Josh Miller/CNET In an effort to unite the smart-home market under a single networking protocol, Google/Alphabet’s Nest today launched OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread protocol. The Thread Group, a nonprofit company first announced in July 2014, introduced the Thread protocol in hopes that IoT partners would work together to make the multiprotocol smart-home […]
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(Photo : Getty Images) A lot of people yet are unaware of the fact that Apple’s artificially intelligent voice assistant Siri was actually not developed by Apple themselves. Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence in Siri, Apple’s digital voice assistant for natural language queries on a smartphone. A lot of people yet
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By Cailey Rizzo KAYAK and Amazon are bringing flight planning to Alexa, the virtual assistant in Amazon’s smart home products. Launching Tuesday, the KAYAK integration provides a voice-activated travel service to let users ask about travel options using their voice and an Alexa-enabled device. Users can track live flights, find out what destinations are within
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Apple’s Siri creators debut Viv, a AI driven personal assistant cum butler Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here to demonstrate his latest creation. In a world-first, the public got the first look of Viv, the artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant that aims to lap rivals with its
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Planning a stress-free vacation can be one of the most stressful tasks on your to-do list if you’re not strategic in your data collection. Luckily there are a wide-array of tools and websites that make booking, scheduling and updating your itinerary a breeze. Starting this week Alexa, the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo,
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Lexi and Roger can turn your phone into an Amazon Echo, but with limitations. As someone who recently bought—and was quickly enchanted by—Amazon’s Echo connected speaker, I’ve been thinking of ways to get its Alexa virtual assistant into more rooms of the house. Of course, I could just buy another Echo speaker, or some other
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Amazon’s Alexa service has slowly been getting more and more new features since its launch last year. It can now control your thermostat, your lighting, and even summon your Tesla for you. And now it will help you book your travel, thanks to KAYAK. If you’re not familiar with KAYAK, it’s one of the biggest
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Apple has surely turned up its game. Popular star, Neil Patrick Harris has been spotted in Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest iPhone 6s TV promo. Marketing for Siri, the latest Apple advertisement shows Neil Patrick use his virtual assistant in hands-free mode. The TV spot adds to a growing list of TV commercials launched by the
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One of the men who created Siri says he’s created a voice controlled artificial intelligence tool that’s smarter and more adaptive than the likes of Siri, Google Now and Amazon Alexa. According to Dag Kittlaus, the new virtual assistant system named Viv has several key advantages: It’s better able to parse complex natural language requests.
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The travel industry is talking a lot about voice-powered search these days, thanks in part to Alexa — a personal assistant developed by Amazon that uses artificial intelligence to understand simple voice commands. Skyscanner was the first travel search company to tap the power of Alexa, enabling consumers to search for flights by speaking. Today
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