You can add one more device to the pile of gadgets vying for your attention, now that Amazon has switched Alexa's notifications on. The e-commerce titan first revealed that visual notifications were coming to its speakers on its developer site back in May. Now, the feature is live, though in very limited capacity. According to Fast Company and AFTVNews, it can only tell you about packages out for delivery at the moment. It doesn't seem to be available for other Alexa skills yet, but hey, at least you can take the feature for a spin on Prime Day.

The voicebot ecosystem is growing immensely -- and amazing opportunities abound. Reading a recent post by Alon Bonder, and realizing the main subject of conversation for product managers, startups, and developers is voice-tech, I figured out some points to help you focus on building the right product for what's coming next. Basically, the mobile apps ecosystem we saw growing 10 years ago is making a return, but this time it is all about…voice. In the beginning, before the mobile apps ecosystem rose in popularity, problems weren't as clear as they are today. Specific iOS apps had memory problems; the UI was too simple; the development platforms were horrid (or nonexistent); there weren't enough solutions for mobile app marketing, acquisition, and attribution; and the competition featured apps alongside thousands of farting, semi-funny, and non-valuable apps.

"OK Google, what can you do when connected to Talend?" In this tutorial, I will show how to create an Agent in API.AI that will respond to commands spoken to Google Home. The Agent will reverse the words in a sentence spoken to Google Home by making use of a Talend web service which is used to carry out the word reversal. A very simple example, but it demonstrates the ground work you will need to create some really quite interesting applications. You do not need one to try this tutorial out as Google has provided an emulator, but I can highly recommend the device. Recently Google opened up access to the Actions on Google API. You can either use the Actions SDK or use API.AI. API.AI was recently acquired by Google. While API.AI is really quite simple to use, it is quite limited in how it can be used with Google Home at the moment.

We've just had a big tech season. Between Facebook's F8 conference, Google's I/O Conference and Apple's most recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) we've seen the big plans that these tech companies plan on focusing on over this next year. As a huge Apple supporter, I have to say, companies like Google in particular are giving Apple a run for their money. Companies like Google have been focusing on their plans for continued growth and improvement around artificial intelligence and augmented reality. This is setting the bar even higher for Apple whose own intelligent assistant Siri still has a lot of issues when used. Siri does not have the greatest speech recognition and is not connected enough to go in and execute commands.

No, I'm not talking about the strategy in which Apple rolls out a smart speaker years behind its competitors -- the one that has left former Apple employees and the world at large confused as to why the wealthiest, most design-centric tech company in the world took so long to unveil HomePod. I'm talking about the other Siri strategy -- the one to gradually roll out new ways for iOS developers to connect their apps with Siri. Siri is nearly six years old, the first popular intelligent assistant of its kind in a smartphone. But Apple is a company that gained its status not by being first to market, but by producing a superior product. As with the Apple Watch and iPhone, years from now Apple can tell us all how brilliant it was to quietly apply the lessons it learned from the early days of the App Store -- when the total number of apps did not ensure the delivery of value. Instead of going for a large number of apps, Siri would do well to go deep and help users solve their biggest problems.

Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360 company. Let us tell the world your success story. From creating personalized shopping experiences to offering virtual buying assistants -- AI is improving the online shopping experience for consumers and retailers. Shoppers will be able to easily find the best price for an item and communicate with chatbots for quick customer service. For retailers, they'll be able to better analyze consumer data to predict future buying patterns, create autonomous replenishing systems and also save money and time on customer service by utilizing chatbots.

Artificial-intelligence technology is all around us, in the form of voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and more. But this technology extends beyond recognizing a song or telling us the weather. At last year's Business Insider IGNITION conference, David Kenny, the general manager of IBM's Watson division, discussed the AI project. According to Kenny, Watson is most advanced in the health field. One example of its success potentially saved a life.

The most trending topic of technology 2017 is undoubtedly Artificial Intelligence. Big companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft are investing money in this field. The most shocking thing is, smartphones are also trying to incline towards artificial intelligence. They are working hard in the research of this field. People nowadays are finding ways to make their lives easy and comfortable. AI is the only way to make this happen.

Some of us have had the misfortune to experience ghosting, while others have fallen victim to'breadcrumbing', or being led on without any hope of a date. Now online daters have yet another tactic to beware of - 'kittenfishing' - and it might be the most tricky of all, due to its clever subtlety. Kittenfishing is the lesser version of'catfishing', where someone steals another person's identity and pictures to lure in potential dates, according to experts from the dating app Hinge. It involves presenting yourself in an'unrealistically positive light', by employing tactics such as getting a friend to ghost write their profile, posting outdated or heavily filtered photos or adding a few inches to your height. Kittenfishers are also likely to bend the truth when it comes to their job title or level of education.

Google has had voice search features in Android for years, but when Google Assistant rolled out on the Pixel in October 2016, everything finally came together. You can now get Assistant on plenty of Android devices, and Google just improved the platform with a raft of new features in recent weeks. It can be easy to miss the improvements if you don't obsessively keep an eye on the news, so here they are in one place: the five coolest new features in Google Assistant. Google used to hide all of Assistant's features in a series of esoteric, buried menus. Now, there's a much more sensible way to find out what sort of cool things you can do with Assistant in the Explore menu.