Amazon’s Alexa Fund invested in Plant Prefab, a manufactured home startup that focuses on smart home technology and sustainable building practices. Backing prefabricated housing is a strategic move to boost smart home implementations. The post Alexa invests in manufactured housing with startup Plant Prefab appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv has over…
No ratings yet. Each day there is another story of hacking or data leak in the news. During the last couple of years, the number of cyber attacks has drastically increased, showing us that there is no corporation, business, governmental organization, or private computer, which is 100% immune to this risk. The problem is not about…
Google introduced the Oreo (Go Edition) for cheap smartphones with low-end specs, targeting the developing markets. Along with the optimized OS, the company launched several apps tailored for the Go platform, including Maps Go, Gmail Go, Assistant Go, etc. Latest Installs counter in the Play Store revealed that two of the more popular apps –…
In this episode of Product Hunt Radio I’m joined by two incredible people, Laura Deming and Daniel Gross, that have accomplished more before the age of 30 than most people have realized in a lifetime. Laura grew up in New Zealand and came to San Francisco when she was only 12 years old to join…
Ben Plomion is the chief image scientist of GumGum. By now, most of us have a general idea of what a neural network is, at least insomuch as its role in enabling the “machine learning” part of what’s considered AI today. Also known as deep learning, neural networks are the algorithmic constructs that enable machines…
The European Union’s executive body has signed up tech platforms and ad industry players to a voluntary Code of Practice aimed at trying to do something about the spread of disinformation online. Something, just not anything too specifically quantifiable. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Mozilla, the IAB advertising group are among those that have signed up to…
After months of speculation, Bitmain — the world’s largest provider of crypto miners — has opened the inner details of its business after it submitted its IPO prospectus with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. And some of the growth numbers are insane. The document doesn’t specify how much five-year-old Bitmain is aiming to raise from…
Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress. Wednesday’s hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple, Amazon, Google and Twitter, alongside AT&T and Charter, marked the latest in a string of hearings in the past few months into all things tech: but mostly controversies embroiling the companies, from election meddling to transparency. This…
Uber is taking a page out of the federal government’s disaster response handbook. The ride-hailing company is centralizing how it responds to disasters whether its flooding in North Carolina, a mass shooting in Las Vegas or an earthquake in Mexico City. Now, instead of taking a local-first (and sometimes reactionary) approach, the company’s global security…
After months of continuous pressure and needling and guilting from the rest of the gaming industry — fans, developers, and even Microsoft and Nintendo themselves — Sony is finally allowing cross-platform play between the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One and Switch. Fortnite cross-platform play starts today in open beta. Full details: https://t.co/fyPmx4iB4O pic.twitter.com/wdY3GnT4u1 —…
