Kirobo Mini: Technological imaginary friends Technology may have invaded the realm of imaginary friends. Lonely kids will not have to dream up their imaginary friends because they can have one that really talks back for about 400 US Dollars. There’s a little robot companion named Kirobo Mini and it comes from an unlikely source—Toyota. Think …
Casey Coleman TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 11, 2016 — Casey Coleman, vice president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal civilian business group, has observed various government agencies exploring the potential of internet of things to modernize aging infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. She wrote in an opinion piece published Friday that public sector organizations that aim to adopt IoT platforms should …
When Google Allo first premiered, people were actually most impressed – not by the messaging platform’s features, which were lacking – but by the Google Assistant companion that accompanied it. It was the first glimpse we got of an entity that’s slated to reside not only in Allo, but also in Google Home and Pixel …
This article is part of the Bots Channel. You can view a high-resolution version of the landscape here. Speak to some bot creators and they will tell you that they’re willing to jump through the hoops of building and submitting an app to Apple in order to join the iMessage App Store. It is possible …
Artificial intelligence, in practice, isn’t very funny. Ask Siri or Amazon Alexa to tell you a joke, and you’ll probably get something a 10-year-old would scrunch her nose at. Google wants to change that. The company unveiled Google Home, its Amazon Echo-like home assistant, last week. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google hired writers …
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GE Appliances GE Appliances just unveiled three $1,500 dishwashers that take care of a simple task: buying detergent. The dishwasher connects to Wifi and tracks your wash cycles; when you’re running low on detergent, it will automatically order more on Amazon. To get started, you select the type of detergent pods you want on GE’s app, and …
On this episode of The Cybersecurity Podcast, New America’s Peter Singer and Passcode’s Sara Sorcher interview Thomas Rid, a war studies professor at King’s College, about his new book, “Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History.” October 11, 2016 —As technology advances, computers are smarter than ever: They can understand human speech and even drive cars. But …
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GE GE’s connected dishwashers have become self sufficient. Thanks to a new integration with Amazon Dash Replenishment, they’ll take care of their own needs by ordering more detergent pods automatically when you’re close to running out. You use the GE Kitchen app to customize the size of the order and the low threshold that will …
Parag Garg, Wally Labs chief technology officer and chief product officer, and vice president of Sears Holdings; and Ryan Ciovacco, Sears president of Connected Living and WallyHome, with the new WallyHome Starter Kit in the company’s engineering office in Seattle’s University District. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) One of the people who sometimes jumps into …
Funny artificial intelligence is nothing new. We might be used to Siri’s bad jokes on our iPhones or messing with Amazon’s Alexa. And recently an AI robot Sophia tried out a pickup line on Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes last week. Now Google has joined the trend of human-like artificial intelligence to make AI a …
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