Hub as a Digital Photo Frame
Josh Hendrickson
The Google Home Hub is exceptional for controlling smarthomes, checking weather and news, and setting alarms or timers. But, if you don’t have...
How to Debug Errors for Custom Alexa Skills
While building an Alexa skill, you may run into issues when Alexa says, “There was a problem with the requested skill’s response” (for the...
[Update: Fixed] Google Nest outage takes down Thermostat, Cam live video, and apps
A router failure saw some Google services briefly slow or go down yesterday, but was quickly resolved. Google Nest users this afternoon are encountering...
Alexa Skill Developers Can Now Optimize Their Experiences for Alexa Auto Vehicles and Devices
Published Alexa skills are automatically available on all Alexa-enabled devices. However, tailoring your skill interface for unique settings or devices helps you provide...
The Google Home Hub is almost half off today
Google’s Home Hub smart display usually costs $149, but Rakuten is where you’ll be able to find it for far less. The...
Amazon May Join Spotify in Offering Ad-Supported Free Music Tier
Amazon is in talks to launch a free, ad-supported music service, reports Billboard. Amazon currently offers an Amazon Music Unlimited service with 50 million...
Hands-On With Apple’s New Second-Generation AirPods
Apple's second-generation AirPods, announced last week, started showing up on people's doorsteps this morning and also became available for purchase in Apple retail stores....
How to get Z-Wave smart blinds working with Alexa
This week’s IoT Podcast Hotline call comes from Joe, who has Graber smart blind motors in his house. They work fine with his Wink...
Adversarial Training Produces Synthetic Data for Machine Learning
Sentiment analysis is the attempt, computationally, to determine from someone’s words how he or she feels about something. It has a host of applications,...
Amazon is giving workers a letter to prove they are doing an ‘essential’ job
As a growing list of states order “nonessential” businesses closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, Amazon is giving warehouse and delivery...
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Us’ voice assistant scene plays off a real 911 problem for smart speakers
If you haven’t seen Jordan Peele’s new horror movie Us, I apologize for spoiling one minor plot point: the film features a smart speaker....
AI song mastering service Landr now offers musicians multiple mastering styles
Landr, a website that uses AI to master songs, can now master music in multiple sonic styles. The new options allow musicians...
Make Your Smart Home Secure
In this piece, we will teach you how to make your smart home secure. Smart home security can be considered across more categories than...
