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Amazon's Alexa Will Gauge Your Mood, Decide When You Need Time-Out

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) hopes to tweak its digital assistant, Alexa, to better help it sense users’ moods by picking up on the tone of voice. After launching its first-ever Bluetooth speaker, Amazon Echo, in 2014, Amazon has been eager to secure Alexa’s position in markets because many rival companies have also launched their own versions …

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Siri: Once a Flake, Now Key to Apple's Future

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ENLARGE At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote in San Francisco Monday, Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, announced that Siri would be opened to third-party developers. Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler The Wall Street Journal CANCEL Biography @geoffreyfowler geoffreyfowler Google+ [email protected] June 14, 2016 8:00 a.m. ET 12 …

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Why The Experts Can't Seem To Agree On WWDC

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Apple has almost always been a company that has elicited strong feelings — from customers, from non-customers, from tech journalists. Until recently, those feelings were more or less positive and mostly based in adulation. Of late, with falling hardware sales and its air of invincibility pierced, those feelings are getting more complicated. All things that …

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Apple's new messaging, voice opportunities are significant, if uninspired

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Lyft’s iPhone app is now integrated with Siri Apple has opened both Siri and iMessage to developers, taking advantage of the significant interest in voice-based services and next-generation messaging to attract marketers and breathe new life into the iPhone. With iPhone sales dropping as the smartphone market matures, Apple is enlisting the help of marketers …

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iOS 10 announced: everything you need to know

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Your iPad is on track for an update coming soon. iOS 10 was announced on June 13, 2016 at the beginning of their WWDC developer conference, available first as a developer preview, then to be made available to all in the new Beta program, with final release expected in the fall of 2016. ADVERTISEMENT We …

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Apple refreshes tvOS with a horde of improvements

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Support for HomeKit and the Internet of Things is also on the table. Developers can get their hands on a preview of the new tvOS today, while …

Software changes, Siri and Pizza

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Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant on Apple hand-held devices like the iPhone and iPad will soon be able to order pizza for you, or check your bank balance or call a cab for you, and help you in other ways Siri could not until now. On Monday Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …

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Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Know When You’re in a Bad Mood

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The race to get the fanciest virtual personal assistant is officially on, and it looks like Amazon’s Alexa is going to be winning the edge with a new trick.

WSJ: A smarter-than-ever Siri is coming to iPhone and the Mac

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Amazon’s Alexa, the voice assistant from the Echo property device, is quite well-liked with consumers, even although it really is younger than Siri. In addition to&nbsp…

Health care gets connected (literally) with patients via tech boost

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The health care industry is turning to high tech to help consumers think healthy. Even with hacking threats and privacy breaches everywhere, technology and health companies are using connected health — an emerging field that links patients and doctors remotely — to boost health care analysis and diagnoses. With that in mind, the AT&T Foundry …

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