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Inside the Voice Assistant ‘Revolution’

Photo by Thomas Kolnowski on Unsplash You can soon, if you insist, talk to your microwave — and it will listen. Amazon recently announced...
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5 Technologies Bringing Healthcare Systems into the Future

If you think you’ve got a bad case of the travel bug, get this: Dr. John Halamkatravels 400,000 miles a year. That’s equivalent to fully circling...
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China Created What it Claims is the First AI News Anchor

Photo: Xinhua’s English-language artificial-intelligence anchor. New China TV/YouTube China’s state press agency has developed what it calls “AI news anchors,” avatars of real-life news presenters that...
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The Eight Types of AI You Should Know About

Clarity of purpose can ensure the ethical application of AI technologies, including popular chatbots Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broadly-used term, akin...
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ABC News Elects to Add AR to Midterm Election Coverage

Election Day is like the Super Bowl for network and cable TV news, so ABC News is breaking out the big guns with a new...
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Bell Says Latest Helicopter was Designed 10 Times Faster With VR

Image courtesy Bell Helicopter Bell Helicopter challenged its Innovation Team to accelerate its aircraft design process. Turning to VR as a key improvement to their...
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How the Oil Industry Can Benefit from IoT Technology

There are IoT applications in the oil industry that could potentially mitigate the worst effects of oil spills. We could prevent the next Deepwater Horizon...
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Worldscale Virtual Reality is Exciting … and Maybe Dangerous

Oculus formally unveiled the Oculus Quest last month. It’s a 6DoF (6 degrees of freedom) standalone headset, meaning no tethers and no external computer. Yet it...