A power pole collapses at 8 p.m. on a hot night in the remote outback of Australia. This is a problem for William and Olivia Munroe, who raise sheep and cattle 100 miles outside an old gold mining town on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. In the summer, the temperature frequently soars close …
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A power pole collapses at 8 p.m. on a hot night in the remote outback of Australia. This is a problem for William and Olivia Munroe, who raise sheep and cattle 100 miles outside an old gold mining town on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. In the summer, the temperature frequently soars close …
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Accenture has announced a new business unit in partnership with IPsoft focused on spurring adoption of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. The systems integration and outsourcing giant plans to use IPsoft’s Amelia AI platform as the core of the new Accenture Amelia practice. Amelia is similar to Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, but is touted …
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Amazon debuted its Dash buttons final year, letting you re-order a certain item when you&rsquore operating low with the touch of a button, and right now it has expanded the capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) developers with the new AWS IoT button. The button functions on the Amazon Web Services framework and enables developers …
People are Holding Themselves Back from Online Shopping Over Security Fears According to the results of a survey from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, nearly half of all Americans (41,000 homes) have scaled back a normal online task as they were worried about security fears regarding lack of online security and privacy. There was …
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On Tuesday, May 10, The Hill hosted a conversation on how technological innovation and the Internet of Things are transforming the way we live. Questions considered included: How can policymakers and industry collaborate to support the development and implementation of these cutting-edge technologies? What standards or regulations might be needed to ensure the security of …
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Get ready: Four years in the making, Viv, Siri’s cousin, is here — and those who know her say she is one of a kind. At Disrupt NYC this week, Siri creators Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer offered convincing evidence that their new AI-powered assistant could disrupt commerce as we know it: Through the power …
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Manufacturers must modernize systems and migrate their workforce to capture the full value of industrial IoT, says Brian Fortney of Rockwell Automation Image courtesy CoolDesign/freedigitalphotos.net. Whether you embrace it or dread it, there is no escaping the Internet of Things (IoT). It will be, if it is not already, part of your personal and professional …
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If you’ve been itching to use Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa, on your mobile device, there’s now a solution, and its name is Roger. The app lets you use Alexa, react to voicemail messages, and send voice messages to your contacts. Roger, an app that lets you send voice messages to your contacts in a walkie-talkie …
The internet is great because it makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family, but it can also be a scary place, especially for kids. They can surf to smutty websites or end up chatting with strangers. Not good. The people behind a new product, Ily, think they have a way for …
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