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When there aren’t blenders blending, dogs barking, or TVs blaring in the background, automated speech recognition (ASR) technologies like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are amazing. But consumers and companies are pushing use cases into increasingly challenging situations with more background noise, which leads to less successful outcomes. With so many companies increasingly turning to […]

Tweet Share Apple wants you to know it’s been working on AI for years now — you just didn’t know it. In a new feature by Stephen Levy in Backchannel, some of the company’s top execs and machine learning experts hammer home this message, pointing out all the ways in which AI is used in Apple’s

Bret Kinsella, CMO, XAPPmedia What if your brand had no internet presence? No website. No apps. If consumers became interested in your brand, they would only find things on the internet that other people had decided were important. You would have no voice of your own. To most marketers this situation is unthinkable. It would

Global revenue from connected smart audio devices is expected to more than triple in the next four years and will come from two distinct types of products. By 2020, more than $5 billion in revenue will be generated from the smart audio market, up from more than $1 billion this year, according to new research

“Prime Now, Drive Now” started delivering Elantra test-drives only in Los Angeles and Orange County during the weekend of August 20 and August 21. Image Source: Toms Guide This past Friday, August 19, the U.S. branch of the automaker Hyundai Motor Company issued a press release announcing the pioneering limited service “Prime Now. Drive Now.”

In addition to being an actor, Ashton Kutcher has become, somewhat strangely, a prominent tech investor. He’s put stake in everything from Uber and Airbnb to Spotify, and most recently, he helped Motorola launch its Moto Mods. Now, in preparation for baby number two with wife Mila Kunis, the actor has decided to bring some