LAS VEGAS—Talking to a Las Vegas Uber driver during CES is a bit like chatting to a patient in the doctor’s office lobby who is waiting to get a colonoscopy. Sure, he knows this is all good. But boy, does the traffic suck in the here and now. Yeah, it’s a safe bet to say […]
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January 9, 2017 – By Winifred Garcia · 0 Comments The stock of Control4 Corporation (NASDAQ:CTRL) registered a decrease of 3.54% in short interest. CTRL’s total short interest was 1.21 million shares in January as published by FINRA. Its down 3.54% from 1.26M shares, reported previously. With 122,000 shares average volume, it will take short
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Walking the exhibit halls and attending sessions at the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show, it was easy to identify the dominant theme: AI-enabled Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs). Manufacturers and suppliers of connected cars and homes are betting big on IPAs: overwhelmingly favoring Amazon Alexa. Impressionistically, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana and others trailed some distance behind. Natural
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[embedded content] Amazon.com, Inc.’s (AMZN) Alexa is on a roll. Based on reports from tech journalists who attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, Alexa was the winner at this year’s event. The chirpy, wise-cracking voice assistant’s technology seems to have permeated a variety of consumer products – from Ford Motor
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Television anchors on San Diego’s CW6 were discussing how a young girl “accidentally” ordered a dollhouse and four pounds of cookies by talking to Amazon’s Alexa when one of the anchors said “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse.” Oops. From CW6 San Diego: As soon as (anchor Jim) Patton said
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Amazon Alexa, a personal assistant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) added to its Echo smart speaker, recently delivered a big surprise to parents of a six-year-old girl in Dallas, Texas. According to a report Fox News (via The Verge), a six-year-old asked Alexa, “Can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?” The voice assistant
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NXT-ID, Inc. (NXTD) a security technology company, announces that, in cooperation with Nordic Semiconductor, ASA. (NOD.OL), the Company demonstrated a miniature module within a wearable smart band to enable devices powering the IoT (Internet of Things). The “IoT Stamp” is an intelligently connected electronics module that is small enough and low power enough to fit
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It can be remembered that when Siri was introduced in 2011, all other tech companies, including Google and Microsoft, was saying that it was a wrong move for Apple to take. However, the increase in the sale of Apple devices prove these tech companies wrong. ( Oli Scarff/Getty Images ) Many tech and gadget experts
Click To View Slideshow» From Kuri to Lenovo’s Smart Assistant, a life like the Jetsons might not be too far off after all. Forget roosters—at CES, 2017 is the year of Alexa. You could hardly walk down an aisle without spotting some sort of smart lighting, security camera, lock, or hub that had some sort
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