Tech show offers big and flashy, up-close and (very) personal
The screens will be bigger and bolder, the cars will be smarter and some of the technology will be up-close and personal—even intimate.
Jan 2, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Cybersecurity labeling for smart devices aims to help people choose items less likely to be hacked
Consumer labels designed to help Americans pick smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking could begin appearing on products before the holiday shopping season, federal officials said Wednesday.
May 22, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Homes fitted with new technology could make the grid smarter
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a control system that could make most of America's homes more capable partners in managing the nation's electricity resources.
May 17, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple, Google, Amazon eye common standard for smart home devices
Will Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google Assistant finally get along?
Dec 18, 2019
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Security
Researchers find ways of securing 'internet of things' security problems in the smart home
So…you've built your smart home, it's got smart heating and lighting, all the latest smart communications and entertainment systems, and of course, smart power generation to make it smart and green. But, how do you keep ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Soft shine, smart functions in launch of Sony light
Home living in Japan is to take on a new light. Sony has answered the question: What if the lightbulb in your home could control almost everything else?
Consumer & Gadgets
Ditch the soundbar with new Amazon Echo speakers
Besides sporting a new round look, Amazon's updated fourth generation Echo speakers have something else going for them. Buy a pair for $200 and they make fabulous TV speakers.
Oct 27, 2020
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Engineering
'PrivacyMic': For a smart speaker that doesn't eavesdrop
Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world's smart speakers. The trouble is that they're capable of hearing everything else, ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Security
Not Big Brother, but close: A surveillance expert explains some of the ways we're all being watched, all the time
A group of researchers studied 15 months of human mobility movement data taken from 1.5 million people and concluded that just four points in space and time were sufficient to identify 95% of them, even when the data weren't ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Teaching computers the meaning of sensor names in smart homes
The UPV/EHU's IXA group has use natural language processing techniques to overcome one of the major difficulties associated with smart homes, namely that the systems developed to infer activities in one environment do not ...
Dec 1, 2020
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