If you haven’t heard about Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, and its incarnation as the Echo consumer device, you should definitely check it out. Alexa is a centerpiece of Amazon’s Smart Home push, and quickly growing to become one of the most promising attempts at making a successful Smart Home hub, connecting all other devices around …
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Updated: Jun 20, 2016 – 5:55 PM Thousands of people around Washington State can now say “what’s the news” out loud and hear a 2-minute update from KIRO 7 Anchors. KIRO 7 is now on Alexa, the cloud-powered woman’s voice that’s the brains behind the Amazon Echo, Dot, Tap, and Fire TV. Our anchors will …
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News Feed Item Breakdance Contests, Drone Obstacles, TV Shootouts, getgeeked, Student Innovators and More at CE Week 2016 CE Week Where NY Meets Tech to Do Business with a Dose of Fun, June 21-23 By PR Newswire Article Rating: June 20, 2016 03:00 PM EDT NEW YORK, June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — CE Week kicks off …
Frederick, MD (PRWEB) June 20, 2016 Blue Pillar, provider of the world’s first self-configurable Energy Network of Things™ platform that connects and controls distributed energy assets, announced today that Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel Corporation, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. …
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Michael Seto Comcast has a plan to take on the likes of Netflix, Apple, and even Amazon, and the Olympics this summer will be its big test. Comcast’s vision for the future of TV revolves around a technology called “X1,” which is basically the company’s version of Siri. The pitch is that X1 will be …
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(Apple)The Apple Watch by Apple Apple Watch 2 has continued to be a favorite subject of rumors and speculations all over the internet for quite some time now. According to the latest reports, the original iteration has been spotted online sold at a discount, which is a good indication that a new model is arriving …
Research from Gartner has claimed 25% households in developed economies will utilise the services of digital assistants, such as Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant, on smartphones as the primary means to interact with the connected home. The user experience is an area which has been prioritized by numerous tech giants, including those in the consumer …
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At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends that I suggested would set the agenda for payments innovation and commerce reinvention in 2016. The foundation for those six trends was the ability for innovators to leverage the near ubiquity of mobile devices and the ability to connect those devices …
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At first glance, hotel-booking giant Priceline Group and alternative accommodations hub Airbnb may not seem like obvious competitors. But as with all great rivalries, each company needs what the other has in abundance. Unicorn and media-magnet Airbnb has always been great at communicating who it is and what it does. Airbnb brought hotel alternatives like …
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates recently called artificial intelligence “the holy grail that anyone in computer science has been thinking about” during Vox Media’s Code Conference. Gates discussed the rapid progress of speech recognition and computer vision technologies over the past five years, and noted that “the dream is finally arriving.” If that dream arrives, tech …
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