Facebook announced a pretty radical change to chatbots. Instead of improving the A.I. or adding better natural language processing, the social networking giant has provided a way for chatbot developers to make things easier on users. At the same time, the Facebook Messenger platform update announced last Friday adds “quick replies” and other buttons to […]
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S. Somasegar Crunch Network Contributor S. Somasegar is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group and the former head of Microsoft’s Developer Division. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network You can hardly talk to a technology executive or developer today without talking about artificial intelligence, machine learning or bots. Madrona recently
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Amazon’s Prime Day is less than week away now, but the discounts have begun in the form of Countdown Deal. The biggest savings, of course, are reserved for next Tuesday, July 12, when more than 100,000 items will go on sale throughout the day. But Alexa — the personality and voice of Amazon Echo —
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With more voice-based ordering capabilities, Amazon Echo digital assistant users can simply tell the device what products they want shipped. Amazon.com Inc. continues to lessen the need for a consumer to look at a screen to place an order. With the latest round of updates for its Echo digital assistant device, Amazon has enabled Echo
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Changes in browsing behavior, preferences for content consumption, and adoption of voice search have put content creation at the top of most marketers’ lists this year. It not only improves customer engagement, but provides a lead generation tool. The biggest challenge is ensuring that content lands on the correct page. Content creators looking for a
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App puts Alexa into palm of your hand. The unexpected success of the Amazon Echo has already prompted Google and Apple to up their voice-recognition device priorities but Android users can now talk to Alexa through their smartphone. Toronto-based Unified Computer Intelligence Corporation (UCIC) has launched an app called Lexa that allows people to access the
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We all know what it’s like to lose track of work tasks, panic about life admin and procrastinate. Sometimes you have too much to do and not enough time to do it. Can wearable tech actually help us get things done? There’s certainly a growing number of wearables and apps aimed at making us more
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There’s a new app that puts Amazon Alexa in your pocket, and it’s called Lexa. Available for Android, the Lexa app uses Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service to let mobile users interact with Alexa and get a response…the same way they would with an Amazon Echo device. The company bids its app as a way for
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People enjoy the muddy thrills and spills on a waterslide dug into a hillside in Waimauku on February 23, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand. Phil Walter/Getty Images Following the July 4th holiday and the strongest week of the year for the market, stocks slid with all the major averages posting losses. Concerns from overseas, specifically
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Ethan Miller/Staff/Getty Images Comcast thinks its new “X1” voice-controlled cable box will be the future of TV, and now that future will include Netflix. Recode’s Kara Swisher on Tuesday broke the news that Comcast would allow Netflix on its new platform, and the pair of companies gave the following statement: “Comcast and Netflix have reached