Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Voice Assistants

Here we cover everything about Artifical Intelligence (AI) and Voice Assistants from 4 major companies: Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. What smart devices are compatible, how to setup or how to use. If you are interested in smart devices and home automation, you are at the right place.

Roku and Amazon have different ideas about over-the-air DVR

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Antennas are making a big comeback as more people cut cable TV, but that doesn’t mean over-the-air DVR is going mainstream along with them.Last...

Lenovo doubles down on its Google Assistant-powered Smart Display line with a new 7-inch...

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Looks like Lenovo knows a good thing when it sees one. Its 8- and 10-inch Smart Displays, both powered by Google Assistant, won plenty...

Sonos Unveils Its First Portable Bluetooth Speaker, Supports AirPlay 2

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Sonos today introduced its first portable Bluetooth speaker, the Sonos Move. The battery-powered Sonos Move features both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for listening at home or...

Ears-on with the Sonos Move Bluetooth speaker: Portable Sonos sound with Alexa and Google...

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It sure took long enough, but the audio gurus at Sonos have finally jumped into the portable Bluetooth speaker arena, and from what we’ve...

We’re still not getting voice assistants right

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Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The BBC is launching its own voice assistant, appropriately called ‘Beeb’ (though the efficacy of that...

Google Labor Day sale starts at $29, plus deals on smart home gear, more...

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The Google smart devices Labor Day sale starts at $29, and Home Depot discounts a number of accessories for today only. There’s also a...

Apple Apologizes Over Siri Privacy Concerns, Will Resume Grading Program in Fall With Several...

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Apple today announced that it will resume its Siri quality evaluation process in the fall with several privacy-focused changes. Going forward, Apple will only gather...

Google Assistant rolling out ‘Face Match’ for some ahead of Nest Hub Max debut

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Google’s Nest Hub Max is expected to arrive in the next few weeks and along with it, Google Assistant will support facial recognition with...

Google Assistant can now support and control robot mops

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Almost all the home appliances you buy today are “smart” and integrate with Assistant for voice commands on Android and Smart Displays. Google today...

This camera app uses AI to erase people from your photographs

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Bye Bye Camera is an iOS app built for the “post-human world,” says Damjanski, a mononymous artist based in New York City...

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IoT news of the week for March 27, 2020

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Building a digital watermark to track industrial IoT hacks: Researchers have come up with code that helps companies create a digital watermark for sensitive data...

The Wild West era of the smart home is at an end

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The Stringify app lets you combine services and gadgets to create flows. The buyers of smart home gear woke up on Monday to some pretty...

Google Maps is borrowing another of Waze’s best features with traffic slowdown reporting

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Being able to report incidents on the road, like traffic jams and accidents, has been a staple of Google-owned Waze for years,...