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- Page 1 The best of IDF 2015
- Page 2 Spidergeddon is here – arachnophobes look away now!
- Page 3 Superfast 3D Xpoint storage to be called Optane
- Page 4 Intel Curie brings BMX into the digital age
- Page 5 Intel Skylake K series unlocked CPUs coming to laptops too
- Page 6 Intel RealSense brings head-tracking to racing games
- Page 7 Intel Collaborative Cancer Cloud
- Page 8 Fossil and Intel team up to create wearables
- Page 9 Intel SmartSound lets you wake your computer with your voice
- Page 10 Nabi Smart Clip baby seat monitor
- Page 11 Razer and Creative set to release RealSense cameras
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Computers powered by the sixth-generation Intel Core processor Skylake can be woken with a vocal prompt.
Tying in nicely with Windows 10’s Cortana personal-assistant feature, the newly revealed CPU feature is constantly listening out for your voice.
Just say “Cortana, wake up” or “Hey Cortana” around a sleeping Intel Skylake-powered Windows 10 PC or laptop, and it’ll spring out of hibernation.
It’s the kind of feature that we’ve seen in select Android-powered smartphones (such as the Motorola Moto X) before now, as well as on Microsoft’s Xbox One console (provided you have a Kinect peripheral). It’s the first time such a feature will have been seen on computers, however.