Unpopular Service? Amazon’s Solution Is To Make People Pay Now For It
There was a request for a round up of all the security nightmares unleashed upon us this week we missed in Insecurity Corner, from systemd doing horrible things to...
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Amazon Ring And Alexa Caught Being Very Naughty
***Updated*** You may have some concerns about the security of two of the more popular Amazon IoT products, Ring and Alexa but as it turns out you were nowhere near worried…
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Siri, Ask Alexa To See If Cortana Knows Why Voice Assistants Aren’t All That?
Recall Amazon's Dash buttons? They were a handy way to order laundry soap and other basic needs by pushing a button you stuck onto a handy surface, abandoned not long after it's…
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Go With Your Gut, Alexa’s Hunches
Is Alexa not involved in your life enough? Do you feel that she could pay even more attention to your activities around your home? Perhaps, even keep an ear out on the…
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Resistance Is Futile, Your IoT Standards Will Be Absorbed
For better or worse, the various companies which have been battling for supremacy have come to a finale which does not leave a clear victor, instead we will see a conglomeration of…
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Is It Paranoia If Everything Really Is Listening To You?
If you have always had a sneaking suspicion that Amazon's and Google's voice assistants are spying on you, you may well be right. Apart from the previous worries about practices the actual…
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A Phone Controlled Keyboard Isn’t Tacky, It’s ThermalTake!
Have you ever wished your phone and keyboard were better friends, and not in a Blackberry way? Thermaltake's Level 20 RGB mechanical keyboard might just be for you then, as it allows…
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Lenovo Unleashes Smart Devices with Alexa and Google Assistants
While Lenovo’s desktop displays and mobile PCs got most of the attention at CES earlier this month, the company also took the wraps off a number of smart devices for...
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Satya Nadella spotted heading into the woods with a shovel and dufflebag
It has been an interesting week to be Microsoft, as they have had to suggest to their user base that they might be better off moving to a competitor's product. Sebastian has…
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Why won’t anyone believe there really are subliminal messages corrupting young digital assistants?
Some of us are old enough to remember when certain parties were convinced there were subliminal messages in the music which kids listened to which they creatively blamed for a wide variety…
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Play nicely children; Google and Amazon having trouble with that sharing thing
Google has decided that YouTube should not work as advertised on any Amazon devices, in retaliation to Amazon refusing to stream Amazon Prime Video over Google Cast nor sell Google devices online. …
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CES 2017: First 4K TVs Powered by Amazon Fire TV Announced
In a market packed with UHD TVs, a trio of budget television manufacturers have introduced new Amazon Fire TV-powered 4K televisions at CES, with new models announced from Seiki, Westinghouse, and Element.…
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CES 2017: Lenovo’s Smart Assistant, Smart Storage, and Multimedia Controller
Lenovo is announcing a trio of new connected devices beginning with the Amazon Alexa-powered Smart Assistant. “The Lenovo Smart Assistant with Amazon Alexa is like having your own digital assistant at...
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