Alexa

Image: AmazonAmazon already has a stranglehold on most of the stuff people buy, and now the retail giant wants to sell you a car.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayCars will begin showing up next year on Amazon, the company revealed at the LA Auto Show Thursday. Amazon is partnering with Hyundai, which will be the first cars sold on the site in 2024. In turn, Hyundai vehicles will start Amazon Web Services for its cloud services and begin incorporating Alexa into the cars. “Hyundai is a very innovative company that…

Hyundai At the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show, Amazon and Hyundai announced a partnership that will bring Amazon Alexa Built-in apps to future Hyundai vehicles and will make Hyundai the first brand in Amazon’s planned foray into online car sales. Starting in 2025, “next-generation” Hyundai vehicles will offer the same Alexa experience users get at home, the automaker’s announcement said. Drivers will be able to ask Alexa to play music podcasts or audiobooks, set reminders, update to-do lists, and check calendars, as well…

After months of hype and speculation, the self-proclaimed “smart phone killer” is here. Humane, a startup founded by two former Apple employees, has launched its hotly anticipated AI pin, a small, cookie-sized device that you stick to the front of your shirt and that, according to its creators, is designed to revolutionize our relationship to computing. While Thursday finally saw the startup unveil some details about its long anticipated product, the jury’s still out on whether it’s actually going to compel you to throw…

Photo: Andrew Liszewski | GizmodoAs with Robosen’s Optimus Prime, its Grimlock auto-converting robot can be controlled using simple voice commands, and it doesn’t need to connect to a smart assistant like Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. Right out of the box,you can simply say, “Hey Grimlock,” and the robot will respond with an enthusiastic, “Yes, we go!,” in a voice that will sound familiar to fans of the original ‘80s Transformers animated series because Robosen used Gregg Berger, the original voice of Grimlock, to…

Jonah Hill, known for his roles in movies, including The Wolf of Wall Street and 21 Jump Street, amid numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, has been accused of kissing The Walking Dead actor Alexa Nikolas without her consent when she was 16. Hill is already facing charges of emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady, who had also called him a “misogynist narcissist”. According to reports, Nikolas tweeted on how Hill allegedly approached her and offered her a cigarette: “Jonah Hill…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJonah Hill has denied an allegation from actor Alexa Nikolas that he assaulted her when she was 16.Nikolas, now 31, claimed on Twitter on Sunday (9 July) that Hill had “slammed her to door” and “stuck his tongue down throat” while outside a house party.The Superbad star, 39, described the claim as “a complete fabrication” in a denial provided to Page Six. Nikolas is best known for…

Amazon puts tens of thousands of items on sale during Amazon Prime Day every year, but finding a valuable needle in that haystack can be hard. Fortunately, my colleagues and I have spent years combing through deals like these, especially on tech items, and have a pretty good sense of what’s worthwhile and what’s not.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayThis rolling list highlights some of the best ideas for Amazon Prime Day 2023, which runs July 11-12. Items have been selected by our experts (I’ve been covering Prime…

Raj Reddy is an Indian scientist known among the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence.Voice-based AI chatbots like Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Assistant are now found in every second home and nearly every device. But not many know that the man who was the brain behind the technology crucial to such intelligent chatbots.Raj Reddy is an Indian scientist known as the pioneer of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was born Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy in a village in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district to a farmer father and a…

The $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which makes Roomba vacuums, by Amazon is being investigated by the European Commission due to concerns about competition in the robotic vacuum market. The European Commission is worried that Amazon might limit the ability of iRobot's competitors to sell their products on its platform and that Amazon could prioritise iRobot's products in search results or charge more for advertising competing products. Furthermore, there are concerns among authorities regarding the potential for…

Science fiction promises us all sorts of sentient automatons once artificial intelligence becomes a part of our daily lives—not hockey puck-sized speakers. Determined to breathe more life into Amazon’s smart assistant, Thomas Burns hacked together a CRT TV and a pair of moving eyes to make Alexa feel more engaging—or look more like an eighth-grade science project, depending on how you look at it.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyAlthough most devices with built-in smart assistants provide some kind of visual…