Collaborate Disseminate
Smart speakers have proliferated since their initial launch earlier this decade. The devices combine voice recognition and assistant functionality with a foreboding sense that paying corporations for the privilege of having your conversations eavesdropped upon could come back to bite one day. For this reason, [Yihui] is attempting to build …read more
According to some folks, smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Echo simply make us lazy while needlessly adding electronic complexity to our lives. Thanks to new research, however, the things may someday prevent people from dying of c… Continue reading Smart-speaker tool could prevent cardiac arrest deaths
Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss a recent lawsuit against Amazon for its privacy policies, a Telegram DDoS attack and more. Continue reading News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack
Amazon is launching a new Echo Dots Kids Edition based on the third-gen Echo Dot with new parental features, more.
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Cruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to …read more
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First announced in September 2018 for new Echo smart speakers, Alexa Guard is now available on all Echo speakers.
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Amazon whistleblowers supposedly say thousands of Alexa team members can see your precise location. But just two weeks ago, didn’t the company pinky-swear they couldn’t?
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Amazon today announced that its Alexa customers now have access to a free, ad-supported version of Amazon Music.
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The market researchers at Canalys claim that the smart speaker installed base will top 200 million globally by the end of 2019.
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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for April 15th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Amazon Echo’s recording controversy, a new mobile phone scam, and hotels leaking your private information. Protect your digital… Continue reading Amazon Echo Recording Controversy, New Mobile Phone Scam, Hotels Leaking Data