In a development that underscores cost cutting measures adopted by Amazon.com Inc, the e-commerce giant said it has shifted some computing power for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, away from chips supplied by Nvidia Corp. When consumers ask devices equipped with Alexa, including Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers, a question…
In an effort aimed at consolidating its position in the music streaming service, Amazon.com Inc stated it has introduced an ad-supported free version of its music streaming service called Amazon Music. Incidentally, Spotify Technology, Amazon Music’s rival, has nearly 140 million users for its free version. For its paid version, Amazon Music’s plans start at…
Fitbit’s latest feature packed Versa 2 beats the majority of its competitor on the battery life feature alone since it can last upto 5 days against Apple’s smartwatch 2 days. With Fitbit Inc launching the Versa 2, which features Amazon.com’s voice assistant Alexa, ability to make online payments and store music, its shares surged by…
Squarely aimed at Apple’s Airpod, GN’s wireless earbuds targets a bigger slice of the $9.6 billion wireless market from its current single digit marketshare. By introducing a new product line that poses a direct challenge to Apple’s Airpods, Denmark’s GN Store Nord appears to be targeting a bigger slice of the growing market for wireless…
In 2018, it will capitalize on this further by enabling voice Google powered shopping across its 4,700 brick and mortar stores. In a development that marks the opening of a second front on Wal-Mart Stores assault on Amazon.com Inc, the company is teaming up with Google to enter the nascent voice-shopping market that is at…
Featuring realtime acoustic modelling, the HomePod will ship this December. On Monday, with the launch of the HomePod, Apple has taken aim at Amazon.com’s Echo devices featuring Alexa. The development underscores Apple’s move to launch a device into a completely new market segment after a gap of more than two years. With this launch, the…
The difference in approach to Apple’s and Amazon’s personal assistant is telling. Following Amazon’s lead, Apple is expected to announce its plans this coming week for expanding Siri, its voice assistant, to a large variety of app, in efforts aimed at mirroring Amazon’s runaway success with Alexa. However, engineers and artificial intelligence insiders state, instead…
Google Home is fast catching up. As per research firm eMarketer, Amazon’s voice-controlled speakers are dominating the nascent market of voice-controlled speakers. As per the results of its study, Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices have grabbed 70.6% of the U.S. market in 2017. These speakers feature Amazon’s Alexa, its voice-controlled assistant which allows consumers…
This is welcome news for Britain: despite Brexit it is continuing to be the recipient of funds to create new technologies. Amazon plans on opening a new centre in Cambridge wherein it plans on deploying scientists and technicians to develop its future technologies, including ones for Alexa, its digital assistant that it currently uses in…
With this move, we will become even more dependent on Amazon’s web services and cloud based data security. With Amazon S3 facing a rough day, the company will have to do a lot more to convince businesses and consumers that its web services is robust, dependable and secure. When you are in need of tech…
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