Amazon's Alexa has learned how to be a personal stylist - and the skill is now available to everyone. The e-commerce giant has launched its Echo Look device to the public, allowing the AI to help you create a'personal lookbook' and design shareable photos. Before now, the device, which takes full-length photos and short videos of your outfit from every angle, was only available by invitation. There is also a service, called Style Check, that combines machine learning algorithms with advice from fashion specialists to give you a second opinion on your clothing choices. Amazon has released the Echo Look, which is an Alexa-powered camera that takes full-length photos and short videos of your outfit from every angle, helps you create a'personal lookbook' and creates shareable photos The Echo Look is priced at $199.99.

Sonos took the wraps off its latest smart speaker at an event in San Francisco earlier today. The $399 Sonos Beam is smaller and less expensive than either the Sonos Playbase or the older Sonos Playbar, and it will support Apple's AirPlay 2 multi-room audio technology when it ships in July. "All the tech giants are building smart speakers," said Chris Kallai, Sonos' VP of Hardware Product Management, when introducing the Sonos Beam. "But they're not doing it so you can listen to all the music you want. Kallai said the Beam combines three products into one: "Alexa, Apple Music, and a compact soundbar."

If you are not deaf to the things that are taking place in the tech world and all the ways new technologies are transforming our surroundings, you must have heard already about Artificial Intelligence (AI). This new facet of machine led intelligence is lately pushing growth for many businesses. Several leading tech brands are already in the research and development of AI enabled products including Google's self-driving car project to already unveiled Amazon's Alexa, the voice command enabled home theater system. When talking of artificial intelligence we can call to mind all the personal assistant applications that are making our user experience with handheld devices easier and richer. Thanks to digital assistants completing any task with simple voice commands became easier than ever before.

Spotify is gearing up to launch its own range of hardware products fuelling rumours the company plans to launch its own smart speaker. The music streaming service has registered with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), paving the way for it to sell hardware products for the first time. Without proper certification from the FCC, it is impossible to market or sell wireless products in the United States. Spotify has yet to submit any hardware for certification from the US government agency. The company has long been rumoured to be developing its own hardware, however, its registration with the FCC is the first evidence it is considering bringing products to market.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) saw its shares rise marginally on Wednesday after the company announced a new product in its Echo line. The e-commerce giant is expanding its virtual assistant to help users manage their closets and image better. Ultimately, Alexa will help users look their best with the Echo Look. Alexa on Echo Look is a style assistant that gives personalized recommendations, helps keep users' closets organized and provides fashion inspiration. Echo Look offers features like Style Check, Collections and suggestions of new pieces to complement users' existing wardrobe.

Smart speaker and home audio company Sonos is holding an event in San Francisco today, and the first bit of news is that AirPlay 2 support is coming in July. As previously announced Apple's latest streaming protocol will work with the Sonos One, Playbase, and Play:5 speakers -- anything older than that won't be supported, unfortunately. The update will come via software update, and it'll let you group together multiple Sonos speakers through Apple's apps. This means you can start up songs in Apple Music and send them directly to Sonos without having to use the dedicated Sonos app. Sonos gave a quick demo showing off what AirPlay 2 can do.

The Sonos Beam is a new $399 soundbar, but to Sonos, it's a heck of a lot more than just a speaker that sits under your television. It's a fabric-wrapped representation of how Sonos sees the future--one in which all the voice assistants from Apple and Google and Amazon can live next to one another. In this future, hip urban millennials parents will use Beam not just for Netflixing and HBOing, but queuing up the soundtracks to their hip, urban lives and for controlling their hip, urban smart home. And they'll do it all with spoken commands instead of an app or a remote. Development on the Beam has been going on for more than two years (during which time the speaker was referred to internally as "El Rey," Spanish for "The King"). And it's being released at a critical time for Sonos: It's been reported that the 16-year-old audio company will soon file to go public.

The rise of mobile banking in the last few years has coincided with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming more capable and pervasive in a variety of fields and applications. Although unrelated, the parallel growth in both the sectors has, of course, led to a confluence of the two, as more and more banking and finance institutions explore AI applications to improve their offerings and services. While enterprise-solutions are many – from more efficient data analytics to improved back-end workflows through automation – quite a few organisations have also explored consumer-facing applications of AI. One of the most widely adopted applications has been the consumer chat-assistant. Simply put, a chat assistant (colloquially called a chatbot) is an AI or computer programme that conducts conversations meant to replicate human conversation via auditory or textual means.

Today, Amazon announced that the Echo Look is now available to all customers. Previously, the smart style assistant was available by invitation only. The Echo Look has a depth-sensing camera with built-in LED lighting that allows you to snap a picture of what you're wearing with just your voice, thanks to Alexa. The assistant can then give you personalized recommendations and keep track of what's in your closet. The Style Check feature will tell you which of two outfits looks better on you (based on fit, color, style and trends), and another feature will recommend items that will go well with what you already own.

Most of the best Memorial Day tech sales have slowly trickled to an end, but with summer in full swing and new products coming out all the time, there are a surprising number of killer deals this week, including a rare sale on some excellent Google gadgets. With the help of our friends at TechBargains, below are some of our favorite deals going on this week. Google discounts some of its products now and then, but this week four of them have had their prices slashed. The Google Pixelbook is the most powerful Chromebook you can buy, by a longshot, and ChromeOS has improved considerably since we reviewed it late last year. Google Pixelbook Chromebook for $749 (Was $999) - Intel Core i5 CPU, 12.3-inch 2400x1600 touchscreen, 8GB RAM, and 128GB SSD With the Google Home Mini on sale, rival Amazon has put its competing Echo Dots on discount, along with the Echo Show, which is an Echo with a screen, perfect for your kitchen.