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Volvos Will Soon Come With Google Assistant
Google // May 08, 2018

Volvo Cars has announced it will embed Google Assistant, Google Play Store, Google Maps and other Google services into its next-generation Sensus infotainment system. The next generation of Sensus will run on Android, so new apps and software updates will be available in real time...

Alexa And Apple CarPlay To Ride The 2019 Toyota Corolla
Merchant Innovation // March 27, 2018

The 2019 Toyota Corolla will include some cool new features, including Apple’s CarPlay and Amazon’s Alexa. According to The Verge, the car will make its debut at the New York International Auto Show this week. When CarPlay was added earlier this year in the 2019...

IBM Gives Alexa Another Rival With Watson Assistant
Artificial Intelligence // March 21, 2018

IBM has launched Watson Assistant, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for companies looking to build their own voice-activated virtual assistants. According to Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D. – general manager, Watson IoT, IBM – Watson Assistant combines AI, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) to help...

Snips Debuts Voice-Activated In-Vehicle SDK
Intelligence of Things // February 23, 2018

Snips, the French startup with a voice assistant software developer kit (SDK), is showing off its technology through a voice-activated assistant embedded in a vehicle. According to news from TechCrunch, Snips’ SDK is different from Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant because the system’s developers built with Snips...

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Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem

January 08, 2020
When Alexa was first introduced in November 2014, it didn’t look much like the next big thing in user interfaces. There wasn’t very much like it in the market at the time — both in terms of design and function — and there was little in the way of guarantees that the product would mature […]

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Volvos Will Soon Come With Google Assistant

May 08, 2018
Volvo Cars has announced it will embed Google Assistant, Google Play Store, Google Maps and other Google services into its next-generation Sensus infotainment system. The next generation of Sensus will run on Android, so new apps and software updates will be available in real time and can be automatically applied. Drivers will have access to […]

Alexa And Apple CarPlay To Ride The 2019 Toyota Corolla

March 27, 2018
The 2019 Toyota Corolla will include some cool new features, including Apple’s CarPlay and Amazon’s Alexa. According to The Verge, the car will make its debut at the New York...

IBM Gives Alexa Another Rival With Watson Assistant

March 21, 2018
IBM has launched Watson Assistant, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for companies looking to build their own voice-activated virtual assistants. According to Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D. – general manager, Watson IoT,...

Snips Debuts Voice-Activated In-Vehicle SDK

February 23, 2018
Snips, the French startup with a voice assistant software developer kit (SDK), is showing off its technology through a voice-activated assistant embedded in a vehicle. According to news from TechCrunch, Snips’...