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Google Assistant Predicts Flight Delays
Google Assistant Predicts Flight Delays
December 17, 2018  |  Google

Google Assistant is now using historic flight status data and machine learning to predict whether a traveler’s flight will be delayed — before the airline...

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Coty And Building Beauty eCommerce For A Voice-Activated World
Coty And Building Beauty eCommerce For A Voice-Activated World
December 12, 2018  |  Retail

Coty is not quite a household name — though the cosmetic, skincare, fragrance and hair color products it makes and distributes through the 77 beauty...

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Google Maps Launches ‘For You’ Tab
Google Maps Launches ‘For You’ Tab
December 10, 2018  |  Google

Google announced Monday (Dec. 10) that it has transferred its “For You” tab to Google Maps in more than 40 countries on iOS and more than 130 new...

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Is Voice The Glue Of The Google Ecosystem?
Is Voice The Glue Of The Google Ecosystem?
November 28, 2018  |  Ecosystems

Five years ago, a voice-activated device was mostly something that existed in the realm of science fiction. Siri had been around for a year or two...

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Google Assistant Launches Support For Siri Shortcuts
Google Assistant Launches Support For Siri Shortcuts
November 26, 2018  |  Google

Google Assistant has launched support for Siri Shortcuts with the release of its latest update. Launched in 2017, iOS for Assistant can perform all the...

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Bixby Eyes Third-Party Integration
Bixby Eyes Third-Party Integration
November 05, 2018  |  Voice Activation

Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant, to third-party app...

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Ecosystems: Google, Disney And The Power Of Parental Spend
Ecosystems: Google, Disney And The Power Of Parental Spend
October 31, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

There are some hit toys from the 1960s that were genuine classics – so much so that they are still with us today. This year, Ken Dolls,...

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Google Debuts Devices To Blunt Amazon Alexa Threat
Google Debuts Devices To Blunt Amazon Alexa Threat
October 10, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

As is often the case with big hardware events by Big Tech, the Made by Google Event was both surprising and not. Much of what...

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Google Backs Away From Chatbots
Google Backs Away From Chatbots
October 08, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

A not so very long time ago, chatbots were forecast to be the next big thing in digital ecosystems. Starting with Facebook’s big announcement of its...

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