Samsung's version of Chromecast will make your dumb home smarter

Samsung wants Bixby to power your smart home, and it has a Chromecast-like dongle to make it happen.

The company unveiled an experimental dongle prototype called Project Ambience that turns "dumb" appliances and gadgets into Bixby-enabled smart home accessories.

During a demo onstage at Samsung's Developer Conference in San Francisco, Samsung CTO Injon Rhee demoed how the Project Ambience dongle could be connected to televisions and speakers to turn them into Bixby-enabled smart devices.

The news follows an earlier announcement that Samsung would be integrating Bixby into its smart TVs and Family Hub refrigerator. But Project Ambience promises to make the process of getting Bixby into the home much easier, according to Samsung, since it can be connected to older, "dumb" devices.  Read more...