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Amazon proudly announced today it’s adding its 10,000th skill to the Echo, the company’s artificially intelligent speaker. About a year ago, I wrote a love letter to my Echo praising it as the ultimate gadget for a lazy stoner. The prospect of greatness seemed so obvious. The speaker was quickly getting smarter, and soon I’d […]

Amazon has announced another Alexa-related milestone: more than 10,000 skills are now available. (A “skill” is Alexa’s equivalent of a mobile app.) The skill that helped Alexa reach 10,000 is a musical game called Beat the Intro, which invites players to guess song titles based just on the opening bars of music before the singing

Recently, tech leaders including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and billionaire Bill Gates warned about robots taking over jobs. However, a new report shows people are not that concerned about job automation.                                                                        

Honeywell International has filed an antitrust suit in an effort to stop a merger of two of its competitors in the smart home technology business. Honeywell seeks to stop the $140 million acquisition of two divisions of Icontrol Networks by Alarm.com, claiming the combined entity would have 70 percent share of the market for software

Alexa has skills.Image: Getty Images By Sasha Lekach2017-02-23 23:20:44 UTC Alexa: Congratulate yourself. Amazon’s digital assistant for the Echo and other devices officially has 10,000 skills, the company announced Thursday. The lucky 10,000th skill: Beat the Intro, a game that tests your ability to recognize songs.  It joins a growing list of talents, including the

iHeartMedia’s Q4 2016 revenue increased $40.1 million, or 4.5%, thanks to strong political revenue. Even when you back out political, iHeart’s Q4 revenue was up $19.9 million, or 2.2%. And, with that, iHeartMedia has turned in 15 consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth. CFO Richard Bressler said, “We believe very few U.S. Media companies have

D-Link have announced their latest connected device, the new Omna 180 Cam HD. This is the first in its Omna family of Apple HomeKit-enabled devices which will actually sell through Apple’s online store. The camera will also be sold in Apple’s Australian retail stores later this month. The Omna 180 Cam HD is designed to let

Related Articles There are lot of connected security cameras on the market but there aren’t many that are as easy to set up as D-Link’s Omna 180 Cam HD which is available through Apple online and in stores. D-Link’s new Omna 180 Cam HD is the first camera that works seamlessly with the Apple HomeKit

Amazon Alexa, the virtual assistant that can usually be found being ordered around in people’s homes, now has 10,000 apps, or “skills” in Amazon parlance. The milestone is a major one for Alexa, the smart software in Amazon Echo connected speakers—and increasingly in other devices too. Since hitting the market in June 2015, the voice

5498878 Amazon has really proved itself as a hero in recent months. First, it stood with Ivanka Trump by refusing to cave to liberal demands to stop selling her products. Now, as the government demands it give up user privacy data contained on its popular Alexa devices, it has remained firm. The Amazon Echo is