Amazon Lex is the tech that powers Alexa, which is used in the Amazon Echo (above) and Fire TV. Image: Amazon With the rise of personal assistant chatbots, the tools required for organizations to build their own assistants are being moved to the cloud to give developers the ability to leverage these technologies in their …
Continuing my series of top draft prospects to watch I’m going to shift my focus from the Midwest to the East Coast. New York City, to be exact. After a 5-11 season, the New York Jets secured the sixth overall pick in the 2017 draft. As with all teams this high up in the draft, they …
A shopper checks shoes at a store in Tokyo’s Ameyoko shopping district. Wearable technology from IBM and Visa could allow you to make on-the-go payments and purchases with your shoes. The companies announced yesterday a mobile payment technology known as Watson Internet of Things (IoT) that will allow users to make purchases through a wide range of …
You can now shop from a Google Home device, similar to shopping from Amazon’s Alexa devices. (Source: Google Store) COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – You can now shop from a Google Home device, similar to shopping from Amazon’s Alexa devices. Google’s Home now has the ability to order and purchase items through Google Express with just …
We are marching toward certain doom at the hands of an angry Skynet of our own invention. Need proof? This week a school was attacked by its own soft drink vending machines. You read that right. A university found that its internet was choking and stuttering. An investigation showed the on-campus vending machines were waging …
Pushing beyond mobile phones, AT&T is expanding its cellular network to connect commercial smart devices, from water meters that detect excess toilet flushes to soda dispensers that learn what people prefer to drink. The company has tested the technology in San Ramon, and this week it announced plans to expand its upgraded network throughout the …
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Thomas Friedman wrote a piece for the New York Times last month in which he coined a phrase that may define how we think about ourselves as human workers in the age of intelligent machines. What makes us different from the intelligent machines which can reason, process and decide faster and better than we ever …
Joint offering improves reliability, security, and delivery of critical health data for the mobile and connected healthcare market ROCHESTER, NY – FEBRUARY 17, 2017 – Integron, a leading provider of managed services for the connected health and Internet of Things (IoT) industry, today announced it is partnering with iVEDiX to showcase mobile connected health solutions …
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Like many people, I was really looking forward to the original Apple Watch when it first debuted. And a short time after it came out, I know I wasn’t the only one disappointed. Putting it mildly, many of my expectations fell short. Since then, I’ve tested several smartwatches from various brands. And they’ve gotten better …
(Photo : Anthony Harvey / Stringer) LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 06: Henry Cavill attends the Huawei P9 global launch at Battersea Evolution on April 6, 2016 in London, England. Huawei Technologies Co. is up to compete with Apple Siri. The company now plans its own voice assistant for smartphone users. The third-largest smartphone maker in …