Amazon announced the opening of interactive Amazon Experience Centers within select Lennar model homes across the United States. In these Alexa-enabled smart homes, customers can simply ask Alexa to control the television, lights, thermostat, shades, and more. The model homes showcase how customers can use Alexa in their everyday lives. Customers can experience just how […]
Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference with a barrage of announcements that show how artificial intelligence (AI) will give its next Android mobile operating system the ability to learn how people use their phones to make calls, schedule their day, listen to music, book tickets and read news. Android P will have augmented […]
A host of major brands have begun working with Limitless, the UK-based inventor and provider of a platform offering crowd sourced customer service. In Europe, Limitless is now working with Unilever, Vodafone, National Express, New Day, Wargaming and Daily Mail Group; whilst in the US and Canada they are working with Unilever North America and […]
For the second year in a row, marketing agency Stone Temple Consulting has confirmed that Google Assistant is the smartest and the most efficient virtual assistants on the market. In an attempt to figure out which smart speaker is the most intelligent, Stone Temple asked the Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana approximately […]
Beauty giant Coty has unveiled a smart augmented reality ‘magic mirror’ in its Bourjois boutique in Paris which lets users try on products virtually when they physically pick them up. Coty is describing the tech as “blended reality”. It’s been designed to promote Bourjous’ new ‘Velvet’ lipstick range, and to activate it users stand in […]
Amazon has rolled out a new set of tools called Alexa Skill Blueprints, which lets users create custom responses for the smart assistant. The e-commerce giant is providing users with a set of simple templates that help in creating personalised experiences for Alexa within minutes by simply filling in the blanks. The Alexa skills a […]
Humans are usually good at isolating a single voice in a crowd, but computers? Not so much — just ask anyone trying to talk to a smart speaker at a house party. Google may have a surprisingly straightforward solution, however. Its researchers have developed a deep learning system that can pick out specific voices by […]
Relay42, a company that empowers marketers to create AI-driven customer journeys, has published a socially-sourced whitepaper that provides a unique view of the relationship between marketing and technology. The whitepaper, entitled ‘Cross-channel Personalization: The Heart of Customer-centricity’, found that the potential of technology to make the marketing function more effective and sophisticated cannot be underestimated […]
Mondelēz International owned Lacta chocolate, has always been a symbol for love in Greece. Years of advertising have established it as the perfect gift to give on Valentine’s day. But in an age of obsession with technology and Artificial Intelligence, Lacta wanted to remind everyone that without love, life is tasteless and that what […]
After 200 million downloads (and counting), mobile games publisher Deemedya had a problem; existing platforms that promised to increase app monetization simply weren’t delivering. So the team decided to go away and build their perfect platform. After 18 months in stealth mode, Game of Whales is the result. Game of Whales is a new kind […]