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Alexa, start barking: Smart 13-year-old girl saves herself and her sister from monkey attack in UP
6Apr By adminNo Comments
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Alexa, start barking: Smart 13-year-old girl saves herself and her sister from monkey attack in UP

[ad_1] In a remarkable display of presence of mind, a 13-year-old girl from Basti, Uttar Pradesh, managed to fend off a potentially dangerous monkey attack using a rather unconventional method – Amazon's virtual voice assistant, Alexa. The incident took place earlier in the day at Awas Vikas Colony in Basti, when young Nikita found herself confronted with a monkey intruder while playing with her 15-month-old niece on the sofa. With other family members in different rooms of the house, Nikita sprang into action when the monkey began rummaging through the kitchen, causing chaos. Also read: Google to introduce new tool to identify unknown callers directly through the Pixel phone app Despite feeling scared, Nikita spotted the Alexa device placed on the fridge. In a split-second decision, ...
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Amazon to supercharge Alexa AI, make you pay; know all about the rumoured ‘Alexa Plus’
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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Amazon to supercharge Alexa AI, make you pay; know all about the rumoured ‘Alexa Plus’

[ad_1] Amazon Alexa has become one of the biggest names in recent years in the world of AI-powered voice assistants. It is quite useful when it comes to tasks such as playing music, solving queries and even entertaining kids. It can even control smart home devices such as your TV, lights, AC, washing machine, and more. However, it seems like Amazon is set to enhance its capabilities by supercharging it with personalized artificial intelligence (AI) technology. But there is a catch. To use this new Alexa AI tool - aka Alexa Plus - you will have to pay for it. And what is more, it may not even be too accurate in its answers and that is a sticking point that has been highlighted internally. Alexa AI paid subscriptionAccording to a Business Insider report, Amazon Alexa AI voice assistant wi...
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CES 2024: BMW to Ecovacs, here are the ‘Worst in Show’ products, consumer advocates say
12Jan By adminNo Comments
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CES 2024: BMW to Ecovacs, here are the ‘Worst in Show’ products, consumer advocates say

[ad_1] The best CES 2024 products pierce through the haze of marketing hype at the Las Vegas gadget show to reveal innovations that could improve lives. The worst could harm us or our society and planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged them “Worst in Show.” The third annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday.AND THE AWARD GOES TO“From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations,” says the group of consumer and privacy advocates judging the awards. The contest has no affiliation with CES or the trade group that runs the expo. We are now on WhatsApp....
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CES 2024 day 3: Check top 10 product announcements; From smart rings to headsets
11Jan By adminNo Comments
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CES 2024 day 3: Check top 10 product announcements; From smart rings to headsets

[ad_1] CES 2024: Day 3 of the event saw various innovations in the tech industry from top brands and new startups being rolled out. Yes, CES 2024 day 3 has commenced and there are still two more days left to see what companies are planning to launch in the coming months. The year has kickstarted with the introduction of top-notch innovations, and it's astonishing to see what 2024 holds in terms of bringing new tech products and leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence.Top 10 CES 2024 day 3 announcementsAmazfit Helio Smart Ring: Amazfit launched its new smart ring which has the capabilities of giving serious competition to the Oura ring. The ring has a titanium alloy build and weighs only 4 grams. It is 2.6mm thick and offers 10ATM of water resistance.2. Rabbit R1: It is an...
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CES 2024: Amazon partners with BMW to bring Alexa voice assistant to cars; Know all about it
10Jan By adminNo Comments
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CES 2024: Amazon partners with BMW to bring Alexa voice assistant to cars; Know all about it

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) was the buzzword of 2023, with the world's largest tech companies incorporating this technology into their suite of products. Consequently, we've not only seen the emergence of new AI tools such as AI chatbots, but also its embrace by legacy organizations such as Adobe, and Microsoft. Not just in tech, but AI is making waves in the automotive world as well. At the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon and BMW have announced a partnership that will see AI come into the fold. Know all about it.Amazon-BMW partnershipAs part of the partnership, a Large Language Model (LLM) with Amazon Alexa will be merged with the vehicle's user manual. This move would allow users to ask anything they wish to know about their vehicle, and Alexa...
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Amazon Must Promise to Rank iRobot Rivals Fairly, EU Watchdog Warns
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Amazon Must Promise to Rank iRobot Rivals Fairly, EU Watchdog Warns

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. must pledge to fairly rank rival robot vacuum cleaners sold on its online marketplace if it is to secure European Union approval for its $1.4 billion buyout of Roomba maker iRobot Corp., the bloc's interim competition chief Didier Reynders warned. His comments follow last week's move by the European Commission to issue a formal statement of objections cataloging potential reasons to block the deal unless Amazon comes up with an offer to fix them.  “The main issue is to be sure to have a fair treatment of all the different actors,” Didier Reynders, the EU's acting commissioner for competition, told reporters after an event in Brussels.  Reynders, who's standing in for competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager while she runs for the top job at the European Investm...
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Amazon voice assistant gets gen AI boost with Explore with Alexa for kids
26Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amazon voice assistant gets gen AI boost with Explore with Alexa for kids

[ad_1] Voice assistants have become extremely popular in recent years. No more is there a need to get up, turn your music system on, browse a song on your phone and play it. Instead, just ask Alexa to do it. Amazon's voice assistant is quite useful when it comes to tasks such as playing music, solving queries and even entertaining kids. It can even control smart home devices such as your TV, lights, AC, washing machine, and more. If your kid has become restless, simply ask Alexa to play a rhyme to tell a story, and it'll keep them engaged for long periods while you get your work done.Now, Alexa is getting the generative artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade, Amazon has announced. Know all about it. Explore with AlexaAccording to Amazon, the new generative AI experience, called Explore wi...
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI peddling false medical claims, Amazon’s AI companion, and more
8Oct By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI peddling false medical claims, Amazon’s AI companion, and more

[ad_1] AI app offers Taylor Swift $2 million to become virtual girlfriend; Authors outraged as AI trains on their books without consent; AI-generated 'Doctors' on social media peddling false medical claims; Uttar Pradesh govt approves 100+ AI and blockchain research studies- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. AI app offers Taylor Swift $2 million to become virtual girlfriendAI app DreamGF.ai has offered Taylor Swift $2 million to use her likeness on its platform. The app enables users to interact with AI-generated chatbot-style girlfriends and create content with their likenesses. DreamGF.ai emphasises responsible AI integration in entertainment. The offer is specifically for using Swift's image in a dignified and reverent manner within the chatbot program, accord...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT will ‘see, hear and speak’ in major update
26Sep By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT will ‘see, hear and speak’ in major update

[ad_1] OpenAI's ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple's Siri.The voice feature "opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications", OpenAI said in a blog post on Monday. Similar AI services like Siri, Google voice assistant and Amazon.com's Alexa are integrated with the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders, and deliver information off the internet. Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for a wide range of tasks from summarizing documents to writing computer code, setting off a race amongst Big Tech companies to launch their own offerings ba...
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OpenAI Gives ChatGPT the Ability to Speak in Five Different Voices
25Sep By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI Gives ChatGPT the Ability to Speak in Five Different Voices

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is rolling out a feature for its ChatGPT app that lets the chatbot respond to spoken questions and commands with speech of its own. Starting over the next two weeks, users will be able to choose a voice in the chatbot app, picking from five personas with names like “Juniper,” “Breeze” and “Ember.” ChatGPT will then produce audio of the text it generates in that voice — for example, reading an AI-generated bedtime story out loud. The feature will be available to people who subscribe to OpenAI's $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus service and enterprise users.OpenAI released its ChatGPT app in May, and already offers a voice-to-text capability that lets users talk to the bot. Adding an audio response feature could create a sense that people are having ...
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