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 […]
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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
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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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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
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
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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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City explores smart technologies and deployments Schenectady, New York, is one of many cities across the country seeking to improve its operations and efficiency through “internet of things” deployments. With a population of about 65,000 people, the city is exploring smart lighting, a wireless network and various sensor and camera technologies as part of a new Smart City
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Alexa, the voice service that connects to Amazon’s Echo speakers, can provide users with just about anything—including previews from Lady Gaga’s unreleased album. When Echo owners asked Alexa to “play Joanne by Lady Gaga,” the title of the singer’s fifth studio album set to be released on Oct. 21, they could hear 30-second clips of
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