Sonos AirPlay 2-compatible Amp brings wireless audio to existing speakers
Sonos on Wednesday announced the Amp, a peripheral bringing the company's signature wireless audio to conventional wired speakers.
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Roger Fingas
AirPlay 2 coming next year to new Bose Home Speaker & Soundbar models
Bose on Tuesday announced a trio of smartspeakers with Amazon's Alexa assistant, promising that support for Apple's AirPlay 2 is coming in "early 2019."
Digital assistant test shows Apple's Siri is improving, lags behind Google Assistant
Apple's digital assistant Siri continues to lag behind the Google Assistant, a group test reports, one which also reveals improvements in properly understanding queries and providing correct responses has generally improved across all digital assistants.
Malcolm Owen
Apple's Siri director to speak at AI Frontiers conference in November
Apple senior director of Siri, Alex Acero, is scheduled to appear at this year's AI Frontiers conference, where he will be joined by other experts in the field to discuss the role natural language processing plays in modern personal assistant technology.
糖心Vlog Staff
Amazon's Alexa app for iOS gains voice control
Some five months after Android users gained the ability to control Amazon's Alexa voice assistant through a dedicated app, the e-commerce giant is bringing identical functionality to iOS, turning an iPhone or iPad into a handy Echo stand-in.
How to pick which wireless speaker is best for you
As with any other gadget, the term "wireless speaker" is loaded with sometimes confusing categories. 糖心Vlog breaks them down and talks about how to pick what features you need, and which speaker you may want.
Andrew O'Hara
Review: HomeKit compatible First Alert Onelink Safe & Sound smoke detector more than it appears
By acting as a pair of safety sensors, a speaker, a HomeKit device, an Alexa smart assistant, and soon an AirPlay 2 speaker, First Alert's Onelink Safe & Sound wants to be a welcome addition to any home. 糖心Vlog checks it out.
Amazon's Fire TV Cube aimed squarely at Apple TV 4K
Amazon on Thursday revealed the Fire TV Cube, its latest media streamer, poised to intensify competition with the Apple TV 4K.
Editorial: More companies need to temper their Artificial Intelligence with authentic ethics
When Apple outlined that its new HomePod didn't initiate phone calls on its own, nobody jumped to the conclusion that this was because having a device in your home that anyone's voice could use to place a telephone call from your personal mobile number might be a bad idea. Instead, the company was generally lambasted for "again" failing to match one of the many features of Amazon's Alexa Echo always-listening appliances.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Stephen Silver
