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  • Smart Devices Can Hear Subliminal Messages from Music that Humans Can’t

    Smart Devices Can Hear Subliminal Messages from Music that Humans Can’t

    When it comes to technology, nothing should surprise you.  Nothing surprises me these days.  Which is why, when I learned what a group of students was doing, it didn’t phase me.  Is it highly troubling?  It certainly is, but it doesn’t surprise me.  In a New York Times report, a group of students from the…

  • You Can Now Make Your Own Alexa Skills and Responses

    You Can Now Make Your Own Alexa Skills and Responses

    Amazon announced, this week, “Alexa Blueprints”.  This is a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses – without knowing how to code.  This is a really great idea, as it allows Alexa owners to create their own voice apps, like trivia games or bedtime stories.  Alternatively, they…

  • Now You Can Pepper Alexa with Questions Thanks to Follow-Up Mode

    Now You Can Pepper Alexa with Questions Thanks to Follow-Up Mode

    If you’re a power Alexa-user, then you’ve likely asked her several questions over and over again within a very short period of time.  Am I wrong?  The disadvantage?  You have to say “Alexa” every time you want to ask a question, in order to keep waking up the digital assistant.  But now, Amazon has a…