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Tag: Amazon Alexa

Apple is the top buyer of artificial intelligence companies with 25 acquisitions over the past five years

Friday, March 26, 2021 5:25 pmFriday, March 26, 20213 Comments

The M&A deal-making landscape of the 2016-2020 artificial intelligence (AI) tech space was dominated by US tech giants, with Apple leading…

63% of people find smart home devices ‘creepy’

Thursday, May 2, 2019 4:30 pm6 Comments

Smart home devices are ‘creepy’ according to the majority of people who own them…

Amazon confirms it is listening to Alexa recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices

Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:11 am17 Comments

Some people are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening…

St. Louis University installing Amazon Alexa campus-wide

Thursday, August 16, 2018 1:07 pm15 Comments

The first college or university in the nation is installing Alexa-enabled Amazon Echo Dots in every single dorm room…

More than 1 in 10 consumers want voice commands for their toilet

Thursday, July 5, 2018 2:02 pmThursday, July 5, 201812 Comments

Amazon’s recent launch of Echo Show and Fire TV Cube, is in clear response…

Google overtakes Amazon to lead in smart speaker market unit sales

Thursday, May 24, 2018 4:45 pmThursday, May 24, 20185 Comments

Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment…

Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, and Apple’s Siri can hear this hidden command, but you can’t

Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:01 pmThursday, May 10, 20184 Comments

Over the past two years, researchers have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant…

Amazon Alexa to ‘completely control’ homes

Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:55 amThursday, May 10, 201813 Comments

Amazon wants to show you how much you can rely on its Alexa voice assistant to control everything in your home…

Apple loses ground to Amazon in smart home deals with homebuilders

Monday, April 16, 2018 4:00 pmMonday, April 16, 201818 Comments

As Amazon and Apple race to get consumers to buy smart devices…

Apple’s HomePod vs. Sonos One with Alexa

Thursday, March 1, 2018 1:01 pmThursday, March 1, 20182 Comments

Apple’s entrance into the ‘smart’ speaker market earlier this month was remarkable…

Amazon follows Apple by designing custom AI chips for Alexa

Monday, February 12, 2018 4:02 pmMonday, February 12, 201814 Comments

Amazon has started designing a custom artificial intelligence chip that would power future Echo devices…

Amazon sells tens of millions of Alexa devices worldwide in record holiday season

Tuesday, December 26, 2017 4:45 pmTuesday, December 26, 201744 Comments

mazon celebrated its biggest holiday season with customers all around the world…

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