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Facebook working on voice assistant to compete with Alexa

Facebook Inc is working to develop a voice assistant to compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Alphabet Inc’s Google Assistant, Reuters reports. “We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and future products”, a spokesperson for the company told...

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Voice command: is it the future of online shopping?

With the spread of language assistants such as Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa, online shopping has again taken a big step forward in its push for convenience-buying. By 2020 at the latest, 50 percent of search queries will be voice-based, according to market research company comsCore. When considering this innovative movement, certain...