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LG, Amazon Partner on Alexa For Hospitality Integration with Hotel Displays

July 6, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

LG and Amazon have partnered to develop the first integration of Alexa for Hospitality with the display manufacturer’s line of hotel TVs using its webOS smart TV platform. Announced during hospitality technology trade show HITEC 2022, the integration will allow hotels to upgrade new and existing LG hotel TVs running webOS 6.0 or 5.0 to […]

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Webex and Alexa May Help Power Future Space Mission Communications

January 5, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

What if future astronauts were able to communicate via videoconferencing technologies with control on Earth? That’s what Cisco, Amazon and Lockheed Martin are trying to do with NASA’s Orion spacecraft. The companies say they are teaming up to integrate “unique human-machine interface technologies” into the spacecraft to learn how future space explorers can benefit from […]

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Virtual Assistants Are Quickly Becoming Part of the Workforce

August 18, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Virtual assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and others have been a helpful aide in the lives of many consumers. These assistants help users buy goods, schedule activities and turn appliances on and off. Now, these intelligent assistants are becoming our coworkers as Amazon and Microsoft along with hardware partners take steps to bring Alexa […]

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Research: Alexa Devices Vulnerable to Hacking

August 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

New research from Check Point suggests that Alexa is not as secure as we thought. Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant which is becoming a larger presence in the enterprise, is not immune to outside attacks because its subdomains are vulnerable to Corss-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) misconfiguration and Cross Site Scripting, Check Point researchers wrote. “Using the […]

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Samuel L. Jackson’s Voice is Now Available on Alexa Devices

December 16, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Instead of Alexa’s pleasant voice helping you run your company, Amazon is now offering a slightly more aggressive and intimidating voice. For just $0.99, Alexa users can be berated by Samuel L. Jackson’s voice, which can add some fun — or fear — to the office. The actor, best known for his tough guy roles […]

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Alexa IoT

Alexa Can Now Be Enabled In Virtually Any Device

November 26, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services customers will soon be able to talk to Alexa anywhere, given they’re near any kind of connected device. Amazon on Monday announced Alexa Voice Service Integration, a new service of AWS IoT Core that enables the intelligent voice application to be produced on any type of connected device, like light switches, thermostats […]

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Researchers Have Figured Out How to Hack Smart Home Devices — With a Laser

November 8, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

As helpful as Siri, Alexa and Google Home are, cyber security experts have long warned that smart device are probably not keeping your privacy very secure. It turns out, smart home hacking doesn’t even require much technical skill. Researchers at the University of Michigan say they have found a way to take over a Google […]

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