It’s no wonder titans of tech are locked in an epic battle of the robots, racing furiously to produce the best virtual assistant. Their respective help-bots — Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana — promise consumers one of the most valuable commodities in the world: free time. Thanks to the sudden acceleration […]
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Amazon The latest iteration of Amazon’s Fire TV Stick, first launched in the US last October, is finally UK-bound. While the little streaming dongle still won’t admit 4K is a thing, it boasts a quad-core processor that Amazon says makes it 30 percent faster than the previous generation of Fire TV Stick. Navigating around the
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Thought you might find this interesting HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to top doctors via video, text, and voice has launched a voice-activated Doctor A.I. through Amazon’s Alexa. Powered by artificial intelligence and a voice-activated interface, Doctor A.I. gives Alexa users personalized, doctor-recommended insights, helping them find the right care at
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ARKANSAS – Home sweet home has a different meaning in 2017. It’s not quite Jetson-like living, but technology has definitely made our lives easier, or in some cases, more complicated. From Apple TV to your Nest Thermostat, smart devices help simplify day to day activities, but they’re also capturing our private information. We looked into
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Cisco and SAS plan to link their hardware and software for IoT analytics across an industrial network. Cisco and analytics leader SAS have announced a new edge-to-enterprise analytics platform targeting Internet of Things use cases. The companies tout the platform as the “industry’s first validated architecture for edge-to-enterprise IoT analytics.” The reference architecture combines Cisco’s
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At the opening ceremony of the new Watson IoT centre in Germany, IBM announced a number of new partnerships to promote the use of the IoT technology. Consumer electronics giant has opened on Thursday a new $200 million Internet of Things (IoT) headquarters in Munich, Germany. According to IBM, it is the company’s largest investment
Why it matters to you Forget needing to spend extra money on newfangled smart home devices — the Bond IR blaster makes ordinary appliances smarter in a matter of minutes. Despite its intention on transforming houses, the smart home boom came with one important caveat: To upgrade to the latest trend, people needed to buy
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In 2015 alone, there were more than 13.4 billion devices connected globally, which is almost twice the human population, EDUCAUSE reports. These days connected devices extend far beyond smartphones and notebook computers. The rise of the Internet of Things means that literally anything — from slow cookers to vending machines — can be connected to
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Few things make you simultaneously wish you were in someone’s shoes and feel so glad that you’re not as watching someone jam out to a Paul McCartney concert via an immersive virtual reality headset in front of a room full of people. Yes, the guy who donned the headset and boogied down at the start
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Lenovo Health has joined forces with Orbita, a connected home healthcare technology vendor, to unveil a virtual home care system at HIMSS17 based on two recently debuted products: Lenovo Smart Assistant and Orbita Voice. Lenovo’s Smart Assistant, first previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is a voice-controlled speaker for the home that combines
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