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James Glasnapp Contributor James Glasnapp is a senior UX researcher at PARC. More posts by this contributor Nine requirements for a successful private ridesharing system Artificial intelligence is...
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Microsoft has big plans for its new Edge browser
Microsoft is setting itself some high goals for its new Chromium-based Edge browser. As Chuck Friedman, the corporate vice president for Edge told me, he wants Edge to hit one billion users — a number...
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BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car’s features
BMW today announced a number of updates to its in-car software experience during a VR press event, complete with a virtual drive through Munich to show off some of these features. These new updates...
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In a startup reprise, Courtne Smith launches NewNew, a social network based...
Since her departure from Drake’s entourage (where she worked as his longtime personal assistant) Courtne Smith has launched a line of hair products; a giveaway game that dropped swag like Yeezy shoes...
View ArticleFriday: A Personal Assistant That Remembers What You’ve Done
In the spirit of connecting your phone's activity to the cloud, a trend that has inspired one of this week's more interesting launches, Phonedeck, there now comes another application that wants to...
View ArticleIntelligent, Context-Aware Personal Assistant App “Friday” Makes Its Public...
How appropriate. That crazy Android personal assistant app called Friday is debuting today, on a Friday. Marketing genius! Friday comes from a startup called Dexetra, the same folks who previously...
View ArticleNow You Can Ask Your Smartphone About The Past, Present Or Future: Android’s...
Dexetra, the company behind the Siri-like Android app Iris and the activity-tracking app Friday, is merging the two apps to work together more seamlessly on Android devices. Giving Siri a run for its...
View ArticleSherpa, The Top Spanish-Speaking Personal Assistant App, Comes To The U.S....
The “personal assistant” craze is in full effect on mobile devices, with Apple’s SIRI kicking off the fun. The dream of being able to speak out loud and have information come back to you is something...
View ArticleDialapp’s Predictive Dialer For Android Knows Who You’re Going To Call Next
A replacement for your Android smartphone's dialer (you know, the phone) may not sound revolutionary, but a new app, called simply Dialapp, wants to change your mind about that. From the makers of...
View ArticleRobin Labs Builds A Rear-View Mirror Personal Assistant For New Strategic...
Robin Labs -- maker of the eponynous personal assistant app -- has been in the news of late because of a leaked video that shows a mobile app personal assistant customized to run on Yahoo services....
View ArticleX.ai Lands $2.1M To Build ‘Amy’, An AI-Powered Personal Assistant For Meetings
From the sometimes disappointing but often great reality of Siri to the complicated potential of Samantha, the idea of virtual personal assistants helping us with our digital-fuelled lives has captured...
View ArticlePersonal Concierge App Goodservice Nabs $1.6M From Sequoia To Expand In India
Goodservice wants to give users in India a personal assistant in their smartphone. The Mumbai-based app just scored seed funding of $1.6 million from Sequoia Capital, which it will use to increase the...
View ArticleMezi Is An Intelligent Virtual Assistant That’s Obsessed With Shopping
There is an increasingly large roster of personal assistant apps that use artificial intelligence in an attempt to make users' lives easier. Mezi is the newest contender and while it has plenty of...
View ArticleMaluuba wants to make chatbots smarter by teaching them how to read
Maluuba launched its first Siri-like personal assistant at TC Disrupt San Francisco four years ago. Since then, the company has raised $11 million and has licensed its technology to a number of handset...
View ArticleEmotech shows off Olly, the most likable personal assistant around
Over the years, we've seen a lot of devices you can talk to to make them do stuff. That's all good and well, but apart from talking back to you, they don't really seem to care about you all that much....
View ArticleHinge is testing a personal assistant service called Audrey to help you get...
Dating app Hinge recently pivoted from swiping to “stories,” in order to help people find real relationships. That focus on authenticity, however, seems to stand in contrast to a project the company...
View ArticleSay hello to the Home Mini, Google’s $49 answer to the Amazon Echo Dot
To the surprise of no one, Google today announced a smaller version of its Google Home smart speaker. The Google Home Mini looks like a small hockey puck and will retail for $50. At this size and...
View ArticleInside ‘Fin,’ the elite human/AI assistant
"I have FOMO for the future", says Sam Lessin. That's why his startup Fin is working backwards from a far-off tech utopia. One day, computers with some human help will answer our every beck and call....
View ArticleBMW says in-car digital assistants have to go beyond being ‘Echo Dots in a...
BMW wants to bring personal assistants to the car, but it doesn’t want to build its own. Instead, it wants to work with Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others to bring the best features of their...
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