Smart Home Leader NexiaTM Integrates with Amazon Echo to Enable Hands-Free Whole-Home …

BROOMFIELD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Smart home leader Nexia™, a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), today gave subscribers the ability to control Nexia-certified devices in their home – starting with lighting, thermostats and plug-in wall modules – with simple voice commands through Amazon Echo. Additional features will be added soon. “Echo is one of the great technological breakthroughs […]

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Hardware Battlefield competitor Foobot wants to reduce pollution in your home

The last we heard from AirBoxLab, the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the Foobot, raised €2 million and shifted focus from simply monitoring air quality to improving it. When Foobot released a

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Newsy Lands on Amazon Alexa Platforms

Will distribute updates on top stories via Flash Briefings June 21, 2016 CINCINNATI—OTT news channel Newsy, which is owned by E.W. Scripps, has announced that it will now be offering news briefings on Amazon’s Alexa platforms, including Amazon Echo. Newsy will distribute Flash Briefings to Alexa, pre-recorded shorts. Newsy follows in the footsteps of NBC

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The Analytics of Language, Behavior, and Personality

Computational linguists and computer scientists, among them University of Texas professor Jason Baldridge, have been working for over fifty years toward algorithmic understanding of human language. They’re not there yet. They are, however, doing a pretty good job with important tasks such as entity recognition, relation extraction, topic modeling, and summarization. These tasks are accomplished via natural language processing

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Samsung Electronics Announces Vision for a Human-Centered Internet of Things, Planning $1.2 …

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman & CEO Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon unveiled today Samsung’s vision for ‘Human-Centered IoT,’ including a strategy to spend $1.2 billion over 4 years for U.S.-based Internet of Things (IoT) R&D and investments. This will be led by the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center, Global Innovation Center and Samsung Research America, part

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UE Boom speakers now have “voice integration” for Siri, Google voice search

The Ultimate Ears UE Boom 2 and Megaboom are popular, well-reviewed cylindrical Bluetooth speakers that allow you to stream music from your phone, tablet, computer, or other gadgets without wires. Their shape also makes them look a bit like Amazon’s Echo or Amazon Tap devices… and now you can UE’s speakers a lot like an

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Scripps' Newsy Launches on Amazon Alexa Platforms

Newsy, the E.W. Scripps-owned OTT channel, Tuesday joined the growing ranks of news outlets offering news briefings on Amazon’s voice-enabled Alexa platforms such as Amazon Echo. The millennial-oriented Newsy will distribute regular updates on top stories via Flash Briefings – pre-recorded shorts furnished by participating news organizations. Last week, NBC Owned Television Stations became the first

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