Say goodbye to cafeteria burgers forever. Hungry? Amazon is now testing a food delivery service for workplaces, dubbed “Daily Dish,” eliminating the need for participating employees to hop in their cars and drive out for some grub every day. According to Geekwire, there are a few companies involved in the initial test, all of which …
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Patrón Spirits is celebrating International Tequila Day on Sunday, July 24 by launching the interactive “Patrón Cocktail Lab” that leverages cutting-edge technology to promote the spirits brand. Developed with Razorfish and Amazon, the Cocktail Lab is a personalized, recommendation engine accessible at PatronTequila.com that is designed to suggest Patrón cocktails based on mood, occasion and flavor. Working with Amazon, Patrón …
At first glance, it’s not a terrible decision to style your new eCommerce venture as the first true “Amazon killer.” At the very least, the epithet gave Jet.com a few weeks’ worth of positive coverage when it launched back in July 2015 with plenty of fanfare (and a hastily dropped annual membership fee, too). It’s been …
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Amazon is always adding new features to its Echo devices. With so many voice commands that work with Alexa, it’s easy to overlook some of the more helpful ones. You might’ve also missed some of the features added since you first unboxed Echo. If you want to get the most out of Alexa, here is …
Craving a frozen margarita? Just turn on your Amazon Echo and ask Alexa for the recipe. Tequila brand Patrón is launching on Amazon’s smart speaker Echo. Users can ask Echo’s Alexa Voice Service for anything from trending cocktails to facts about tequila. The launch coincides with “National Tequila Day” this Sunday. “Patrón has tremendous brand equity, …
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I’m writing this while watching the Republicans gather for their quadrennial excuse to wear cheese hats and paper mache giant Ronald Reagan heads. Okay, I’ll admit it. I get a twisted sort of morbid glee when politics goes very, very wrong. That’s why I had such high hopes for this week. See also: A dozen …
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Image: CNET/CBS Interactive We may never know if the feds have hijacked Amazon Echo. Amazon has so far issued two transparency reports since it began declaring how many government data demands and wiretap orders it receives. Both reports outlined how many subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders the company received to cloud service Amazon Web …
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Cisco previews Monica, its team-oriented, collaboration-focused twist on virtual assistants. Included in the “Collaboration Reimagined” keynote at Cisco Live last week were two previews of what’s in Cisco’s innovation labs. The first one was a one-touch join button for audio conferences, both in apps and on the phones themselves. It looks to be nicely implemented, …
Assistants are all the rage right now. Everyone seems to be working on one. People imagine them becoming the new interface to computers — why bother with apps and searching the web when you can just ask your assistant to do it for you? Yet, a major challenge stands between the dream assistant and the current …
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Even billionaires still got dreams, and Star Trek has granted Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos’ dream to star in Star Trek. We all have that one (or more) franchise that we would love to get casted in, even just for the most minor role in its canon. It seems these kinds of dream are not only …
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