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Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised

Brett Sappington discussing voice and its role as a user interface in the connected home.
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Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers.  During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device, Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire TV stick:  “I’m having trouble understanding right now… try again later.” “Your echo device lost its WiFi […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment CES2018 Internet of Everything Technology Telemedicine Virtual Reality Wearable & Implantables Wireless

The Consumer Experience Show #CES2018

Collage of images from CES2018.
Collage of images from CES2018.

For decades, the acronym CES stood for Consumer Electronics Show. A few years ago, in recognition of its expanded scope, the show organizers changed it from an acronym to simply a word, CES.  The meaning of CES continues to evolve and some of the descriptors that might be used to describe CES in 2018 include […]

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