Collaborate Disseminate
The team behind Amazon’s most successful hardware is apparently working on a new wearable device that will be able to recognize human emotions.
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On this week’s Threatpost news wrap, the team discusses Facebook’s FTC fine for its data security practices, a report that Amazon is collecting Echo users’ geolocation data, and more. Continue reading News Wrap: Amazon Echo Privacy, Facebook FTC Fines and Biometrics Regulation
Amazon is under fire for its privacy policies after a Bloomberg report revealed that the company hires auditors to listen to Echo recordings. Continue reading Amazon Auditors Listen to Echo Recordings, Report Says
Home assistants are continuously recording and constantly uploading details of your everyday life, and sometimes, these recordings can end up in the wrong hands. Continue reading Amazon Sent 1,700 Alexa Recordings to the Wrong Person
[Mathieu Stephan] has something new in the works, and while he isn’t ready to take the wraps off of it yet, he was kind enough to document his experience putting the mysterious new gadget through its paces inside an anechoic chamber. Considering the majority of us will never get inside of one of these rooms, much less have the opportunity to test our own hardware in one, he figured it was the least he could do.
If you’re not familiar with an anechoic chamber, don’t feel bad. It’s not exactly the sort of thing you’ll have at the local makerspace. …read more
A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any recordings an Echo device may have made around the time a horrific crime occurred. Continue reading Judge asks if Alexa is witness to a double murder
Last year, Amazon announced a new initiative, Alexa for Business, designed to introduce its voice assistant technology and Echo devices into a corporate setting. Today, it’s giving the platform a big upgrade by opening it up to device makers who are building their own solutions that have Alexa built in. The change came about based […] Continue reading Alexa for Business opens up to third-party device makers
Remember the Alexa-enabled PCs? They are back, now with free Echo Dots.
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If you are fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to play with an analogue-reel-to-reel tape recorder in a well-equipped studio, you probably looped the tape around to create an echo, or a delay in the audio. It was a desirable effect to have, but not a practical one for a guitar pedal or similar portable accessory. Silicon alternatives for creating delays have been in production since the 1960s, first the so-called bucket brigade delay lines that used a switched chain of on-chip capacitors, and more recently all-digital chips that process the delay by storing samples in RAM. One of …read more
Continue reading The PT2399 Delay/Echo Chip Data Sheet You Never Had
You will soon be able to control your hotel room, and access hotel services with Amazon’s new Alexa for Hospitality platform.
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