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Google Home opens door to third-party conversational interfaces

Dive Brief: Google has launched tools that enable developers to create mini voice-enabled interfaces for Google Home and Digital Assistant, Alphabet’s AI-driven assistant, according to a company post. The developer tools will allow third parties to deliver information, services, and assistance to consumers via interactions with Digital Assistant after they activate the assistant through the “OK, […]

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Amazon pairs with Conexant to create AudioSmart dev kit for Amazon Alexa

Amazon has partnered with Irvine CA based audio and voice solutions company Conexant Systems to accelerate the adoption of smart home appliances. Conexant It has released an Alexa Voice Service (AVS) approved AudioSmart 2-mic Development Kit designed for smart home applications. The kit consists of Conexant’s AudioSmart CX20921 hands-free voice input processor, and Alexa wake

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Company town + Internet of Things + Drones = total surveillance of remote mine workers

Rio Tinto is a giant UK/Australian mining corporation that operates many facilities in Australia’s remotest reaches, where there is no housing for workers, so the company ends up building “company towns” where their laborers live, closing the loop between home and worklife, and putting them both under control of a corporation; now the company is

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AthloTech's IoT Gear Could Help Young Soccer Players Up Their Game

Source: iStock Devon McKenney gets your attention with the opening to his pitch. “I am a huge part of the problem with youth sports,” he says with what seems at first to be arrogance. “I’m a hell of a soccer coach, and all of you would want your kids to work with me, but you

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BlackBerry Unveils Enterprise of Things with Mobile Security

BlackBerry Limited (BBRY – Free Report) launched its mobile security platform which is primarily designed for Enterprise of Things (EoT). The move marks the software-centric approach that BlackBerry intends to adopt after it announced to discontinue the manufacturing of mobile handsets earlier this year. The new security platform integrates all the previously acquired assets and

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Glance wants to put a smart mirror in your house, your gym, your hotel

Your bathroom mirror will soon show more than your reflection as you get ready for the day. Chicago startup Glance Displays has created an $1,800 smart mirror with a heads-up display to help you keep track of your schedule, your commute and whether to bring an umbrella — all while you shave, brush your teeth or style your hair.

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Sabre Labs distils global travel tech into three megatrends

Sabre Labs has launched its first-ever Emerging Technologies in Travel report, identifying the three megatrends it believes will dominate the travel tech landscape in 2017. The megatrends are connected intelligence, conversational interfaces and digital reality. And there are six specific technologies driving one or more of the megatrends: augmented reality, automation, indoor location, message based

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INTERVIEW: Holger Hampf, BMW Head of Customer Experience Design

Back in October, we attended the 100 Years celebration of BMW in Santa Monica where the main theme was the future of mobility. To learn more about the digital changes at BMW, we sat down with Holger Hampf, Head of Customer Experience Design, who talked to us about digital topics and user interface. Firstly, it must

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Doubling up on Alexa: How to use multiple Amazon Echo and Dots

Amazon is currently pushing the Echo and Echo Dot hard, making a push to dominate the connected home market before too many players – like Google – can catch up. The Amazon Echo got off to a flying start, establishing itself as one of the hottest smart home devices, assisted by the smaller Echo Dot,

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Legrand UK focuses on IoT with development programme

09.12.16 Legrand has introduced its ‘Eliot’ development programme dedicated to facilitating greater communication between its devices in the UK, following its US launch. In response to the growing presence of IoT in homes, the manufacturer’s Eliot scheme will work to improve how its line of AV equipment, door entry systems and lighting controls communicate with

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