A substantial fraction of those satellites are used by the United States military for communication, command and control, weather and targeting for its widely dispersed armed forces.
They're not quite free of budgetary restrictions, perhaps, but they're unencumbered by local politics, and can cut and paste neighbourhoods, orchestrate traffic flows and command the weather.
The command center also monitors weather and traffic conditions to help responders avoid snarls.
Yes, after pulling herself out of her 1950's rut as a swimsuit model to become everything from a doctor, lawyer, computer scientist, astronaut and even the president of the United States, Barbie has now become a 3D-animated hologram that can serve up the weather on command.
With the Robo app, the right blocks and a rainy afternoon, you could – according to the Kickstarter page – have a three-wheeled robot nosing around the room, obeying commands and announcing the weather forecast.
The Mountain View, Calif., company has built a telecommunications infrastructure in which customers would dial an 800 number and utter spoken commands for information on weather forecasts, traffic conditions, directions, sports scores and headlines.
Derived from the Boeing 707, it provides all-weather surveillance, command, control and communications, and is used by the United States Air Force (USAF, NATO, Royal Air Forcee (RAF), French Air Force and Royal Saudi Air Force.
Light Phone 2 is possibly getting music, weather, and voice commands, none of which really screams "minimal" to me, nor do they seem trivial to add.
Alexa is always listening through a system of seven built-in microphones but waits for you to say the "wake word" to send it commands, like asking for the weather or which music to play, according to the company.
With the advances made with smartphone digital assistants like Google Now, Siri, and Cortana, consumers are quite comfortable with spoken commands -- asking about the weather or sending a quick text.
According to German magazine c*t, which was given access to the files by the German Amazon customer, Alexa also recorded general comments concerning day-to-day life and work as well as music and alarm commands and questions about the weather.
