{"id":29375,"date":"2019-01-16T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:22:34","slug":"how-amazon-alexa-got-so-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29375","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon Alexa got so smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">San Francisco (CNN Business)<\/cite>For Amazon, getting Alexa&#8217;s new security-guard feature to work meant literally breaking a lot of windows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In December, the company started inviting <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/22\/technology\/alexa-everywhere\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Echo users<\/a> to try out Alexa Guard, a new setting that turns the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/28\/tech\/amazon-echo-event\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">smart speakers<\/a> into home security devices. It listens for suspicious sounds when you&#8217;re away and sends a smartphone alert if it detects, say, a window breaking and a possible break in.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">According to Prem Natarajan, vice president of Alexa&#8217;s AI division, Amazon employees had to destroy different types of glass, such as window glass, wine glasses and drinking glasses, with tools like baseballs or hammers to train the technology. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco (CNN Business)For Amazon, getting Alexa&#8217;s new security-guard feature to work meant literally breaking a lot of windows.In December, the company started inviting Amazon Echo users to try out Alexa Guard, a new setting that turns the smart speakers into home security devices. It listens for suspicious sounds when you&#8217;re away and sends a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}