Your iPhone already has Siri on it, but Alexa is integrated into so many services that it easily trumps Siri in that regard. If you’ve ever wanted to use Alexa from your phone, Astra lets you do just that. Astra isn’t much to look at, but with the exception of a few limitations, like Spotify […]
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Amazon’s Echo line already has a truckload of skills that tap into Alexa’s ability to lend a hand with tasks, and the company adds new ones on a what seems like a weekly basis. This week, Google announced Netflix support for its connected Home speaker through Chromecast alongside the ability to display images from Google
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It’s all starting to come together. Project Evo and Windows 10 on ARM are two very important projects that help lay the foundations for Home Hub, Microsoft’s up and coming Windows 10 feature that aims to make Windows 10 PCs the center of your home. We recently blew the lid off everything Microsoft has planned
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Image: Radomir Rezny, Getty Images, iStock In a first for the hotel industry, Wynn Las Vegas is taking a gamble with the Amazon Echo smart speaker and equipping 4,748 hotel rooms with the hands-free natural language processing device. Wynn began deploying the devices in suites this month, and it will be available in all guest
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One of this year’s most popular tech gifts: · Amazon Echo, the Wi-Fi Connected Speaker, is a hands-free, voice-controlled speaker that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, and more. · Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service, to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and now the AT&T Send Message skill.
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Column inches in newspapers and on tech blogs may still outnumber the devices in the average consumer’s home but 2017 could be the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) truly becomes a thing. According to Juniper Research, by 2021, the number of connected devices, sensors and activators in use will total 46 billion, that’s
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Column inches in newspapers and on tech blogs may still outnumber the devices in the average consumer’s home but 2017 could be the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) truly becomes a thing. According to Juniper Research, by 2021, the number of connected devices, sensors and activators in use will total 46 billion, that’s
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Amid a sea of product choices from Google, Roku, Amazon and Apple alongside a surge in available OTT content, about 43% of U.S. Internet homes will own at least one streaming media player by the end of 2019, NPD Connected Intelligence predicted in its new Connected home Forecast. By that time, NPD expects there to
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The integration of streaming media player operating systems into TVs points to the beginning of a consolidation of operating systems that app developers will need to focus on in order to reach their audience. Port Washington, NY (PRWEB) December 16, 2016 According to the NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Forecast, by the end of 2019,
If you’ve been itching to talk to your Google Home about current events, travel, and pizza, you’re in luck. The voice-activated speaker just added nearly three dozen new services that will expand its knowledge of what happening in your house and the world. Earlier this week, Google Home gained the ability to play Netflix shows
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