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• Amazon Echo Dot gets more portable and better sound from Vaux

  29-04-2017 23:05
  
  Amazon’s second-generation Echo Dot ($50) is essentially an Echo minus the larger device’s rich-sounding speaker. Now, a company called Ninety7 is giving Echo Dot the speaker that Amazon didn’t provide.Vaux is an attractive, $50 battery-powered speaker/docking station specifically for Echo Dot. Drop your Alexa-enabled Echo Dot into the top of the speaker, connect the two using Vaux’s built-in microUSB and 3.5mm aux input cables, and away you go.To read this article in ful
  
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• How the Amazon Echo Look improves privacy

  29-04-2017 13:00
  
  Look! A new Amazon Echo!The Amazon Echo Look is like the original Echo, plus a camera.The $200 device delivers the Alexa virtual assistant. But the camera is optimized for helping you choose clothing to look your best when you get dressed.The Echo Look is a camera for your bedroom. As such, it's being widely slammed as a massive invasion of privacy.But this view is wrong and based on a provably false assumption.I'll tell you exactly how the Echo Look actually improves privacy. But first, let's t
  
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• NSA ends surveillance tactic that pulled in citizens' emails, texts

  29-04-2017 01:23
  
  The U.S. National Security Agency will no longer sift through emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.The change, which the NSA announced on Friday, stops a controversial tactic that critics said violated U.S. citizens' privacy rights.The practice involved flagging communications where a foreign surveillance target was mentioned, even if that target wasn't involved in the conversation. Friday’s announcement means the NSA will stop collecting thi
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S8: Everything you need to know, all in one place

  29-04-2017 01:06
  
  The release of the latest Galaxy S phone is always a major event, and with good reason. Samsung’s premium flagship practically defines our expectations for high-end, high-price Android phones for the year to come. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ deliver a smorgasbord of features, top-tier hardware, a great camera, and bleeding-edge design. This, together with Samsung’s marketing muscle, make them the most popular premium Android phones. To read this article in full or to leave a comment,
  
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• BrandPost: Small Steps For Data Analytics

  29-04-2017 00:43
  
  Small Steps For Data AnalyticsBy Sachin YadavIn the rapidly evolving IT space, the notion of creating and leveraging data analytics is rapidly gathering momentum, for the all right reasons, including the nature of the complex problems we are trying to solve, the volume of data we need to store and the velocity at which we need to process it to be able to create data models swiftly to answer our complex business questions in real time. For Einstein aptly said, “The solution of the problem c
  
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