Weekend Roundup: Layoffs, the ‘Hybrid Cloud,’ and Alexa Listening In Nate Swanner, April 12, 2019 4 min read You’re busy, we’re busy, everyone is busy. You can’t catch everything that happens in tech (and let’s be...
Amazon Alexa App Discovery Issue Affects Users & Developers: Study Nate Swanner, March 18, 2019 5 min read Alexa, Amazon’s ubiquitous digital assistant, feels as though it’s everywhere in your home. Unfortunately for...
Amazon Kills Dash Button, Showing IoT Weakness Nate Swanner, March 8, 2019 3 min read The Amazon Dash Button, launched in 2015, was a programmable Internet of Things (IoT) button you could place anywhere...
CES 2019 Makes Big Promises About Future of Smart Devices Nick Kolakowski, January 8, 2019 4 min read The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is famous for its fads. After Apple launched the iPhone, for example, it seemed...
2019 May Not Be a Great Year for Amazon Alexa Nate Swanner, December 31, 2018 2 min read Even as Amazon works to have its Alexa digital assistant running on every imaginable piece of hardware, a new study...
Amazon Opens Machine Learning Coursework to All Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 27, 2018 3 min read Amazon has opened up its machine-learning coursework to any developer who wants to explore the...
Amazon Rolls Out Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit for Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 26, 2018 2 min read Siri is available on iOS devices such as the iPhone, and the voice-activated Google Assistant is also supported on...
Samsung Opening Bixby Digital Assistant to Third-Party Developers Nick Kolakowski, November 11, 2018 3 min read Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and… Bixby? For tech pros interested in the rise of voice-activated digital...
New Facebook Portal Uses Alexa as Trojan Horse Into Homes Nate Swanner, October 9, 2018 4 min read In January, news site Cheddar reported that Facebook was working on a voice-only home hub named ‘Portal.’ It was...
Amazon Conquered the Cloud. Is It Flagging in Other Areas? Nick Kolakowski, September 28, 2018 6 min read Thousands of businesses and developers rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud infrastructure and tooling....
