Amazon is quietly shaping the future of computing. The giant retailer created a popular voice-and cloud-based virtual assistant that’s smart enough to perform certain tasks and provide answers to our queries. Amazon doesn’t do voice better than Apple or Google, but Amazon nonetheless created a tool that made it easier for humans to talk to …
DALLAS — Monitronics has bolstered its smart home portfolio of products with the addition of the new Skill for Amazon Echo. The device allows homeowners to control and check the status of all their connected devices and quickly perform daily tasks such as locking the door, checking to ensure the security system is armed, adjusting …
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Stay Connected with Us! Follow TechnoBuffalo Want to know why Alexa is so smart and so popular? Because Amazon was wise enough to open up the smart assistant platform to third parties early on. As such, you have competitors like Siri playing catch up. And there’s a lot to do, especially since Amazon just announced …
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We’re not sure that many people expected great things to come from Amazon’s Echo speaker when it was announced back in late 2014. After all, a voice-activated speaker seemed like a superfluous gadget in our increasingly crowded digital lives. However, Echo, which is powered by the Alexa engine, has become one of Amazon’s most popular …
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Pebble has announced that Amazon Alexa is integrating with Pebble Core, which means Amazon’s voice services will go to a fully independent, 3G-connected wearable device for the first time. Pebble Core backers on Kickstarter will get to experience Alexa first on Pebble’s wearable device, which will start to ship in early 2017. “Experiencing Amazon Alexa …
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With more than 1,000 Skills under its belt, Amazon’s Alexa leads the pack in voice-controlled smart home assistants, but which should you try first and why? Read on for our pick of some of the best third-party integrations with Alexa, including why they’re important, and how you can try them out without splashing out any …
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A jam-packed June continues with Friday’s disappointing jobs report and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s scheduled speech on the economy in Philadelphia Monday. TheStreet’s Jim Cramer said the general assumption going into the report was that good or bad, the Fed was likely to hike interest rates this summer. That’s why Cramer, co-manager of the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio, had …
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Pebble announced Thursday that it will ship its Core clip-on with Amazon’s Alexa technology sometime in “early 2017,” making it the “first fully-mobile wearable” to be integrated with Amazon’s voice assistant. By John Nassivera | Jun 03, 2016 10:09 AM EDT Pebble announced Thursday that it will ship its Core clip-on with Amazon’s Alexa technology …
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Amazon’s Echo speaker, and its descendents, Dot and Tap, are growing in popularity as consumers’ preferred “smart” speakers and the voice computing platform for the home. But they’re also encouraging a wave of developer interest, in the form of add-ons dubbed “skills” which allow you to teach Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa new tricks, like calling …
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CNET Smart Home Guide From connected light bulbs, to plant sensors, to smart locks, and beyond, smart home tech is growing and evolving rapidly. Here you’ll find the latest product reviews, news, and how-tos to help you connect your surroundings to the internet in the smartest way possible. Amazon said its Alexa artificial intelligence assistant …