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With 17 billion internet-connected devices worldwide, AI is subtly creeping into our everyday lives – and making us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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The Internet of Things will transform industry, agriculture, and our cities. But we need to consider carefully the risks as well as the rewards.
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Those designing smart energy systems must take gender into account.
Amazon says it has considered adding facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell cameras. Some politicians are concerned Ring’s video-sharing partnerships with police departments encroach on people’s privacy and civil liberties.
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Amazon says it’s the “new neighbourhood watch” but Ring may just be another technology that gives police too much data and lets neighbourhoods double down on their biases.
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Forget Alexa – true artificial intelligence will be able to understand dementia patients’ needs and offer help accordingly.
Who’s the boss in a smart home?
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Smart home technology promises to make our lives easier, but how much control do we want this tech to have over our lives? And do we really trust it?
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There are mounting calls to dismember the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, but most people seem to have overlooked the biggest threat of all.
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Many homes are already smart – but they’re about to get much smarter.
They’re small and well-connected, but how safe are ‘internet of things’ devices?
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As the number of ‘internet of things’ devices expands rapidly, so do security vulnerabilities to homes, businesses, governments and the internet as as whole.
Men are more often the instigators for bringing smart home technology into the home and managing their operation.
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While networked entertainment systems, automated security, mood lights and voice-controlled thermostats make homes more secure and productive, they’re also just good fun.
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The Achilles’ heel of law technologies: training. Only 10% of such initiatives are aimed at law students, so how should this issue be managed to win the AI race?
Siri, should you even be here?
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There are several reasons people might find smart devices equipped with an always-on microphone both attractive and unsettling.
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Sound alerts on digital devices are often annoying, so we’ve tended to opt for silence. In future, that could hold us back.
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Apple’s closed system may be its undoing in the smart home market.
There has been a resurgence in home automation with the advent of voice-activated digital assistants.
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Once you have the ability to speak to a digital assistant from any room in the house, the obvious next step is to make the house able to listen.
Smart home technology, such as cameras, could be used as part of domestic violence.
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Can we use smart home data to better identify and report abusers, while protecting victims of domestic and family violence?
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But don’t worry, it’s failing. For now.
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Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant device is coming to the UK and bringing smart homes with it.
Controlling our homes with the tap of an app may have hidden energy costs.
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Our homes are getting smarter and more connected – but at what cost to energy use?
What can your home do for you?
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Smart home technologies have some major security weaknesses that better design and programming could solve.