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Roku takes on Google Nest with rebranded Wyze smart home gear, complete with TV integration

In an effort to expand past just your home theater, Roku has just announced its first foray into the smart home with cameras, smart plugs, and lighting that feel awful familiar. Roku’s smart home lineup will be available starting on October 17 and will bring seven products to market. The lineup firstly includes smart lighting – both bulbs and light strips – and smart plugs. These should…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Levity raises seed round, debuts no-code AI workflow automation platform

Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Using artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a larger business process can often be a complicated exercise.  That was the experience that Gero Keil and Thilo Hüllmann had as they were trying to build a tool focused on creating ease for sales professionals, by using AI to help…
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GamingNews

Apple Music finally arrives on Xbox consoles

It seems like Microsoft just can’t stop confirming Xbox partnerships this week. On Tuesday, Xbox Cloud Gaming support for Meta Quest 2 and some new Chromebooks was announced. Now, Microsoft has linked up with Apple to finally offer an Apple Music app on Xbox consoles. As spotted by Eurogamer, you can snag the app on an Xbox One or Xbox Series X/S console by searching for it on consoles, or…
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MobileNews

Google introduces passwordless authentication to Chrome and Android with passkeys 

Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Password-based security is an oxymoron. With over 15 billion exposed credentials leaked on the dark web, and 54% of security incidents caused by credential theft, passwords simply aren’t effective at keeping out threat actors.  Passwords’ widespread exploitability has led to…
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