Collaborate Disseminate
Hello again readers and welcome back!! I had the pleasure of attending (and speaking at, more on that in a bit!) at the 10th SANS DFIR Summit this past week. It is one conference that I always try to attend, as it always has a fantastic lineup of DFIR … Continue reading A Brief Recap of the SANS DFIR Summit
Nothing makes us feel more like we’re on Star Trek then saying “Computer, turn on desk light,” and watching the light turn on. Of course, normal people would have left the wake up word as “Alexa,” but we like “Computer” even if it does make it hard to watch Star Trek episodes without the home automation going crazy.
There’s a lot of hype right now about how voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming everything. We’ve even seen a few high-profile types warning that AI is going to come alive and put us in the matrix or something. That …read more
Continue reading Alexa, Sudo Read My Resistor! A Challenge for Hackers
Now that there’s a screen in the Echo universe, there’s almost nothing you and Alexa can’t do. The post Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed
Despite the decision by the accused, the arguments for considering Alexa protected by First Amendment rights remain ‘surprisingly plausible’ Continue reading Amazon fight to keep Echo recording out of murder trial now moot
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: 1984 tops bestseller charts; Alexa pleases Trekkies; HP extends battery recall
[Wisecracker] likes how the Amazon Echo Dot works, but he doesn’t like how they sound or how they resemble hockey pucks. A little 3D printing, though, and he transformed the Dot into a credible Death Star. That doesn’t sound very friendly, we guess, so he calls it Alex-Star.
What makes it work is the Death Star’s “superlaser” — the weapon operated by a console that looks suspiciously like some studio video equipment — happens to be about the size and shape of a two-inch speaker. [Wisecracker] added a slot to let the sound out of the second speaker. You can …read more
Alexa just found a major new home. The post Lenovo’s Smart Speaker Marries Up Alexa Smarts and Hardon Karman Sounds appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Lenovo’s Smart Speaker Marries Up Alexa Smarts and Hardon Karman Sounds
Drowning in hot tub was followed by 140-gallon hose-down recorded by utility. Continue reading Police ask: “Alexa, did you witness a murder?”
If there are two things we love here at Hackaday, it’s games and automating mundane tasks by adding a lot of electronics and voice control. A game room is, therefore, the perfect sandbox for projects that get us excited in all of the right ways. Liberty Games, a UK-based games room company, already had a really impressive game room (as you might expect). They’ve just posted an awesome build log showcasing how they went about automating mundane game room tasks by adding a lot of electronics and voice control.
There were four tasks that Liberty Games wanted to be able …read more
Thanks to Alexa, Eero’s mesh network doubles as a gadget search and rescue squad. The post Eero Routers Can Help You Find Your Lost Smartphone Now appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Eero Routers Can Help You Find Your Lost Smartphone Now
