What’s new Google acquires natural language understanding startup API.AI In addition to its developers tools, Api.ai offers a conversational assistant app with more than 20 million users. Google did not disclose its plans for integrating the startup’s technology. That will be important, as Google already has tools for natural language understanding and speech recognition, and…
What’s new Alienware claims VR laptops will be Nintendo Wii U’s rival soon The new Alienware laptops have VR capability thanks to NVIDIA’s GTX 10-Series graphics, but they are only another step in a major scheme. Alienware global marketing director Joe Olmsted claims the next-generation VR-ready Alienware notebook coupled with the HTC Vive or Oculus…
Important announcements Samsung is sending mixed signals about what to do with the Galaxy Note 7 Samsung’s troubles as it tries to recall millions of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are continuing to stack up, and its advice for dealing with the phones just got a little more complicated. Now, Samsung is telling customers in South…
What’s new Virtual reality in spotlight at Tokyo Game Show It’s still anyone’s guess how VR will play out as a business in years ahead. But most everyone agrees that’s the way of the future. And Yasuo Takahashi, director at Sony Interactive Entertainment, the game division of Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp., believes…
What’s new Alexa can finally change the colors of your Philips Hue lights Philips Hue’s app-enabled, color-changing light bulbs were among the very first smart-home gadgets to sync with Alexa, Amazon’s popular voice-activated, virtual assistant. Pair the two up, and you’ll be able to turn lights on and off or dim them up and down…
What’s new Samsung is sending mixed signals about what to do with the Galaxy Note 7 Samsung’s troubles as it tries to recall millions of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are continuing to stack up, and its advice for dealing with the phones just got a little more complicated. Now, Samsung is telling customers in South…
What’s new Nexus Launcher becomes Pixel Launcher, confirms brand change As if putting all rumors to rest, the app launcher for Google’s next smartphones has just been leaked, and it isn’t called the Nexus Launcher like in the past. Instead, the formal name, based on leaks from LlabTooFer, is “Pixel Laucher”. The name change, though…
What’s new Microsoft’s Lumia line will be killed off in December, report claims According to WinBeta, an anonymous source within Microsoft claims that the company will be ending sales of all Lumia handsets by the end of the year. Anyone who has been keeping the track of the company will not find this piece of…
Important announcements IoT LoRaWAN network goes live in Sydney Australia’s first live Internet of Things (IoT) network has been launched in Sydney, with the network based on the low-power, long-range (LoRaWAN) open standard. The network operates on the 915MHz industrial and scientific-allocated spectrum band, which is currently used for consumer devices operating under Low Interference…
What’s new Air passengers warned not to use Galaxy Note 7 An exploding phone is by no means a good thing, but if it has to explode, it’s hard to think of a worse place for it to do so than on a plane. Well, not that hard, but it’s definitely a bad one. In…
