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Greet your guests with Alexa now!
Washington: The American multinational technology company Amazon announced that it is adding Alexa to its Ring Video Doorbells Pro, giving it the ability to interact with people when they visit…
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Alexa can now act on hunches to turn off lights, more
San Francisco: Amazon has rolled out a new feature called “hunches” that allows Alexa to proactively complete tasks around the house, such as turning off lights, based on your habits…
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Amazon makes Alexa Custom Assistant available in India
New Delhi: Amazon on Thursday announced Alexa Custom Assistant, a new solution that lets device makers and service providers create intelligent assistants tailored to their brand personality and customer needs. With…
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Amazon plans Alexa device that monitors sleep disorder: Report
New Delhi: Amazon is working on a new Alexa-driven device that can monitor sleep apnea, a disorder where breathing repeatedly stops and starts, Business Insider reported. According to the report, the…
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Alexa in Hindi turns 1, now available on smartphones in India
Bengaluru: Amazon India on Friday announced that its smart assistant Alexa that completed one year of its existence is now available on both Android and iOS smartphones in the country. The…
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Big B 1st celebrity voice on Amazon Alexa in India
New Delhi: Amazon Alexa on Monday announced a partnership with Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to create a unique voice experience for its Indian fans. The Amazon Alexa team will work closely…
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Entertainment
Diljit Dosanjh’s clash with Alexa goes viral
Mumbai: Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh has posted a hilarious new video that captures his struggle with Alexa. In the video, he requests the virtual assistant to play one of his…
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Now tell Google Assistant, Siri to open Alexa app on a smartphone
New Delhi: You can access Amazon Echo smart speakers with voice command at home. Now tell Google Assistant or Siri on your phone to open the Alexa app for you on…
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Bots are more successful if they impersonate humans
BERLIN: As we embrace Alexa or Siri in our lives, researchers report that chatbots are more successful than humans in certain human-machine interactions — but only if they are allowed…
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Chat with Amazon Alexa in Hindi or Hinglish in India
NEW DELHI: In a bid to make deeper inroads in the Hindi-speaking population in India, Amazon on Wednesday brought Hindi and Hinglish capabilities to its voice assistant Alexa on the…
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Amazon now lets you opt-out of human review of Alexa recordings
California: After Apple, Amazon has reportedly added the option for users to choose if they want their conversations with Alexa to be reviewed by humans for quality control. According to…
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Amazon’s Alexa will soon take commands in Hindi
Mumbai: You may soon be able to instruct Amazon’s voice-based virtual assistant Alexa using Hindi commands as the e-commerce giant is expanding the skills kit to include the language. Developers…
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‘Alexa, my head hurts’: UK health service signs up Amazon
LONDON: “Alexa, what are the symptoms of flu?” The UK government said Wednesday that Britons will be able to get an answer to this and other simple medical queries from…
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Business
Amazon admits it keeps Alexa data forever: Report
San Francisco: Retail giant Amazon has reportedly admitted it does not always delete the stored data that it obtains through voice interactions through its voice assistant Alexa and Echo line-up…
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Amazon’s Alexa invites lawsuit over recording children’s voices via Echo Dot
Washington: Just a day after releasing a kid-appropriate Echo Dot, Amazon has been reportedly slapped with a pair of class-action lawsuits for Alexa, its voice-enabled assistant, which is accused of…
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Amazon introduces kid-appropriate Echo Dot
Washington: Kids are curious and ask innumerable questions which may or may not be answerable by the adults. To keep the young ones busy asking questions, Amazon has introduced a…
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Facebook to launch updated ‘Portal’ devices in 2019
San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook is set to launch updated version of its video chat device ‘Portal’ later in 2019. Andrew Bosworth, Vice President of Facebook’s Augmented Reality (AR)…
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Business
Amazon launches Echo Show 5 device at Rs 8,999
Bengaluru: Amazon on Wednesday announced the latest addition to its Echo Show family, the Echo Show 5 with 5.5-inch display at Rs 8,999. It comes with new features, including how-to…
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LG adds Alexa to 2019 ThinQ AI TVs
SEOUL: LG announced that it will start rolling out Amazon’s voice-based digital assistant Alexa to its 2019 TV models with ThinQ AI technology. The update will be implemented through the…
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Amazon plans to let devices record before wake word
San Francisco: A newly-revealed patent application from Amazon shows that the e-commerce giant is planning to let Echo and other Alexa-enabled devices to record what is said even before a…
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Amazon Alexa suffered outage in US
San Francisco: Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa suffered almost an hour-long outage in the US for reasons that remain undisclosed. Instead of serving up the usual music, news or weather information…
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Amazon accused of violating kids’ privacy with Alexa
NEW YORK: US Senators and a group of 19 consumer and public health advocates have accused Amazon for recording and saving conversations that take place around its smart speakers, urging…
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Giving human touch to Alexa or Siri can backfire
New York: An Indian American researcher-led team has found that giving human touch to chat bots like Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa may actually disappoint users. Just giving a chat…
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Amazon to launch video news app for Fire TV devices: Report
Washington: Amazon is reportedly looking at launching an ad-supported video news app for its Fire TV streaming devices. According to a report on The Information, the e-commerce giant is planning…
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This LA hospital pilots Alexa-enabled smart patient rooms
Los Angeles: Hospitals are perhaps the best places for the use of smart speakers. Cedars-Sinai, a non-profit hospital in Los Angeles, is looking at adding a touch of smart to…
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Apple acquires AI startup behind Alexa, Google Assistant-based apps
California: Apple is pulling up its socks in the AI race and as part of its latest efforts, the iPhone maker has acquired a San Francisco-based AI startup called Pullstring.…
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Indian consumers say big hello to voice-based devices
NEW DELHI: Hey Alexa! Please play “Bhaja Govindam” by M.S. Subbulakshmi, goes the command every morning at my home and Alexa takes no time in obliging, playing the song by…
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