It will now be easier to add “Skills” – new functionality by way of voice-activated apps to Amazon’s smart speaker Echo, and its other Alexa-powered devices, Amazon announced this morning. The company has finally given its Skills “app store” a makeover, and is introducing a means of adding new Skills by voice, too. Amazon’s Echo and …
Follow your Fitbit progress, order an Uber, and integrate with IFTTT through the Wink Relay smart home gadget. Wink Relay, the smart home hub that acts as a light switch replacement, is getting a few updates today. Now you can follow your Uber through the Wink Relay’s touch-screen interface. If you have more than one …
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News Feed Item Alexa Skills Kit Turns One, Adds New Features for Skill Discovery By Business Wire Article Rating: June 28, 2016 09:06 AM EDT (NASDAQ:AMZN)—One year ago, Amazon opened Alexa to developers, making it simple and free for them to build Alexa skills and integrate Alexa into their own products. Today, tens of …
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Amazon’s Alexa powers the Echo.Amazon Amazon’s voice-controlled virtual assistant Alexa is showing strong growth, just a year after it was made available to developers, according to the latest figures shared by the company. Amazon said on Tuesday that Alexa now has over 1,400 “skills,” or the built-in commands that can carry out various tasks, such as calling a …
Nest Thermostat, one of the few items of tech I’ve purchased within the past few years that I often refer to as “an item I can’t live without,” is discounted at the moment in celebration of July 4th. Nest has dropped the 3rd gen model (the newest version) by $50, so to get into a …
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If you feel a bit behind the times when it comes to SEO and social media, I can’t blame you. I read the news every day, adjust my company’s and clients’ strategies regularly and still feel behind. That’s because trends never stay the same for very long, and there are always new ones emerging to challenge …
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iOS is one of the largest and most successful platforms ever created. With a user base of 1 billion, iOS (along with Android) serves as a platform for several multi billion dollar behemoths like Uber. WWDC 2016, Apple’s annual developer conference is mostly being painted as an evolution rather than a revolution. However, there was …
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“Alexa, pay my rent.” Citigroup said it is testing Amazon’s Alexa voice-command assistant as part of an upgrade to its mobile banking app. The service will be offered initially to premium Citigold customers, who will be able to pay bills, transfer funds and make peer-to-peer payments with other Citi customers via voice commands. Citi is …
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) surely wants to boost its sales in any way possible, even if it has to cannibalize its own offerings. The e-commerce giant just wants to retain its customers and for that it has now plans to ramp up an offering that was once mistaken to be an April Fool’s joke. The Wall …
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) autopilot system detects pedestrians on the road, but won’t necessarily stop for them – at least according to this test. KmanAuto just posted a YouTube video of a test they ran to see if the Model S would stop at the detection of a pedestrian and it failed. Tesla Autopilot tested by …
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