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Hardware Battlefield competitor Foobot wants to reduce pollution in your home

The last we heard from AirBoxLab, the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the Foobot, raised €2 million and shifted focus from simply monitoring air quality to improving it. When Foobot released a …

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Newsy Lands on Amazon Alexa Platforms

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Will distribute updates on top stories via Flash Briefings June 21, 2016 CINCINNATI—OTT news channel Newsy, which is owned by E.W. Scripps, has announced that it will now be offering news briefings on Amazon’s Alexa platforms, including Amazon Echo. Newsy will distribute Flash Briefings to Alexa, pre-recorded shorts. Newsy follows in the footsteps of NBC …

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The Analytics of Language, Behavior, and Personality

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Computational linguists and computer scientists, among them University of Texas professor Jason Baldridge, have been working for over fifty years toward algorithmic understanding of human language. They’re not there yet. They are, however, doing a pretty good job with important tasks such as entity recognition, relation extraction, topic modeling, and summarization. These tasks are accomplished via natural language processing …

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One-Sentence Reviews of the Week 2 Mainstage Performances at NW New Works Festival

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Three cheers for The Three Yells’ super-creepy deconstruction of Giselle. Tim Summers I know I said that attendance at NW New Works Festival 2016 was mandatory. And yet here I Slog before you, only having seen half of the weekend’s shows. I know. I’m smh at myself. I mean, I’m the one who missed Gary …

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Industry Insights: The Challenges Behind New User Interfaces

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By AppDynamics Blog Article Rating: June 21, 2016 12:01 PM EDT The future of computing will be bifurcated. On one hand, there will be entirely new models for computing such as voice, autonomous agents, and bots, with no traditional user interfaces. On the extreme opposite hand, there will be new user interfaces augmented with …

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UE Boom speakers now have “voice integration” for Siri, Google voice search

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The Ultimate Ears UE Boom 2 and Megaboom are popular, well-reviewed cylindrical Bluetooth speakers that allow you to stream music from your phone, tablet, computer, or other gadgets without wires. Their shape also makes them look a bit like Amazon’s Echo or Amazon Tap devices… and now you can UE’s speakers a lot like an …

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One of the most popular Bluetooth speakers just hooked up with Siri

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Image: miles goscha/mashable By Raymond Wong2016-06-21 14:46:20 UTC Ultimate Ears’s UE Boom 2 and UE Megaboom, two of the most popular portable Bluetooth speakers around, are getting an upgrade to make them more like Amazon’s Alexa-equipped Tap. A new software update for the speakers’ apps (free on iOS and Android) adds Siri and Google Now, …

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Scripps' Newsy Launches on Amazon Alexa Platforms

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Newsy, the E.W. Scripps-owned OTT channel, Tuesday joined the growing ranks of news outlets offering news briefings on Amazon’s voice-enabled Alexa platforms such as Amazon Echo. The millennial-oriented Newsy will distribute regular updates on top stories via Flash Briefings – pre-recorded shorts furnished by participating news organizations. Last week, NBC Owned Television Stations became the first …

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Sensors Created To Turn Conventional Home Appliances Into Smart Devices

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LG Electronics said Monday it has rolled out attachable smart sensors and a device that can turn conventional home appliances into connected smart devices. As the nation’s second-largest electronics maker focuses on extending the coverage of its smart home technologies to outdated home appliances, expectations are that the smart device can be upgraded to support more …

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1000 skills: Amazon Alexa as a metaphor for the IoT developer community

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If you haven’t heard about Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, and its incarnation as the Echo consumer device, you should definitely check it out. Alexa is a centerpiece of Amazon’s Smart Home push, and quickly growing to become one of the most promising attempts at making a successful Smart Home hub, connecting all other devices around …

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