Consumer & Gadgets
Adding random, short expressions of understanding in a conversation may turn smart speakers, such as Alexa and Siri, into robot therapists that allow people to open up more without violating their privacy, according to a ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Less than two weeks after the announcement of its acquisition of U.S. health care company One Medical, Amazon is continuing its expansion with a US$1.7 billion offer for iRobot, the manufacturer of Roomba automated vacuum ...
Aug 9, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Natural language processing, an area of artificial intelligence, involves teaching human language to computers. It has evolved from an intelligence-gathering technology to one that affects our everyday lives: giving voice ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers from Bentley University, in partnership with Waltham Council on Aging in Massachusetts, and as part of a study funded by the National Science Foundation, have been exploring how the elderly use smart speakers ...
Jun 17, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple will discontinue its original HomePod four years after first releasing the smart speaker.
Mar 15, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
While a certain level of trust is needed for autonomous cars and smart technologies to reach their full potential, these technologies are not infallible—hence why we're supposed to keep our hands on the wheel of self-driving ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Security
,The innocuous microwave on a shelf in a laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., is anything but ordinary.
Oct 27, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
The old Google Home that looked like an air freshener has been reinvented, renamed and redesigned to rock out.
Oct 5, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Following recent product reveals from Roku, Amazon, Samsung and Apple, it's Google's turn on Wednesday, beginning at 2 p.m. ET.
Sep 30, 2020
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Security
With everyone spending so much time at home during the pandemic, smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Nest ranges have had a golden opportunity. In their latest attempt to make the devices as relevant as possible ...
Sep 9, 2020
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