The current crop of virtual assistants like Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa fail to recognize too many words and have a difficult time recognizing words when there is noise in the environment. Microsoft has recently announced a recurrent neural network that goes a long way toward solving the first problem and VocalZoom has technology in hand that solves the second. It seems like combining the two is a no-brainer.

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We hear a lot about robots taking our jobs and AI taking over everything over and make us stupid. Instead, we should think about a merger between man and machine to bring out the best in both.

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Photo by Diane Bondareff/ Invision for Disney Consumer Products/AP Images In the sixties, when iTunes was still just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, the Grateful Dead figured out something very important. Back then the music industry put all of their effort into selling records. Concerts were just an advertising campaign […]

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Can some of the healthcare innovation seen in the West be easily copied and applied in the East? There are some major differences between the regions that make this challenging.

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Did you know that a majority of the “genuine” Apple chargers and adapters listed on Amazon.com are fakes? So Apple has filed a lawsuit against Amazon supplier Mobile Star LLC for trademark infringement because of that problem.

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‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 premiere gets off to a bloody, tragic start.

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Lynk & Co says the business model is “new” and will “challenge auto industry conventions”. Will they? Here’s what we know.

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