Japanese electronic musical instrument manufacturer, Roland, has announced a new keyboard with integrated Alexa. The GO:PIANO could be used to replace your piano teacher.
Colleagues from Heise have revealed a bug in Amazon's language assistant Alexa. A reader could also listen to the records of another user who was completely unknown to him after a data query in accordance with the Basic Data Protection Regulation. Heise tracked him down. Amazon, however, claims ignorance.
Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo can understand every word you say. In order to this, the smart speaker needs to be permanently active. This function can also be used to give every Echo an alarm system. Amazon has already begun rolling out this feature with a software update.
Amazon's Alexa has added home security to its repertoire thanks to new skills that let you control your existing systems from companies like Abode, ADT, Ring and so on via the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Here's what you can do.
Whether it's letters or phone calls, emails or text messages, people have always been concerned about possible invasions of their privacy. And with the arrival of smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, the issue is more relevant than ever.
The technology that makes your home smart has never developed as much as it does today. Just think that, in 2018 alone, the smart home market produces profits of 23.5 million dollars. So why not build more smart homes?
According to a study by MIT, smart home devices will be able to map every corner of our apartment and figure out whether we are at home or not.
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