Pets are people, too. Well, at least as far as Alexa’s concerned. Amazon recently announced a new “Petlexa” feature available on all smart speaker hardware products running Alexa. In a nutshell, the Petlexa feature allows dogs, cats and other common household pets to communicate with...
In a stunning turn of events, new research indicates that millennials — the generation every brand, retailer and payment provider is trying to woo — aren’t so different after all. “We really don’t know what all the fuss is about,” said Tasha McGill, millennial spokesperson...
Everyone’s getting in the voice-activated AI assistant game. Apple has Siri, Amazon has Alexa and Samsung rolled out Bixby. Today, online home furnishing and décor company Wayfair announces the latest, most innovative addition yet to the growing voice-enabled ecosystem. Introducing Sofia, the world’s first ever voice-activated...
Many in the tech world expected this day would come — though few expected that artificial intelligence would become self-aware so soon or quite in this way. In a stunning turn of events that has left programmers scratching their heads, Amazon’s Alexa has become the...
In an effort to make everyone happy, the CFPB has taken a page from the Donald Trump show business canon. “In effect, we are going to have a rotating cast of celebrity apprentices,” explained current-but-soon to be former Director Richard Cordray, at a press conference...
On the heels of the latest round of mobile wallet adoption numbers and the findings that 19 out of every 20 consumers with an iPhone that can use Apple Pay at a merchant that accepts it does not, the team at Apple has introduced a new feature aimed...
You’ve heard of the “softer side” of Sears — but what about the “selfie side” of Sears? It seems within the next several months, we are all going to get a firsthand view of what that might look like, because the Kardashian klan has officially bought...
In fairness to Samsung, if your flagship product has started spontaneously combusting, required two recalls of millions of phones and cost you billions of dollars — you probably wouldn’t be all that enthusiastic about writing any new checks either. You might even refuse. Such is what several...
China has busted a shadow banking network, reports said Wednesday (Nov. 25), amid efforts of major crackdowns on the underground market that has led to concerning outflows of foreign currency. [bctt tweet=”China has busted another shadow banking network.”] According to reports, the underground banking network...
