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 …
News Feed Item Internet of Things (IoT) WAN Market Analysis and Forecasts 2016 – 2021 By PR Newswire Article Rating: December 16, 2016 07:46 PM EST NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Overview:The 3GPP is standardizing three cellular communications approaches to Wide Area Network (WAN) communications for the Internet of Things (IoT). These …
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Image: Radomir Rezny, Getty Images, iStock In a first for the hotel industry, Wynn Las Vegas is taking a gamble with the Amazon Echo smart speaker and equipping 4,748 hotel rooms with the hands-free natural language processing device. Wynn began deploying the devices in suites this month, and it will be available in all guest …
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If you’ve been itching to talk to your Google Home about current events, travel, and pizza, you’re in luck. The voice-activated speaker just added nearly three dozen new services that will expand its knowledge of what happening in your house and the world. Earlier this week, Google Home gained the ability to play Netflix shows …
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In line with recent rumors that Microsoft is going to harness the ubiquity of Windows and the smarts of Cortana to compete with Google and Amazon in the smart home niche, the tech giant has now opened its AI assistant to third-party developers and device makers. This way Cortana can be integrated into a plethora …
I use my Amazon Echo a lot. Since importing one from the U.S. last year, I’ve started using web services that provide native integration with Alexa, the platform that powers Amazon’s speaker. Whenever I come across a new web service I could use, I check if they have an Alexa skill too. I like Amazon’s …
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — USC — Even as education technology floods into classrooms across the world, educators haven’t always been able to make sure it’s making a difference. A new center at the University of Southern California will attempt to make that technology more informative for personalized learning and instruction. CHARIOT leaders, pictured …
Silicon Valley-based tech-products store b8ta, which lets shoppers test products in-store and provides real-time data on sales to manufacturers, is opening a store in Seattle. The nearly 2,000-square-foot store, b8ta’s second, opens Thursday at University Village, toward the south end of the shopping center, near Chipotle Mexican Grill. San Francisco-based b8ta (pronounced “beta”) launched its …
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Have you ever woken up, walked into the kitchen and made the startling discovery all the coffee is gone? But imagine it’s all right, because a week ago, your coffee machine alerted Amazon, “Hey, this lady is almost out of coffee, so let’s get more ordered now before there’s a crisis over here.” Crisis avoided. …
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Under the leadership of various Communist Chinese agents within the United Nations, the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) met in Mexico last week and concluded with calls for greater international controls and more “global governance” of the World Wide Web. Another key item on the agenda was exploiting the Internet to promote the UN’s deeply …
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