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Below find a carefully chosen selection of five Alexa skills worth trying from new, trending, and otherwise noteworthy voice apps available in the Alexa Skills Store on Amazon.com, which now has more than 20,000 skills. In case you missed it, Alexa Routines for the creation of scheduled tasks or custom commands launched for the first […]

Cisco announced plans Thursday to bring voice control to its Cisco Spark Room series hardware, the first step in a larger plan to make an AI-powered meeting assistant available across all Cisco hardware. The Cisco Spark Assistant uses natural language processing and machine learning to understand what a person wants by harnessing technology from MindMeld, the […]

Bringing together two of its major offerings for the first time, Amazon has announced that all Prime members with an Alexa-enabled device now get up to six additional questions when they play Jeopardy on weekdays. Everyone can play Jeopardy and get six new questions a day for free, but Double Jeopardy is only free to […]

GUEST: Artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies are used in many industries to tackle tasks traditionally performed by people. These technologies change the economics of performing specific tasks and potentially change the speed and quality of those actions. These benefits do come with some trade-offs, but when used properly, the implementation of these technologies can drastically change […]