Category: Emerging Technology

Can Amazon Echo help solve a murder? Police will soon find out.

A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding “always-on” electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed to release recordings from the murder defendant’s Amazon Echo as possible evidence. The Seattle-based e-commerce company had refused to comply with police warrants requesting the data in December and sought to quash a search warrant in February, court records showed.

YouTube launches streaming TV service

Google launched YouTube TV on Tuesday, which will cost $35 a month and offer access to content from broadcast networks as well as YouTube. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki? said people around the world watch one billion hours of YouTube content each day, and younger generations don’t want to consume television through traditional channels.

Everything is a virtual assistant now

Amazon’s virtual assistant, which first appeared more than two years ago on Amazon’s Echo smart speaker , seemed to be popping up everywhere at the annual International CES trade show in Las Vegas this week. Amazon opened Alexa to third-party hardware developers in the summer of 2015.

CES 2017: ASUS ProArt PA32U, VivoMini UN65U, MX38VQ and VC66 Unveiled

Featured products include ProArt PA32U, the world’s first 32-inch direct-lit LED 4K UHD high-dynamic-range monitor, Designo Curve MX38VQ, a 37.5-inch ultra-wide QHD monitor with a 2300R curvature, ASUS HiveSpot and HiveDot Mesh Wi-Fi System for reliable, ultra-fast and secure wireless coverage. ProArt PA32U has a 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3-enabled USB 3.1 Gen 2 port with DisplayPort 1.2 support.