| Project Magnet
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Wilson/Maria
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Gate 0
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On Target
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Planning Tasks
- Gate 1 review tomorrow Jan 13th (Deck and Product Visuals)
- Engineering tasks have been broken down and estimated to create the execution timeline until Gate 2
- Creating Marketing plan, Project Plan, costs and resource estimations
UX/Research Tasks
- Reaching out to street artists, publishers, street art fans to provide feedback about the User Experience and also to understand the way to gather the right type of content
- 19 artists who have expressed an interest in Magnet. Stats on response rate - 24%.
Engineering Tasks
- Development work have been split in 6 Sprints (from January 9th to March 31st). For this phase we would use another client called "journey"
- Sprint 10 (January 9th - January 20th) has already been started this week
- Backend: Static API to serve jsons for the list view and each story view, Dockerization for dev/test/prod environment
- Client/Frontend: Bootstrap new react-native app, API and development of some React Components (Magnetometer implementation for arrow direction and Location Services)
 
 
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| Market Developments Update
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Irina
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N/A
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READ-ONLY
- Amazon Alexa at CES
- Voice control is coming to smart home devices and appliances in a big way, judging from the many such product introductions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Alexa clearly dominated CES, and it has quite a head start over the other two big contenders. Google Home launched just last fall, two years after the Echo, and Apple HomeKit adoption has been slow because of the extremely involved approval process. “Amazon is taking a very aggressive early lead,” says Tuong Nguyen, principal research analyst with Gartner. “I feel there’s still a lot of opportunity for competition, and I’m not sure if it’s going to be an either-or situation.”
- Among appliance makers at CES, LG, Whirlpool, GE, and Samsung all showed off products that take orders from Alexa. Samsung introduced a robot vacuum that you can start by issuing a command to an Echo. The forthcoming LG Smart InstaView Door-in-Door refrigerator will have a disembodied Alexa built right in, so you can ask it to pull up recipes on the touchscreen or order food directly from—you guessed it—Amazon Fresh.
- As for Whirlpool, all of its connected appliances in 2017 will also integrate Alexa voice control, including fridges, ranges, microwaves, washers, and dryers. (Nobody’s figured out yet what to ask a dishwasher to do.) GE announced a suite of appliances last fall that can be controlled by Alexa-equipped devices.
- FTC files to protect consumers’ security in the Internet of Things. On January 5, 2017, the FTC filed a complaint against computer networking equipment manufacturer, D-Link Corporation, alleging that the company failed to take reasonable steps to secure routers and Internet-protocol cameras from “widely known and reasonably foreseeable risks of unauthorized access,” leaving consumers vulnerable to data privacy and security risks. The D-Link case is the FTC’s third case in the Internet of Things (IOT) space.
- Verizon announced a partnership with Qualcomm to introduce ThingSpace-ready modules for deployment using the chip designer’s CAT-M1 LTE Modem, according to a press release from Qualcomm. Further, Verizon is making a development kit available to the public that will help with the easy creation of various IoT solutions using its ThingSpace platform. This is a strong move for both companies, and it speaks to the increasing importance of IoT platforms like ThingSpace as the IoT proliferates.
- The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is challenging the public to create an innovative tool that will help protect consumers from security vulnerabilities in the software of IoT home devices. The agency is offering a cash prize of up to $25,000 for the best technical solution. The FTC is asking IoT Home Inspector Challenge contestants to develop a tool that would address security vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software in IoT devices. An ideal tool might be a physical device that the consumer can add to his or her home network that would check and install updates for other IoT devices on that home network, or it might be an app or cloud-based service, or a dashboard or other user interface. Contestants also have the option of adding features such as those that would address hard-coded, factory default or easy-to-guess passwords.
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