Gartner estimates that by 2022, abou/t 70% of white-collar workers will have interacted with a virtual assistant in some capacity. This means that giving customers the kind of virtual assistant experience they want is critical, which is where using data inputs from interaction history is critical. Even small details, such as the way a virtual assistant greets a customer or its placement on the company homepage, can make a big difference to the way a customer feels about the interaction. How fast a company responds to data inputs about these details can be what makes or breaks their success in conversational AI. In this regard, the focus on easy-to-build and easy-to-maintain digital assistant solutions will also go up – the more a company can solve its problems, the more customer-friendly it will be.

Summer is here and you're probably ready to party, see your friends, and mostly get back to yucking it up responsibly outdoors. But as plenty of people aren't comfortable venturing into the crowded world just yet, you're still going to spend time indoors. Either way, you'll want some tunes, and Sonos has made a speaker pretty well-suited for both environments. While the Sonos Roam has a few shortcomings, it's pretty impressive. But when traditional Bluetooth speakers have gotten pretty inexpensive, is it worth the hefty $169 price tag?

Netflix has purchased a documentary on the "Tinder Swindler," who tricked women he met on the dating app into giving him millions of dollars. The notorious con-man pretended to be Russian oligarch Simon Leviev, the son of Russian-Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev. He would take his victims -- mostly Scandinavian women -- on trips via private jets, stay with them in luxury hotels and treat them to expensive dinners. In truth, he's an Israeli man named Shimon Hayut, who fled to Europe twice to escape theft, forgery and fraud charges in his home country. Online dating scams have been fairly common these past years, with con-artists using every available outlet into finding potential victims.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has broadly achieved popularity in the music industry in recent years. The primary reason behind it is an evolution that took place in the streaming sector in recent years. Another reason is core music streaming app development. Most artists and streaming app companies are investing in streaming app like Pandora, Spotify, and many others. It helps them to analyze everything starting from users' preferences of the listeners and deliver work accordingly.

With more and more people getting fully vaccinated against COVID-19, many single folks are ditching virtual dates for in-person ones. Those looking for love in New York City will soon have a new spot where they can meet up for dates, a café/restaurant/wine bar from dating app Bumble. Bumble Brew is scheduled to open for breakfast service on July 24th. Lunch and dinner service will start at the Nolita spot in the coming weeks. Along with an 80-seat dining room, there will be a cocktail bar, patio dining and private dining space.

Voice assistants changed the way we interact with technology. Why set an alarm manually when Alexa can do it for you? Want to get more out of your Amazon Echo? Tap or click here for new tricks such as using your Echo as a speakerphone to finding the right wine to pair with a particular dish. Tap or click here for my favorite Siri shortcuts.

Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon's Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so that, as the corporate behemoth says, users can "remove any ... personal content from the applicable device(s)" before selling or discarding them. But researchers have recently found that the digital bits that remain on these reset devices can be reassembled to retrieve a wealth of sensitive data, including passwords, locations, authentication tokens, and other things. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Most IoT devices, the Echo Dot included, use NAND-based flash memory to store data.

Blockchain, AI, edge computing, crypto, and most tech buzzwords are part of the Web 3.0 revolution. The next generation of the web promises to be omnipresent, intuitive, secure, and independent. What might this mean for my future children? Today you can command a virtual assistant from a handheld device or kitchen speaker to get the current value of Ethereum -- a digital currency built on a blockchain. Creating an account with a new service is often a one-step process of selecting Google, Facebook, or Apple from a list.

If you are not living under a rock, then you might've heard of artificial intelligence quite often in the past two decades. Although artificial intelligence is not a new thing, its implications have strongly influenced various sectors in the past couple of years, drawing more attention to the tech radar. Today, starting from virtual assistants to self-driving cars, everything is entrenched by artificial intelligence. If you are looking for a long future in technology, then you should take up AI and ML courses to shape your career. Artificial intelligence and machine learning courses pave the way to keep your goals high as a developer and help you get the highest paying jobs.

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