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Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.
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What’s the best way to measure the depth of a well using a smartphone? If you’re fed up with social media, you might kill two birds with one stone and …read more Continue reading Measuring a Well with Just a Hammer and a Smartphone
Back in the last century, especially in the ’40s to the ’60s, one of the major home decor trends was to install various home appliances, like the television or stereo, …read more Continue reading A More Conspicuous Computer Assistant
As we have seen time and time again, not every device stores our sensitive data in a respectful manner. Some of them send our personal data out to third parties, …read more Continue reading Squeezing Secrets Out Of An Amazon Echo Dot
[Juan Nicola] has taken inspiration from the musician hackers of old and re-purposed a reel-to-reel tape recorder into a tape-echo for his guitar with a built-in valve amplifier (video in …read more Continue reading Making a Tape Echo the Traditional Way
The most famous policeman in Nigeria is in hot water over his links to Hushpuppi, has your Amazon Echo been talking to itself, and can an AI girlfriend save your marriage?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winnin… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #265: The Nigerian supercop and Alexa vs. Alexa
It’s no secret that we really like circuit sculptures around here, and we never tire of seeing what creative ways people come up with to celebrate the components used to …read more Continue reading Sound and Light Play off Acrylic and Wire in This Engaging Circuit Sculpture
Much of the world appears to revolve around sports, and sports tracking is a pretty big business. So how do people keep up with their favorite team? Well, [Jackson] and …read more Continue reading An Overly Complicated Method of Tracking Your Favorite Sports Team
There’s a certain elite set of chips that fall into the “cold, dead hands” category, and they tend to be parts that have proven their worth over decades, not years. …read more Continue reading Classic Chip Line-Up Powers This Fun Dub Siren Synth
There are a bunch of newly minted millionaires this week, after it was announced that Stack OverFlow would be acquired for $1.8 billion by European tech investment firm Prosus. While …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 6, 2021