Amazon today simplified smart locks for Alexa, by adding a Door Lock API to its Alexa Skills Kit. This API, or application program interface, is designed to improve voice commands for lock partners ...

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At Google I/O in May, execs unveiled a competitor to Apple's HomeKit, an Android-based operating system called Brillo as well as a new, smart home-oriented wireless communication standard called Weave ...

Google just launched a new stable version of Chrome today that adds supports for the Pointer Lock JavaScript API. The purpose of this API is pretty simple: in 3D games on the browser, for example, the ...

For years now, the story coming out of VMware and the VMworld trade show was all around virtualizing your physical datacenter, but in 2008 and 2009, the VMware and VMworld message took a slight turn ...

As software-defined networking becomes more dominant, the APIs offered up by one networking vendor can more severely limit interoperability with products made by others. In my surveys of enterprises, ...

The Wake Lock API prevents some aspect of a device from entering a power-saving state, a feature currently only available to native applications. Chrome 79 Beta updates its experimental support for ...