David Pierce talks with smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy about Amazon’s network of smart home devices called Sidewalk and the state of Matter, the promised smart home standard.
Monica Chin brings six laptops to Times Square in New York City to test out the microphones.
Tom Warren joins the show to explain how AI is being integrated into Microsoft’s products, which may be more promising than Bing’s chatbot.
00:00 – Intro
01:24 – Amazon Sidewalk explained
19:35 – Matter update
29:46 – Laptop microphone test
44:17 – Microsoft’s AI tools
Further reading:
Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on: http://bit.ly/3mfiv7E
Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever: http://bit.ly/3mfiK2y
Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity: http://bit.ly/438Kzu4
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