Alexa’s creepy laugh is just the beginning of bigger problems in our IoT future

Did you hear Alexa’s creepy, disembodied, and irrelevant laughter the other day? If not, you can count yourself lucky. As we adopt more devices for our homes and bodies, we open the door to more vulnerabilities and errors. Nobody expects new technology to work perfectly, but the recent system failures like and operating errors — like those of Alexa and Oculus Rift — offer a valuable lesson for consumer and developers about IoT. Basically, it illustrates just how far we are from a functional IoT future. Amazon Alexa’s creepy cackling In case you didn’t catch the story, Amazon Echo devices…

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