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Review: 18 Alexa skills for productivity, collaboration and more
You can use Amazon’s voice-activated Alexa assistant to send Slack messages, texts, and emails; add items to to-do lists; and more. But do Alexa skills for business users really save you time and effort?
Google’s Hangouts Chat gets chatbot boost with Dialogflow
Dialogflow should make it easier for developers to create natural language bots for Google’s team collaboration platform.
The downfall of the virtual assistant (so far)
Services like Google Assistant and Alexa are growing more capable by the minute — but there's one big, fat lingering problem.
JLL creates ‘smart office’ AI voice assistant
The real estate firm partnered with Google to compete with a range of conversational AI assistants entering the workplace, from Alexa to Cortana.
UCSF and Nvidia may have just saved us from our noisy future
A breakthrough by the University of California San Francisco using Nvidia’s AI architecture to create an electrocardiographic link to your brain has resulted in voice-free vocal communication. This could enable the future of...
New Cortana and Google Assistant updates highlight workplace potential
Microsoft and Google this week both showcased changes to their digital voice assistants designed to make them more useful in the office.
Hey, Siri, what’s the future of enterprise voice services?
The future of enterprise voice services involves much more than asking Apple Watch to turn off your lights.
How to use 'Hey, Siri' to control Google Assistant on iPhone
The iOS version of Google Assistant was updated to support Siri Shortcuts, which means you can now create a Siri Shortcut that lets you get help from the Assistant using Siri.
How AI is helping the help desk
Service desk chatbots and automated request routing are just the beginning. AI- and ML-driven tools will soon tap predictive analytics for better decision making in incident management, demand planning and more.
The smart speaker finally gets its killer app for business
It turns out that the most important app for a virtual assistant appliance might be the one you create yourself.
IBM and the future of digital assistants: Building superhumans
The IBM Think Conference showcases some fascinating human enhancements that will shortly begin our evolution from human to hybrid-human to and beyond. It’s a fast-approaching future where we are individually more capable, and far less...
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Tech luminaries we lost in 2018
Hailing from five different nations, the 13 remarkable women and men memorialized here had a lasting influence on technology and the world.
WeWork halts rollout of Alexa for Business
The company was showcased as an early adopter of the virtual assistant technology when Alexa for Business launched in 2017. CNBC says the WeWork trial was halted after two months.
Will Cortana go the way of Windows Phone?
The signs all suggest that Microsoft is going to cut its losses in the digital assistant market. Smart move.
Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant now available on Windows 10 PCs as a standalone app
Alexa, which debuted on select Windows 10 laptops earlier this year is now available for download on all compatible devices, building Amazon's push into the enterprise.
Why Apple’s Siri is already an enterprise product
The usual suspects love to spend time claiming Siri lags other voice assistants; they don’t seem to understand that Apple’s voice assistant is an enterprise product. It's all about the data – and privacy.
Amazon opens up Alexa for Business to third-party devices
The move allows the the voice-activated digital assistant to push further into the enterprise by expanding the variety of devices in which it's embedded.
12 Siri Shortcuts to make you more productive
Thses Siri Shortcuts for iOS 12, iPhone, and iPad can make you more productive.
University-customized Alexa devices will answer students’ questions
Saint Louis University CIO says that Alexa could be used to boost faculty productivity too.
