Google Assistant is Google’s long-overdue response to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. It’s available by pushing the home button at the bottom of the new Google Pixel smartphones. It can send emails for you, recite your calendar events, open apps, tell jokes, play games with you, translate words, turn on music, provide information about movies showing …
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A screenshot of the Cortana app.(Photo: Microsoft) San Francisco — As handy as all our voice recognition friends are, conversing with them still feels you’re talking to a foreign relative. Whether its Siri (Apple) or Alexa (Amazon) or Google Assistant or Cortana (Microsoft), each requires the human to speak in slow, articulated phrases to increase the odds …
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Premium audio specialist Denon this week announced a partnership with Amazon to integrate Alexa voice control in its HEOS wireless multi-room sound platform. Arriving in Q1 2017, the move will enable HEOS users to control their speakers using natural speech instead of the HEOS app via an iOS, Android or Amazon Fire device. With the skill enabled, they will be …
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Nearly six years ago, before Nest Labs had even come out of stealth mode, a Wi-Fi-connected smart thermostat hit Home Depot shelves for $99. At the time, it was an incredibly competitive price point. Fancier versions of connected thermostats with underlying software, such as ecobee, retailed for approximately $500. Now, high-end thermostats are coming down …
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Dive Brief: Google has released a new TV campaign as well as a new slogan, “We Heart Home,” for its Nest product line of smart home devices according to AdAge. The new slogan is meant to promote the flagship Nest Thermostat, smoke and carbon monoxide detector and the Nest Cam, designed for both indoor and …
Since Siri first stepped into our lives in 2011, we’re being introduced to more and more digital assistants. We’ve met Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google’s Google Now. We know them, but do we love them? Apparently, it’s important that we bond with said digital assistant, and snappy comebacks appear to be the surest path …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was a keynote speaker at Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2016. Image: Jason Hiner/TechRepublic When Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, he asked what the company’s place in the world is, and how it could make the biggest contribution. What he kept coming back to was that the company builds things …
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Beth Daniel junior reporter, Tech City News Tuesday October 18th, 2016 Topics Related articles Neos, a connected home insurance service, has raised over £1m in Seed funding from investors including InsurTech fund Eos Venture Partners. Other new investors included Barry Smith (former CEO of Ageas), Steve Broughton (former managing director of RSA Insurance) and Richard …
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As tech behemoths duke it out for market share in the fast-growing Internet of Things industry, the smart home has attracted incredibly intense competition. Amazon (AMZN) has so far been leading the pack with its line of Echo devices, but Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is slated to introduce its Google Home device this month, seemingly leaving Apple …
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The iCamera KEEP Pro has Motion Tracking, Sound Recognition, Time Lapse, and Industry-leading 4 Megapixel Resolution. “The iCamera KEEP Pro is a huge step forward for DIY smart home security cameras,” Raymond Meng, CEO and Co-Founder of iSmart Alarm, Inc. said. Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) October 18, 2016 iSmart Alarm, Inc., the leader in DIY smart …