9 Best Articles in 2020
TechCrunch
Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps
TechCrunch
7 min read · 207 saves · Apr 18th · Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could…
The New York Times
Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop
The New York Times
5 min read · 177 saves · Feb 14th · Kashmir Hill · Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.
Guardian Tech
'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?'
Guardian Tech
10 min read · 159 saves · 2019-10-09 · Dorian Lynskey · There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
WIRED
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
WIRED
2 min read · 146 saves · May 18th · Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen…
The Verge
Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard
The Verge
2 min read · 141 saves · 2019-12-18 · Jacob Kastrenakes · So everything will just work with whatever smart assistant you already have.
Guardian Tech
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings
Guardian Tech
3 min read · 111 saves · 2019-07-26 · Alex Hern · Workers hear drug deals, medical details and people having sex, says whistleblower
VentureBeat
Google launches TensorFlow machine learning framework for graphical data
VentureBeat
110 saves · 2019-09-03 · Khari Johnson · Google's Neural Structured Learning is an open source framework that works with TensorFlow to train neural networks with graphical data.
Smashing Magazine
Combining Graphical And Voice Interfaces For A Better User Experience
Smashing Magazine
~13 min read · 97 saves · From 2017 · With? ?the? ?appearance? ?of? ?voice? ?user? ?interfaces,? ?AI? ?and? ?chatbots,? ?**what is? ?the? ?future? ?of? ?graphical? ?user? ?interfaces** (GUIs)?? ?Don’t? ?worry: Despite? ?some dark? ?predictions?,? ?GUIs? ?will? ?stay? ?around? ?for? ?many? ?years? ?to? ?come. Let? ?me? ?share? ?my? ?personal, humble predictions? ?and? ?introduce? ?multi-modal? ?interfaces as? ?a? ?more? ?human? ?way? ?of? ?communication? ?between? ?user? ?and? machine.
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MIT Technology Review
Amazon wants Alexa to run your life. First, it must know everything about you
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 93 saves · 2019-11-05 · The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need.
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Vox
How to keep the smart speaker you got for the holidays and still keep some of your…
Vox
7 min read · 16 saves · Dec 9th · Sara Morrison · What you can do to minimize what Amazon and Google hear.
Sifted
Quantum computers will create better versions of Alexa and Siri
Sifted
1 min read · 14 saves · Dec 10th · Cambridge Quantum Computing has built a “meaning-aware” natural language processing system on a quantum computer.
VentureBeat
Amazon launches Live Translation mode for Alexa
VentureBeat
1 min read · 10 saves · Dec 14th · Kyle Wiggers · Amazon launched a new Live Translation feature for Alexa that recognizes and translates between languages in real time.
The Verge
Siri can now play animal sounds and more
The Verge
1 min read · Dec 15th · Mitchell Clark · The voice assistant is following Google’s lead from 2017.
