In the widely accepted market of virtual assistants, the most popular ones are Apple’s Siri, Cortana and the Google assistant. However, there are a lot of those who are beginning to drool over Amazon Echo and its surprisingly dependent voice assistant – Alexa. Currently, you need to own an Amazon Echo to see what Alexa …
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Users can now tell Alexa to control their air conditioners rather than using Tado’s app. Credit: tado Tado debuted a small improvement to its smart A/C control device, offering customers the option to use Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant to control Tado-connected air conditioners. To use it, all you’ll need do is add the Alexa Tado …
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Brandeis students tap their programming prowess to build apps in two months Justice Brandeis Semester exposes students to new ways of learning and software industry leaders Photo/Miriam Hiersteiner By Julian Cardillo ’14June 24, 2016 Brandeis students are discovering their inner programmer during the Voice, Web and Mobile Applications program offered this summer through the Justice …
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Comcast and Alarm.com are buying up smart-home platform provider Icontrol to beef up their ability to develop connected home technologies in-house. The smart home concept has been slowly gaining steam in the past few years; it’s no longer just a Jetsons fantasy. Even still, most people are investing in a few smart devices related to …
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The new Samsung Gear Fit2 tracker doesn’t really fit the category assigned to it – rather, it’s a wearable that falls somewhere between fitness tracker and smartwatch. In other words, it’s not quite either. Fit2 has instead taken components from Gear Fit and Samsung Gear S2 to create something a little different. What you get …
When Tradeshift wanted to enter the mid-market level, it needed to create a business payments and expense management solution with a few characteristics. It needed to be intuitive, knowing that mid-market firms don’t always have the resources at hand to handle complex systems the same way major corporations do. It also needed to integrate a virtual card …
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Messenger would open up to branded chatbots at the F8 conference in April, 1-800 Flowers’ was the example he used in his demo. “I love this one,” he said. “It’s pretty ironic: To order from 1-800-Flowers, you never have to call 1-800-Flowers again.” With the “chatbot gold rush” now in …
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Apple wants your opinion on Apple TV.Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac Apple is inviting users to provide their feedback on how they stream video. Its latest survey includes questions about the experience on iPad and the Apple TV, and could be used to shape future improvements to its products and services. Apple occasionally distributes its …
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The good. Amazon Alexa-enabled; great sound quality; convenient family messaging hub The bad. Not-so-great battery life; Alexa has a temper; spotty Bluetooth connection The bottom line. 3/5 Meet Triby, the first-ever portable speaker to come with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant baked into it. Actually, Triby has the honor of being the first non-Amazon-made device to …
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Handsome and made of hardwood, this timekeeper manages your digital distractions so you don’t have to In the pledge to remain always in-the-know, our connectedness has become a hindrance against itself, distracting us from the world it was supposed to bring us closer to. In essence, then, with its reclaimed wood facade, the Ingrein Clock, …
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