The creators of Siri, Adam Cheyer and Dag Kittlaus have created a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistance named “Viv.” Last week, the creators claimed during a press conference that Viv is more powerful than Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google’s Google Now. During Disrupt NY 2016, the creators gave a public debut of Viv …
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The folks behind the well-known Apple assistant Siri Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer take the wraps off Viv, the next AI that’s designed to “outsmart” the voice of iPhone, Amazon Alexa, Cortana and Google Now. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference held in New York, Kittlaus showed off the capabilities of the virtual assistant during an onstage …
If you’re looking for a financial justification for getting smart home devices, Travelers Insurance just provided one. The company announced recently that customers who own qualifying devices can get a discount on their home insurance policy. The move makes sense, considering that some devices that are part of a smart home solution can actually help …
UPDATED: Amazon has announced 4 new Echo devices this week! Read our rundown of the new features here A growing number of people have been using Amazon Echo, with the smart home device’s reputation almost exploding lately. To take advantage of this momentum, Amazon just announced two spinoff portable versions called Dot and Tap. They’re cheaper …
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As Amazon Echo continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, people are starting to compare it more and more to Apple’s Siri. While certain fans of Amazon’s Alexa AI get bent out of shape when this happens, the fact is it’s a sign of the technology actually threatening one of the biggest tech giants out …
Alexa is the newest member of the household and yes she is attentive and listening to you carefully. In fact, she is recording everything almost everything you say and storing it on Amazon servers. Does that make you uncomfortable? If it doesn’t, it should. While Amazon has a reputation for being a pro-customer company with a secure platform …
Move over Apple and Google, because Amazon has stealthily become a new leader in the advancement of smart home technology. Both tech giants absolutely dominate the smartphone business and are dutifully trying to do the same to infotainment systems in vehicles, but when it comes to the home things are much different. For reasons everyone …
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Plenty of people have fallen in love with the Amazon Echo. The smart home/speaker device can be a little hard to describe to the uninitiated, but for those who have experienced it, the technology is hard to live without. NOTE: Click here for Amazon’s own guides to using Echo Tap and Dot. Now Amazon is …
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Quite a few people have taken advantage of the smart thermostats made by Nest, allowing them to adjust settings from anywhere they have a data connection. Now a big change is coming by the end of March as Nest plans to close down MyEnergy, the energy data service it picked up three years ago. While …