Normally, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant communicates through a ring of blue lights. They blink to life when Alexa hears its name, then whirl around the top of an Echo device while Alexa thinks. But when Sonos started working on integrating Alexa into its multi-room wireless music system a year and a half ago, though, that …

Unless the majority of clothing and footwear companies — and not just high-end fashion lines like Stella McCartney or select manufacturers like Adidas — start to make sustainability a priority, the problem will only get worse. That’s where Russian fashion industry scion Miroslava Duma and her new organization come in. Fashion Tech Labs is an …

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Next Story Bluecore marketing automation platform raises $35 million in Series C Alexa is officially the first voice assistant to be available on Sonos, a move that turns the wireless speaker product into a voice-controlled sound system. Originally https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/sonos-partners-with-amazon-spotify-for-enhanced-music-control/announced a year ago, Sonos has been working “day and night” with Amazon to implement the features. Alexa …

New research has predicted that mixed reality devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens will start gaining sales momentum come 2019. This forecast comes from CCS Insight, with the analyst firm believing that 2018 is going to mark the start of growth in adoption of AR (augmented reality) devices. Also, ‘enhanced AR’ hardware (which is what CCS calls …

Destiny 2 is a game about dying. But it has trouble remembering that. I’ve already explained the bizarro premise of the Destiny series, which casts you as a Guardian, an undying space superhero powered by the energy of a machine deity. What I failed to mention in that initial description, though, is how Destiny 2 …

Put simply, if two autonomous vehicles are driving down a road, then all they can “see” is the data from their own systems. But if you can connect your car, say, to the one immediately behind you, then both systems get a wider field of view and better situational awareness. In an overtaking situation, the …

Ruben Harris Contributor Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Startups podcast. More posts by this contributor: East Palo Alto was the number one murder capital in …