Police in Florida are investigating whether they have stumbled on a silent witness to a possible murder and are trying to get the truth from "her". Sylvia Galva Crespo, 32, was killed by a spear to the chest at home in Hallandale Beach, Florida, north of Miami, in July, which her husband, Adam Crespo, 43, has portrayed as a mysterious accident. But police believe the Amazon Echo smart speaker devices in the home, known as Alexa because of the common "wake" word used to activate them, may have heard and recorded something relevant during the fatal altercation when the couple argued after a night out, the Sun Sentinel reported. "It is believed that evidence of crimes, audio recordings capturing the attack on victim Silvia Crespo that occurred in the main bedroom … may be found on the server maintained by or for Amazon," police wrote in a legal filing. Adam Crespo is charged with second-degree murder.

Welcome to Unofficial JBL Month here at CNET. Through sheer coincidence, I've had deals crop up on the JBL Link 10, JBL Link 500 (still available, by the way) and JBL Boost TV, all within the last 10 days or so. So just to finish off October in style, here's one more: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Daily Steals has the JBL Link 20 portable wireless voice-activated speaker for $59.99. The Link 20 is the big brother to the smaller Link 10 I wrote about last week and offers a similarly dazzling array of features: It's portable, waterproof and wireless times two (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi). It has built-in Google Assistant.

Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, is anticipated to become at least a $65 billion market in the next five years. Currently, it is almost impossible to find an established organisation that is not investing in AI technology. However, it seems like enough attention is not provided to this technology before it is availed to the users. There have been major catastrophes encountered due to the failure of AI, and this has made tech leaders legitimately worried about it. This article is little on the negative side, but necessary.

"Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on." We live in an age of Artificial Intelligence, the time when cutting edge technologies reinvent human experience.

Samsung's Bixby assistant won't be the reason you buy (or don't buy) your next Samsung-manufactured smartphone, smart refrigerator, smart router, or smart speaker. And Samsung is finally coming to terms with that. This was the implicit thread underlying the 2019 Samsung Developer Conference (SDC), which kicked off in earnest on Tuesday at the San Jose Convention Center. Unlike last year, when Samsung announced new languages for Bixby (German, French, Italian, and Spanish), plus Bixby Marketplace for third-party voice apps, this year's enhancements were on the whole understated. Bixby Templates and Bixby Views make it easier for developers to create capsules (apps, in Samsung's vernacular) across a range of devices, while Natural Language Categories enable Bixby to recommend apps by context instead of name. But two keynotes came and went without so much as a mention of the Galaxy Home, a Bixby-powered smart speaker that Samsung announced last August alongside the Galaxy Note9.

If you're considering getting or giving a smart speaker in the near future, the Echo Dot is a great place to start. It doesn't take up much real estate on the counter, it's relatively easy on the wallet, and it comes loaded with Alexa and her many, many capabilities. But now that there is a new generation of Echo Dots available, should you spring for the latest and greatest? Let's look at the new Dot, what makes it different, and whether it's worth the extra cash. The display on the third-generation Echo Dot with Clock can also display timers and weather.

Take a look at how people can build software to handle low-level tasks and massive calculations and what it means for both machine and human workloads. Researchers predict that designers at all wage levels and employees with deep industry knowledge will still be in high demand. The company says it will hold four free cloud and AI-focused events for developers in North America, India, Europe, and Asia. KPMG analyst predicts the milestones we can expect from virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence over the next 10 years. Employee outlooks on AI are changing.

Over the next year and a half, Nest became the face and name of Google's smart home offering, a division that's grown quickly as Google Home/Google Nest has become one of the top two players in the U.S. smart home category, rivaled only by Amazon's Alexa/Echo offerings.

In today's digital dating world, communicating clearly can sometimes get lost in translation. That's why new relationship terms have taken on a life of their own. Here are 5 new dating terms you should know. It's just like the old saying goes – the way to a Tinder date's heart may be through their stomach. An ambitious young man attempted to woo a woman he met through a dating app by showing off his pasta-making skills on Twitter, in a saga that has since gone viral online, as dozens of commenters root for sparks to fly.

'Cognitive' is everywhere these days. IBM Watson is pushing the concepts of Cognitive Computing from cancer research to cooking recipes. VPAs (virtual personal assistants) are gaining acceptance and adoption. Just look at the explosion behind Amazon's Alexa. Every technology show I attend has a few vendors now showing their Alexa interface and sometimes it even works. We're all talking at boxes and we expect those boxes to understand.