Tag: Smart Assistants

Amazon's ambitions in the delivery sector finally reveal what Jeff Bezos has been building in plain sight: a global hyper-company. No wonder Theresa May...

Google is to absorb smart devices vendor Nest into its internal hardware team, in a reversal of previous strategy. Google's head of hardware, Rick Osterloh,...

Facebook has closed down two bots as part of a project teaching AI negotiation skills. The chatbots developed a new shorthand and began to communicate...

Cleveland, Ohio-based Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) has invested in manufacturing analytics technology from Rockwell Automation to scale its production efforts. As data proliferates, seemingly...

Digital assistants will outnumber people within the next four years if the predictions in a new research report from Ovum come to pass. The...

Just one in three consumers feel comfortable using artificially intelligent chatbots, according to a survey from research company Ask Your Target Market. Chatbots are computer...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, has made Amazon Lex available to all customers. Amazon Lex is an artificial...

The connected home is still the realm of early adopters only, according to new research from industry analysts at Gartner. In a survey of 10,000 online...

American lock manufacturer Schlage has formed a partnership with Amazon in a bid to bring the capabilities of the Alexa smart assistant to its products. As...

AI assistant Alexa has broken free from its Amazon Echo speakers and will now be available via an Android app and third-party hardware. The online retailing...