Alexa

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference starts next Monday and is most likely to take on headlines for its new features related to Siri, watchOS, and tvOS. Security improvements on Apple devices are also expected, as the company insists on protecting users’ personal information regardless of government’s pressures. The Cupertino-based firm might have plans to increase the …

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The iPhone 4S was the first iPhone with Siri built-in. Image: Oli Scarff/Getty Images By Lance Ulanoff2016-06-10 15:51:37 UTC In the race to build the ultimate personal voice assistant, Apple had a running start. But instead of running hard for the past five years, Apple slowed into a steady trot, seemingly unconcerned about the competitors …

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The first week of June began with probably the biggest sizzle-y story of all: the unveiling of the 12 new skills that 14 companies across payments taught Alexa. Companies as large as Visa, Discover, FIS, Fiserv, Vantiv and Western Union, and diverse and scrappy as DaVincian Healthcare, EXA, OnVocal/People Power, BIG, and Zipscene/Feasty got their …

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A mother from Australia thanked Apple’s Siri on her iPhone for saving her baby’s life. Using the voice activation services, she managed to reach the emergency services while focused on reviving her baby. An Australian mother of a one-year-old baby girl personal thanked Cupertino-based tech giant Apple in a letter after iPhone’s voice-activated assistant app …

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The Apple logo can be seen on the Moscone Center West conference center in San Francisco, USA, 07 June 2015. Image: Christoph Dernbach/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Christina Warren2016-06-09 14:30:38 UTC We’re just a few days away from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, better known as WWDC. Each year, Apple packs developers (and the press) into a crowded …

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With Amazon Alexa now on board, Pebble Core is not just any fitness tracker, but you can now do everything that the Amazon Echo can do.(Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images) The new Pebble Kickstarter is a little bit fitness focused. It has the Pebble 2, Pebble Time, and also the Pebble Core. The Pebble Core looks …

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(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Tweet Share Share on Facebook Tweet Share Pin Share WWDC is almost here — and this year, Apple has more to talk about than ever. That’s because WWDC is Apple’s software show, and Apple now has four distinct operating systems to discuss: iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS. As always, …

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Pebble Core is the world’s first 3G-enabled standalone ultraportable device powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice-driven technology. Churned out from a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the device will be offered early in 2017 with financial backers given the rare opportunity of using the device ahead of everyone. Pebble Technology has achieved huge technological leaps since its …

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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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