The NXP PICO platform for Android Things, up close and personal. Image source: NXP. Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google division has released a slew of specialized Android versions. This week, the Android Things platform for devices under the Internet of Things umbrella made its first appearance. Investors in the semiconductor sector should pay attention, especially those […]
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) [Trend Analysis] luring active investment momentum, shares a loss -0.88% to $790.80. The search giant’s voice-activated speaker, Google (GOOGL) Home started shipping earlier last month and was put up against competition with Amazon’s Alexa speaker. One of the drawbacks regarding Google’s intelligent speaker has been that it doesn’t offer support for several mainstream
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Let the voice-activated battle commence. Over the last 18 months, Amazon’s Alexa has ruled the voice-controlled personal assistant market. With over five million units sold in the United States alone, the Amazon Echo is the dominant device among voice user interfaces (non-smartphone division) and is likely to be sitting under thousands of Christmas trees on
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Take a step back for a look at the big picture and it’s clear that 2016 was a remarkable year for bots and virtual assistants. Within the span of a few months this spring, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft all made plans to grow bot ecosystems and invited developers to build bots or virtual assistants integrations
As the story goes, in 1969 Kevin Ashton coined the phrase “Internet of Things” while working for Procter & Gamble. Much of today’s world and the future will be potentially ruled by the IOT reinforced by artificial intelligence (AI). Today a quick search of the phrase “Internet of Things” yields more than 34 million results.
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Shutterstock What could ever be dumb about the fast-arriving internet of things — that seemingly inevitable assemblage of ever more networked devices, products and everything in-between? Dumbness? That would be us: you and me, working-class and professional alike, equally vulnerable! At least, we’ve been made to believe that we are the dumb-end: we’re slower, less
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The Opportunity in Numbers Transparency Market Research says that the global anti-snoring devices and snoring surgery market, by device type and surgical procedure, stood at US$16.07 bn and US$357.15 mn, respectively, in 2015. The anti-snoring devices and snoring surgery market, by device type and surgical procedure, is projected to expand at a CAGR of 3.91%