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Comedy Central is providing the most comprehensive and multiplatform look in late night of the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH will feature increased convention coverage programming and additional content, a unique on-the-ground activation in Cleveland, launches on SiriusXM and Amazon, and a series of specials on Snapchat. The […]

The Comedy Central show will be the only late-night entry to broadcast from the locations of both the DNC and RNC conventions in Philadelphia and Cleveland, respectively. The Daily Show is going all in for the upcoming political conventions. The Trevor Noah-hosted program on Monday announced an ambitious, multiplatform strategy to cover both the DNC and

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah today unveiled more details of its plans for the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. They includes increased programming and additional content, a unique on-the-ground activation in Cleveland for the RNC, launches on SiriusXM and Amazon and a series of specials on Snapchat. REX/Shutterstock The Daily Show already announced that it will originate

To date, the most successful implementations of artificial intelligence in the consumer-facing space have been from the biggest players on the market. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo have become near-household products, but that doesn’t mean there’s no more room for smaller players to shake up the future of AI. In interviews with The Verge, several

Pop quiz on this Monday morning, so grab your coffee and look alive. True or false: Thanks to mobile devices and apps, American consumers spend more time today shopping than they did in 2003. If you said false, pat yourself on the back, tell everyone in the office you’re a genius and make them buy you

TechTalk – Smart Homes: Interview with Tom Guy, of Hive / British Gas, about smart homes and intelligent buildings of the future. Courtesy of Currys PC World The phrase “bricks and mortar” is till used to conjure up images of buildings, residential or commercial. Usually, the phrase differentiates between something virtual or exists only in computers, say a website

Among all the AI helpers from major tech companies, Google Assistant is the most mysterious. Google has billed Assistant as one component in “the next evolution of Google.” Others, such as Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land, have gone a step further, imploring us to think of Assistant as “Google 2.0.” Backchannel’s Steven Levy has