Consumer & Gadgets
In recent years, voice assistants such as Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana have become increasingly popular. People in many countries worldwide communicate with these artificial intelligence (AI) agents on ...
Oct 27, 2020 feature
1
258
Engineering
Gone are the days when people use smart speakers—like Amazon Echo or Google Home—only as kitchen timers or dinner party music players. These devices have started helping people track their own health, and can even monitor ...
Oct 16, 2019
0
153
Consumer & Gadgets
OK, Google, so what's it going to be? You or Alexa?
Nov 25, 2019
0
6
Internet
Many internet-connected devices—let's use smart speakers as an example—share data to the cloud when you interact with them. How do you know your speaker isn't always listening? How do you know it's not sharing more information ...
May 31, 2022
1
93
Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Bochum Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Cyber Security and Privacy have investigated which words inadvertently activate voice assistants. They compiled a list of English, ...
Jul 3, 2020
4
52
Consumer & Gadgets
Individuals who fear talking in front of a crowd could soon have a new tool to ease public speaking anxiety: their smart speaker.
Apr 25, 2020
0
47
Security
,The innocuous microwave on a shelf in a laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., is anything but ordinary.
Oct 27, 2020
0
40
Consumer & Gadgets
A series of privacy missteps in recent months has raised fresh concerns over the future of voice-controlled digital assistants, a growing market seen by some as the next frontier in computing.
Aug 3, 2019
0
110
Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon on Wednesday added the ability to tell its Alexa digital assistant to forget what it has heard in a move that could assuage concerns about Echo devices remembering conversations.
May 30, 2019
0
25
Software
More and more of the devices that we surround ourselves with on a daily basis are connected to the internet. This makes them not only smart, but also vulnerable to cyberattacks and criminal acts.
May 2, 2023
0
4
