When you speak to your phone — whether it’s Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa or the next one in line — you want to be heard, right? Well, Microsoft says it’s next in line for proving that it has got voice recognition down pat, better than...
Did you know that nearly 54 million Americans are freelancers? That’s more than a third of the workforce. More and more ways to find those freelancers have popped up. And this new economy is growing. But while that freelance work and lifestyle may seem like...
Innovation drives progress. But what drives innovation? Technology, sometimes — and as Sage Director Joseph Smutz told Karen Webster, developers can rule the roost in business boosting.
No mere bots, these. Consider them fashion bots, or “fashbots” for short. As TechCrunch noted, fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has teamed up with Facebook’s Creative Shop and bot maker msg.ai to fashion (no pun intended) a chatbot that the site deemed “worthy to point to.”...
Tech giants Google and Apple both have outreach groups that seek and acquire “rocketship startups” from all over the world. Project Sand Hill is the name of Google’s operation. Startups get immediate access to Google’s renowned tech teams, and Google gets exclusive access and control...
The smart parking system market is slated to be as large as $369 million by the year 2024, according to Hexa. In a press release, the firm stated that there are number of tailwinds in place to help the market in which technology is used to...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting super-intelligent these days. While Amazon’s Alexa already doesn’t need your voice to function, Google now says its DeepMind unit has crafted a system for machine-generated speech that’s so smart it outperforms the existing technology by at least 50 percent. This...
If you’ve ever seen comic Sebastian Maniscalco’s standup about Chipotle’s burrito-building efficiency, you might wonder what he’d say about a new way of delivering those burritos: via drones sent by Google. That’s right, we said burritos. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has announced the first initiative...
In the battle of the smartwatches, is bigger always better? Samsung aims to find out by going big against Apple, Huawei and others. Mashable noted on Wednesday (Aug. 31) that Samsung is following up on what the site said was the tech giant’s “well-received” Gear S2 with...
