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BBC Plans To Release Their Own Smart Home Assistant
The chances are these days that if you’re really into your technology, you probably have a smart home assistant. I personally have an Amazon Alexa and, although I mostly use it as a glorified egg-timer, it is rather useful for providing you with information and controlling various devices within your…
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TP-Link Smart Home Products Now All Compatible with Google Assistant
Digital assistants are the big thing at the moment as they allow you to control most of your home when coupled with other smart devices. TP-Link has now announced that its entire family of smart home products are compatible with the Google Assistant. With the integration of Google Assistant on Google…
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Robert Downey Jr. Offers His Voice to Mark Zuckerberg’s Jarvis AI
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest pet project is his AI assistant Jarvis, which could have the potential to rival the offerings from rivals, such as Google Now and Cortana. What we do know is that there’s still a lot of work to be done, and it’s not even known if this will…
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Microsoft Populates Skype With Helper-Bots
Your Skype chats could just get a little bit smarter thanks to Microsoft’s new array of assistive helper-bots. These bots were on show at Build 2016, where Microsoft demonstrated how Cortana, as well as a number of third-party ‘bots’ were able to inject information and optional actions into Skype messaging…
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CarVi to Bring Safety and Smart Features to Any Car
Car safety has come a very long way and modern cars provide all sorts of assistant features that help to keep us and everyone around us safe. As great as that is, older cars lack these features and getting a brand new car just isn’t an option for most people.…
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How Siri Can Help you Locate The Owner of a Lost Phone
These days, the three major mobile operating systems all ship with their own ‘personal assistants’. Windows Phone has Cortana, Android has ‘Ok Google’, and iOS of course has Siri. The artificial intelligence behind these systems is so complex, that many hidden features are regularly being found by users. Thanks to…
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Kingston Launch Web Assistant For Storage & Memory Upgrades
When it comes to working out the specification of your new gaming system or when you’re looking to boost the performance of your existing setup, memory and storage are two of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of getting the most out of what you’ve got. Since the launch of…
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Apple And Google To Battle Over Personal Assistants
Smartphone manufacturers have been battling over features, specs and design. But now it seems that the battleground is moving towards the personal assistant area, where Siri and Google Now comes into play. According to a report out of the U.K., both Apple and Google are hard at work improving their…
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Windows Phone 8.1 Rumored To Get A Notification Center
Rumors are that Microsoft is preparing to ship Windows Phone 8.1. The new OS, which will apparently be detailed at the company’s BUILD conference in April, will finally add a notification center as well as a Siri-like personal assistant. Tom Warren from The Verge state that the new notification center…
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