Google on Wednesday announced a deal to buy Moodstocks, a French startup behind technology that helps smartphones recognize whatever they are aimed at.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 6, 2016
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Smart home technology that has long been knocking at doors will settle into the mainstream after rival gadgets and services become hassle-free guests that get along with one another, industry insiders say.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 25, 2016
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Google on Wednesday unveiled a virtual home assistant device that will challenge Amazon Echo as the Internet giant laid out a future rich with artificial intelligence.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 18, 2016
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Imagine you want to measure the size of a room, but it's completely dark. If you shout, you can tell if the space you're in is relatively big or small, depending on how long it takes to hear the echo after it bounces off ...
Astronomy
Apr 26, 2016
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Ford unveiled an alliance Tuesday with US online giant Amazon aimed at allowing people to connect their cars into "smart home" networks.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 5, 2016
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Recordings from echolocating bat brains have for the first time given researchers a view into how mammals understand 3-D space.
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2015
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When I brought home review models of Amazon's Echo speaker, a sort of smart, voice-controlled speaker, and two Dash buttons that reorder household products with a single touch, I wasn't convinced I'd find them all that useful ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 15, 2015
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Thousands of years before humans invented agriculture, a bright burst of X-rays left the dense neutron star Circinus X-1, located in the faint Southern constellation Circinus. A year and a half ago, those X-rays were detected ...
Astronomy
Jul 3, 2015
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Play a flute in Carnegie Hall, and the tone will resonate and fill the space. Play that same flute in the Grand Canyon, and the sound waves will crash against the rock walls, folding back in on each other in sonic chaos. ...
General Physics
May 22, 2015
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Internet retail titan Amazon on Thursday introduced a home virtual assistant always at the ready to answer questions, fetch news, play music or help with to-do lists.
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 6, 2014
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