The best skills to use on Alexa
Alexa is Amazon’s voice assistant that powers its Echo series of home automation devices. One of the main reasons for its current popularity is the number of third party skills. There are as many as 4000 skills available covering everything from controlling light bulbs to reading jokes. For a new owner, there are just too…
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Future upgrades to voice assistants
There are two hardware based voice assistants available today: The Amazon Echo and Google Home. They both do the same thing: they listen for a keyword and use any voice input from that point to structure a command. Google Home is a recent entrant, so it lags behind the Echo in both available third party…
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Basic cooling requirements for a server room
When setting up a new data center, cooling is one of the most important elements after power and network capacity. Here are the most important considerations for cooling: Thermal load – Determine the amount of cooling required for the server room. This is based on the thermal load of the equipment. There are labels with…
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Google RAISR Makes Low-Res Images High Quality
One of the biggest issues for smartphone users is bandwidth usage. There are very few true unlimited data plans anymore. This has become a problem due to the rising sizes of web pages. Most web pages now average 16MB and are growing rapidly every year. Ad blockers help on the desktop but there is no…
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Amazon Web Services unveils ‘Shield’
Amazon announced a new tool called Shield. It is a product that is meant to protect online properties from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks like the ones that took down online giants like Reddit, Netflix, and Twitter in 2016. This launch puts Amazon in direct competition with other internet companies like Cloudflare which provide…
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