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Amazon introduces new $99 Eero mesh Wifi routers

Amazon is launching a new generation of Eero router, the first new iteration of Eero hardware since it acquired the company earlier this year. The new router is $99 for one, or available in a three-pack for $249, and is available in the U.S. today and in Europe later this year. Alongside the new hardware, Amazon has added even more specific voice commands for its routers, including the ability to turn on and off guest Wifi via voice, as well as pause Wifi access for specific devices on the network…

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How parking app SpotHero is preparing for an era of driverless cars

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 NewsEditorapi, car sharing, carsharing, caterpillar, deloitte, Google, inrix, Moovit, New York, North America, parking, San Francisco, Seattle, shared mobility, spothero, United States, US Cellular, Washington D.C., Waze

On-demand parking app SpotHero wants to be ready for the day when autonomous vehicles are ubiquitous. Its strategy: target the human-driven car-sharing fleets today. The Chicago-based company, which has operations in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. and Seattle, has launched a new service dubbed SpotHero for Fleets that targets shared mobility and on-demand services. The service aims to be a one-stop shop for car-sharing and commercial fleets to handle all that goes into ensuring there is access and the right number of designated parking areas on any given day…

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Dasha AI is calling so you dont have to

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 NewsEditorapi, artificial intelligence, chatbot, conversation engine, Dasha AI, digital assistant, machine learning, New York, robot, RTP Ventures, Speech Recognition, telephony, text-to-speech, voice AI

While you’d be hard-pressed to find any startup not brimming with confidence over the disruptive idea they’re chasing, it’s not often you come across a young company as calmly convinced it’s engineering the future as Dasha AI. The team is building a platform for designing human-like voice interactions to automate business processes. Put simply, it’s using AI to make machine voices a whole lot less robotic. “What we definitely know is this will definitely happen,” says CEO and co-founder Vladislav Chernyshov. “Sooner or later the conversational AI/voice AI will replace…

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Guardian Circle upgrades with a decentralized alert network

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 NewsEditor911, api, Banking, blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, distributed computing, ethereum, Guardian Circle, Guardium, Intel, Sequoia, Snapchat, Softbank

Chris Hays and Mark Jeffrey wanted to create a way for everyone to be able to tell their loved ones if they were in trouble. Their first product, Guardian Circle, did just that, netting a mention a few years ago. Now the same team is truly decentralizing alerts with a new token called, obviously, Guardium. The plan is to create an ad hoc network of helpers and first responders. “Guardium and Guardian Circle together open the emergency response grid to vetted citizens, private response and compatible devices for the very first…

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Londons transport regulator looks to startups to help fix urban mobility

November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 NewsEditorapi, Bosch, Chicago, civic tech, London, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, smart products, smart technology, transport for london, urban mobility

London’s transport regulator, TfL has announced a partnership with Bosch for its forthcoming co-working space in Shoreditch. The civic tech project is intended to run for 18 months as a pilot — though Bosch’s ‘Connectory’ co-working facility won’t open until the end of January. A company spokeswoman confirmed the partnership is nonetheless up and running now. The aim of the collaborative project is to share data and expertise, including by tapping into London’s startup ecosystem, to land on new ideas for tackling urban mobility issues — from traffic jams to…

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Instagram now allows businesses to schedule their posts

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 NewsEditorapi, Apps, Brands, Businesses, Facebook, hootsuite, instagram, Mobile, social, Social Media

Instagram today made a long overdue change to its product that social media managers have wanted for some time – it will allow businesses on Instagram to schedule their posts. Before, there were unofficial means to aid with this – like tools that would send out a push notification to remind you to publish a post at a given time, for example. But no functionality was available in Instagram itself. The closest Instagram got was the added support for Drafts, which allowed social media managers and other users to prep…