Nike has unveiled a new pair of smart shoes that feature connectivity with the Apple Watch and Siri. The Adapt Huarache takes its namesake from the company’s popular 1991 Huarache line of shoes. Beyond sporting a contemporary, virtually branding-free design, the shoes also sport the Nike FitAdapt lacing system. Using a midfoot motor, this technology […]
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Apple has issued a formal apology for its privacy practices of secretly having human contractors listen to recordings of customers talking to its Siri digital assistant to improve the service. “We realize we haven’t been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize,” Apple’s statement reads. The company also announced several
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on July 11, 2019 at 10:52 am Consumers are increasing employing search through voice assistants and those queries extend to questions about brands. In the Voice Assistant SEO Report for Brands published this week by Voicebot in collaboration with Magic + Co., a key finding of note is the particular importance
Loup Ventures has published the results of its annual “smart speaker IQ” test. Google Home was the overall winner, but the surprise is that Apple’s HomePod and Siri bested Alexa and Cortana. 800 questions asked. The firm asked 800 questions to the virtual assistants and graded them on the basis of whether the question was
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I watch the many ways in which my 7-year-old grandson engages with Google Home when he drops by the house. Whenever a question of history or fact arises, I pull out my phone or walk to my open laptop, but he always beats me to the answer by simply speaking out: “Hey Google …” This is
Google has released an update to its Google Assistant app for iOS that brings Siri Shortcut support to the app. That means you can now trigger the Google Assistant by saying “Hey Siri, OK Google.” This will make it easier for iOS users to ask Google questions while being completely hands free. They no longer need
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The Co-Founder & former CEO of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, says that he “would have liked to see Siri evolve to doing more things, greater capabilities to become a bigger part of your life.” Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010. In 2012 Kittlaus co-founded another AI company, Viv, an artificial intelligence platform that enables developers
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Tinder Co-Founder Sean Rad, in an interview on stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, said that he thinks that as the technology of AI advances that Siri might become a matchmaker soon: I think the future looks nothing like what you see right now. A lot of people talk about AI and its ability
Globant released a recent report on the rise of voice-activated technology in 2018. In this post, Globant CTO Diego Tartara shares data from the report and insight into what businesses can do to adapt to voice technology. Voice-activated technology is here and more accessible than ever before. Thirty-nine million Americans already own smart speakers, and we’re
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