Guests at Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas casino may find themselves sharing a room with an unexpected guest next month. That’s when the hotel magnate will begin equipping all 4,748 rooms with Echo, Amazon’s Alexa-embedded wireless speaker and home automation hub. The move, which Wynn describes as a hospitality industry first, will allow guests to […]
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I use my Amazon Echo a lot. Since importing one from the U.S. last year, I’ve started using web services that provide native integration with Alexa, the platform that powers Amazon’s speaker. Whenever I come across a new web service I could use, I check if they have an Alexa skill too. I like Amazon’s
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Gadget makers other than Amazon are adding the retailer’s Alexa AI platform to their own devices, making them smarter than ever before. The Amazon Echo Dot, the retailer’s puck-shaped smart speaker, is is killing it this year. Part of its success comes from its Alexa artificial intelligence software, which makes Amazon’s Echo lineup able to
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Buttons. Who needs ’em? Enlarge Image You’ll need a Logitech Hamony Hub in order to connect with Alexa. Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET Not Logitech Harmony users who also happen to own an Amazon Alexa product, that’s for sure. The universal remote maker already offered a fairly robust Alexa skill that lets the virtual voice assistant
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/EINPresswire.com/ — DALLAS, TX–(Marketwired – Dec 15, 2016) – Parks Associates released a new whitepaper today ahead of CES® 2017 that identifies the top 10 trends impacting the markets for consumer technology now and into 2017. Top 10 Consumer IoT Trends in 2017 notes U.S. broadband households currently own an average of more than eight
DALLAS, Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — MONI Smart Security, a subsidiary of Ascent Capital Group, Inc. (ASCMA), today announced it has been named “Connected Home Security Company of the Year” by IoT Breakthrough, an independent organization dedicated to helping the best Internet-of-Things (IoT) products and companies stand out in the industry. To see how MONI’s broad
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Consumer Reports: Digital Assistant: Google Home or Amazon Alexa? CONSUMER REPORTS — You may have seen ads for those home assistant speakers from Amazon and now Google. Experts at Consumer Reports explain how this technology shows a lot of promise. There’s an endless number of things you can ask a home assistant speaker. They can
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — USC — Even as education technology floods into classrooms across the world, educators haven’t always been able to make sure it’s making a difference. A new center at the University of Southern California will attempt to make that technology more informative for personalized learning and instruction. CHARIOT leaders, pictured
Google has snapped up the company which helped put Amazon’s Alexa onto the smartwatch. Cronologics which built an alternative platform to Android Wear, called Cronologics OS, helped a company called Imco develop the first smartwatch that ran Amazon’s assistant, Alexa. It is unknown how much Google paid for the acquisition. In its statement on Google’s
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