Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Sunday (March 30, 2025)
KOTA KINABALU: St Michael's Church in Penampang will host a workshop on technology and how it affects families, next month.
Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company's cloud.
Many smart devices including TVs, speakers, air fryers and smartwatches are making “excessive” requests for access to user data, according to a new study.
Marc Ettlinger, linguistic engineering manager at US tech giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company, shared a bold prediction: the future of technology will not be centred around smartphones, but rather on wearables such as smart glasses.
Alexa and Google Assistant will soon occupy the same line of high-end JBL speakers – a novel arrangement in the world of voice-connected devices.
Amazon.com Inc has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence.
(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc's Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc's patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday.
Smart speakers help people who live on their own feel less lonely and give some disabled people a stronger sense of independence, according to new Ofcom research.
While there are already a multitude of smart devices that can measure the climate in your home, this technology is now coming to some audio speakers.
Baidu Inc is adding a phone to its portfolio of smart gadgets as it builds out a hardware ecosystem to complement its internet services.
LONDON (Reuters) - On-demand services from Britain's BBC, ITV and other public service broadcasters must remain easy to find on smart TVs and set-top boxes, the government said as it announced a plan to update media rules for the streaming age.
(Reuters) - Sonos Inc and Alphabet's Google LLC will face off in a San Francisco federal trial on Monday over claims that Google copied Sonos' patented smart-speaker technology in wireless audio devices like Google Home and Chromecast Audio.
LOWER enrollment in rural schools remains a major concern despite improvements in teaching infrastructure and learning environments.
THE Blue Tees Player+ golf speaker is a category leader with superior visual, audio and touch-sensor GPS screen.
Smart speakers were fun and handy when they started, but not everyone bought into them. As improvements to their smarts appear slowed, so too have sales. Have smart speakers lost their mojo?
The Amazon Echo smart speaker vulnerability enables hackers to use the device to issue malicious commands to itself, like making calls or purchases.
When the camera scans that you are making eye contact, it listens to what you're saying so that you can, for example, ask about the weather or tell it to play your podcasts.
When it comes to connected devices, smart speakers are a popular choice. Thanks to simple voice commands, this kind of device can be used for listening to music, as well as searching for information and controlling other connected objects in the home.
The technology becomes interesting for a smart home setup as this system enables the creation and execution of relatively simple routines when someone arrives in a room.