Amazon’s entry-level Kindle gets a light and a higher price tag
Amazon is announcing an update to its entry-level Kindle (you know, the one that’s just called “Kindle” without any cool subtitles), adding...
Best Google Home add-ons and accessories
Welcome to the Google Home shadow market, a symbiotic ecosystem of third-party products that add a bit more versatility to the Google Home Mini...
AirKast and Cortana: Streaming quality radio content using the Cortana Skills Kit
With the launch of the new Harman Kardon Invoke speaker, consumers now have access to a home speaker that combines premium Harman Kardon audio...
Apple Ends Support for Funding Person-to-Person Payments With Credit Cards, Renames Apple Pay Cash...
Apple yesterday began sending emails to Apple Pay customers, warning them about new changes to the service that are taking effect immediately with iOS...
Machine-Labeled Data + Artificial Noise = Better Speech Recognition
Although deep neural networks have enabled accurate large-vocabulary speech recognition, training them requires thousands of hours of transcribed data, which is time-consuming and expensive...
[Update: Live on Android, web] Google Voice adds ‘Anonymous Caller ID’ option
Google Voice last month began rolling out the Google Material Theme redesign to Android, and expanded VoIP availability. The latest feature for Google’s telephony...
Cortana Skills now support Adaptive Cards
We are super excited to announce that Cortana Skills Kit now supports Adaptive Cards. Cortana beautifully renders these cards with her own styling (quite...
How to Disable Siri Suggestions on Your iPhone’s Lock Screen
With iOS 12, Siri began offering suggestions for Shortcuts and more via the lock screen. You can disable these suggestions for individual apps or...
Top 50 Home Automation Terms and What They Mean
Home automation is a beautiful industry that can turn your home in the ultimate paradise. However, if you are not familiar with the specific...
Adversarial Training Produces Synthetic Data for Machine Learning
Sentiment analysis is the attempt, computationally, to determine from someone’s words how he or she feels about something. It has a host of applications,...
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Source: Google Home Hub will be rebranded as Google Nest Hub
Several days ago, Google itself accidentally leaked the names of both the Pixel 3a and the forthcoming Nest Hub Max. At the same time,...
Podcast: How secure is your favorite smart home device?
Yale introduced new locks for the European market at IFA with August software inside.
This week’s show has good news for smart device buyers concerned...
Walmart adds Google Assistant voice shopping to take on Amazon and Alexa
Walmart’s ongoing war of attrition with Amazon is continuing. The retail store is adding voice-controlled shopping to Google Assistant as part of...
