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Amazon’s Powerful Alexa Artificial Intelligence Engine Has Learned 1000 Skills

We’re not sure that many people expected great things to come from Amazon’s Echo speaker when it was announced back in late 2014. After all, a voice-activated speaker seemed like a superfluous gadget in our increasingly crowded digital lives. However, Echo, which is powered by the Alexa engine, has become one of Amazon’s most popular …

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Amazon Alexa comes to Pebble Core, Y Combinator backs Women…

Pebble has announced that Amazon Alexa is integrating with Pebble Core, which means Amazon’s voice services will go to a fully independent, 3G-connected wearable device for the first time. Pebble Core backers on Kickstarter will get to experience Alexa first on Pebble’s wearable device, which will start to ship in early 2017. “Experiencing Amazon Alexa …

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Jim Cramer — Don’t Raise Interest Rates Now, Janet Yellen

A jam-packed June continues with Friday’s disappointing jobs report and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s scheduled speech on the economy in Philadelphia Monday. TheStreet’s Jim Cramer said the general assumption going into the report was that good or bad, the Fed was likely to hike interest rates this summer. That’s why Cramer, co-manager of the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio, had …

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Amazon Alexa now has over 1000 Skills, up from 135 in January

Amazon’s Echo speaker, and its descendents, Dot and Tap, are growing in popularity as consumers’ preferred “smart” speakers and the voice computing platform for the home. But they’re also encouraging a wave of developer interest, in the form of add-ons dubbed “skills” which allow you to teach Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa new tricks, like calling …

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The Pebble Core Will Be The First Standalone Wearable To Integrate Amazon Alexa

The Pebble Core just became much more interesting, as the company announced that it will integrate Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant technology. Users can still participate in the Kickstarter campaign to be among the first ones to receive the device.  ( Pebble | Kickstarter ) Advertisement Pebble Technology recently went back to its roots by launching new …

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