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Amazon launches DIY icon design tool for Alexa skill developers
Developers aren’t always blessed with the best design skills, which is why they often work in tandem with graphic designers.…
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Amazon Alexa voice control is coming to Sony soundbars and headphones
Sony is bringing Amazon Alexa support to its soundbars and wireless headphones, enabling users to request music or ask questions…
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Alexa can now play your favorite song when you walk into a room
Amazon today announced a new API that gives Alexa the ability to communicate with sensors that detect motion and sensors…
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Amazon opens its second cashierless store in Seattle; Chicago and San Francisco are next
Amazon’s expansion into brick-and-mortar shows no sign of slowing down. The retailer today opened the doors at its second Amazon Go…
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Google releases open source reinforcement learning framework for training AI models
Reinforcement learning — an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that uses rewards (or punishments) to drive agents in the direction of specific goals —…
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Amazon researchers share how AI helps Alexa answer follow-up questions
Humans have an easy time with context carryover — the ability to track references through rounds of conversation (like inferring…
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Paymentwall spins out Terminal3 as payment platform for games
Paymentwall, a global payments platform, has spun out Terminal3, a newly established video games monetization and distribution platform that will…
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Hype kills value, and other hard lessons from veteran voice app developers
At the AI-focused Transform event held by VentureBeat in Mill Valley, California, Google VP Scott Huffman, who is in charge of engineering…
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