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Airbnb And Priceline Group Fight To Be The First Stop In Travel Planning

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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10 Stats About Artificial Intelligence That Will Blow You Away

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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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Apple won the battle – will Android or Amazon win the war?

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Phones are becoming the hubs of our entire lives. / © Google A phone isn’t a phone, and that’s important Your phone isn’t a phone. It’s a computer with a phone app inside it – and for more and more of us, it’s become our primary computing device. Sure, you’ll do stuff on your PC, …

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Amazon Alexa Speaks To Logitech Harmony

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Despite some hopeful announcements, Apple HomeKit continues to limp along. And many have turned to Amazon as the voice-controlled switchboard of their smart homes. Indeed, after originally unloading two Echoes as a novelty, I’m back on board with one Echo and an Amazon Dot — happily barking commands at Alexa. Amazon’s platform is far more inclusive, interoperating with just about anything, sometimes …

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A new app and a more open approach to Siri could save Apple’s smart home

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We’ve long-lamented over the glacial pace of Apple’s HomeKit smart home platform when it comes to adopting new partners, but that might be changing soon. At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the tech giant finally committed to offering a direct portal to HomeKit via a dedicated app in iOS 10. It also announced …

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For Apple, Apps Are The New Platforms

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[embedded content] After last month’s Google’s I/O conference, I wrote about how its announcements followed a theme of lowering barriers, such as not requiring a separate device for Android Auto, or a PC for advanced virtual reality, or even installation to experience an app. While Apple also announced efforts to make app development child’s play …

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Alexa’s Kid Privacy Problem

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While most adult consumers have made peace with the fact that they will endure some amount of retailer tracking while they are online, those same adults get a lot less enthused when it is their kids being tracked instead. Which means there may just be a brewing privacy problem within the Internet of Things, and …

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No, Facebook doesn’t eavesdrop on your phone. But it does spy on you.

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(Karen Bleier/AFP) Kelli Burns may go down in history — or at least in Google search — as the professor who claimed, definitively, that Facebook “eavesdrops” on its mobile users. Her comments, reported in a Tampa TV news segment two weeks ago, have sparked a global panic about corporate surveillance and personal privacy. The claim …

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Why Google Home has a lot of catching up to do

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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 …

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Top Amazon Echo tips and tricks

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Optimize your Echo experience with our handy tips and fun tricks! The Amazon Echo, Amazon’s smart speaker, is taking the home automation game to another level, thanks to Alexa and the fact that “she’s” constantly learning to serve you better. If you have an Echo of your very own or are considering buying one (you …

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