If you think about smart-home gadgets at all, you probably think about energy-saving thermostats or lights you control with an app. Most people don’t worry about how they work, let alone how they might work together. Some of tech’s biggest players— Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc . ’s Google, Amazon . com Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co . —have established smart-home platforms, so your iPhone can turn off the lights or Alexa can change the thermostat without too… Source link
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Prompts on how to use Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant are seen in an Amazon ‘experience centre’ in Vallejo, California, U.S., May 8, 2018. Picture taken May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo June 23 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google need to offer more details about how their smart-home devices and virtual assistants will support competition and user privacy, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote to the companies on Tuesday. In a letter, the… Source link
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