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Most people this week had their eyes focused on the availability of Apple’s iPhone 7 and the rollout of iOS 10. But while people focused on Apple and exploding smartphones this week, Amazon quietly continued to set the stage for Alexa’s ascent to global domination. On September 13, Amazon revealed the number of voice-activated skills …

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Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices as the main way consumers access hotel, flights, destination, and activities information. Type “I want to stay close to the Tokyo Tower” or “Hotel with a hot spring near Izu”, and the site will try to fetch relevant trip-planning information. Founded …

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Apple’s virtual assistant Siri is about to be the most well-fed data science algorithm on the planet. Over the past year, Siri hasn’t looked good compared to her peers in the bot world — Facebook and Amazon have opened up their bot platforms to developers, while Siri has continued to be handcuffed to a handful of …

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Amazon’s voice platform, Alexa, is no one-trick pony. In fact, she just added new skills to her repertoire: She can now order you food or an Uber, and she can even find your lost phone. She can help you pay your mortgage on time, too, and offer special deals that only she has access to. Plus, soon, she’ll …

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