Giving people the ability to control objects with their voice has typically been the domain of big tech companies: Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple’s Siri. Shenzhen-based hardware company Seeed Studio wants to change that. “You can take a plant and make it something you can talk to,” says Xiaobo Ye, the product manager of ReSpeaker. “Now, raising a plant […]
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Alibaba’s Artificial Intelligence Will Be Able To Tell How Angry You Are
Alibaba has invested some serious dollars in their AI program, and as an e-retail platform it’s no surprise that cranky customers are one of their top concerns. The company is now using audio speech recognition to guess just how angry a customer is over anything from a botched product to a bungled order. “Speech recognition […]
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VR Tops the List of China’s Top 5 Tech News Searches In 2016
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, Baidu has announced the most searched news in China. Based on data collected in the first eleven months of this year, a total of 26 lists on a wide range of topics like international and domestic affairs, “in” words, poplar apps were complied by leveraging data from various services […]
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Lenovo Launches $500M Start-Up Fund Aimed At Robotics, AI & Cloud Computing
Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s original computer giant and the world’s largest PC maker, announced the launch of a $500 million USD startup fund, as the company seeks to diversify their business amid stagnating smartphone and PC sales. The fund, which will be managed internally by Lenovo Group, will search out investments in the artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud computing […]
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[Photos] Highlights Of GMIC Beijing 2016: Big Data And AI Are King
This year’s Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing went well and beyond smartphones, covering everything from drones to smart home devices, facial recognition to virtual reality (something we expect to see at most, if not all, tech conferences in China this year). Big data and artificial intelligence won the most limelight, underlining the fact that […]
