Amazon debuts Lex service as OEMs tap into Alexa
Amazon’s Lex handles speech recognition and natural language processing as a web service.
Singapore raises biotech bet with $800M Verily stake
As part of the deal, Temasek will nominate a director to Verily's operating board and collaborate with Verily to expand…
Why robotics may soon require new links in the chain
Long term, autonomous robots could become highly disruptive to supply chains, particularly for electronics components supply chains.
Google courts OEMs to embed smart assistant
Google is in talks with OEMs about embedding in their consumer electronics products the Assistant, a voice recognition and search…
Qualcomm emerges big winner at Google’s event
As many as five of Qualcomm's chips are inside the Pixel phones, the Snapdragon 821, two PMICs, an audio codec…
Gartner: Global smartphone sales grow by 4.3%
Five of top 10 worldwide mobile phone vendors saw increased sales in Q2, according to Gartner, with global sales of…
Android wins back market share from iOS
In terms of the smartphone OS market, Android regained share over iOS to achieve an 86% share.
Machine learning for the future
Google fellow Jeff Dean outlines the history of machine learning (ML), neural networks and various ways to programme models to…