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What researchers have dubbed the Dolphin Attack is theoretical – for now – but it affects all voice assistants Continue reading Your voice assistant can hear things you can’t – such as a hacker
What if your smartphone starts making calls, sending text messages, and browsing malicious websites on the Internet itself without even asking you?
This is no imaginations, as hackers can make this possible using your smartphone’s personal assistant l… Continue reading Hackers Can Silently Control Siri, Alexa & Other Voice Assistants Using Ultrasound
I don’t think we’ll call virtual assistants done until we can say, “Make me a sandwich” (without adding “sudo”) and have a sandwich made and delivered to us while sitting in front of our televisions. However, they are not completely without use as they are currently – they can let you know the time, weather and traffic, schedule or remind you of meetings and they can also be used to order things from Amazon. [Pat AI] was interested in building an open source, extensible, virtual assistant, so he built P-Brain.
Think of P-Brain as the base for a more complex …read more
Every day it seems there is a new Alexa story in the news, as for the moment the Amazon voice assistant is in the ascendant over its rivals from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Today’s slice of Alexa weirdness comes courtesy of a newsreader in San Diego, who inadvertently triggered Alexa-enabled devices within hearing distance of a television to buy doll houses when he reported on a Dallas child’s accidental purchase.
It’s unclear whether any doll houses were dispatched or whether the Echos and Dots merely started the process and asked their owners for confirmation, but we hope it serves to …read more
Continue reading “Alexa, Order Everyone In San Diego A Doll House”
Our hackspace has acquired an Amazon Dot, courtesy of a member. It mostly seems to be used as a source of background music, but it has also spawned a seemingly never-ending new entertainment in which the hackspace denizens ceaselessly bait their new electronic companion with ever more complex and esoteric requests. From endless rephrasing and careful enunciation of obscure early reggae artists to try to settle a musical argument to hilarious mis-hearing on the part of our silicon friend, the fun never stops. “Alexa, **** off!” it seems results in “I’m sorry, I can’t find a device of that name …read more
Continue reading How Has Amazon Managed To Make Hackers Love Alexa?
Google’s not trying to take on Apple. It’s trying to make sure Google is everywhere the Internet is. The post Google’s Going to Change the Gadget Game, But Not Like You Think appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Google’s Going to Change the Gadget Game, But Not Like You Think
