AI & Robotics

Amazon operates in 14 countries around the world, nine of which are eligible for its Prime yearly subscription service. It goes without saying that the company has a real desire to make available its shopping experience in any number of languages, particularly where customers who speak different dialects are searching for the same products. In pursuit of an efficient means of translating multiple…

iRobot’s IFTTT support is about to become much more useful if you’re a fan of smart home tech. The company has formed a partnership with IFTTT that will let you integrate smart home gadgets directly inside iRobot’s Home App, effectively giving those devices control over your Roomba vacuum or Braava mop. To start, iRobot’s IFTTT page already has five recipes for common…

Google Assistant is now used by 500 million monthly active users, and today Google is previewing features on the way in 2020 like a new voice that reads articles and web pages aloud to users with a more natural and humanlike voice. Later this year, saying “Hey Google, read it” or “Hey Google, read this page” will trigger the assistant to read or translate text from an article or webpage…