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• Why brands need to get into ‘voice’ in 2018

  Talking, once seen as the less cool forerunner of text messages and Whatsapp, is having something of a comeback, much like (regrettably) three members of the 90s British boyband, Five. Look at the race to dominate in voice-activated devices which saw the likes of Google, Amazon, ...

  • Liz Duff

• Alexa needs to shut down sexual harassment by shutting down

  Amazon has changed the way Alexa responds to suggestive and abusive language aimed at her, in response to outcries following the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. While her new response is admirable, I think there’s another way she can correct her harassers: by denying ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How Alexa could save the business meeting

  Get ready to make room for Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google at your conference room table. AI is about to head to the office. Already these “voice assistants” are learning to recognize different voices within one conversation and respond accordingly. When you ask Google Home about ...

  • J. Scott Christianson

• Alexa will be in future versions of Big Mouth Billy Bass and someone please kill me

  Amazon today announced the unholy union of Alexa and Big Mouth Billy Bass. This means the singing fish toy will soon be squirming ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Podcast leads to release of Swedish man after 13 years behind bars

  Swedish man released from incarceration after 13 years when witness provides conflicting testimony to podcast

  • Tristan Greene

• These wireless "computers for your ears" are the real future of AR

  The future or AR is not visual, it's sonic, and that's exactly the statement the Here One wireless earbuds made to me when ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• Why Alexa and Siri would make terrible companions

  If Alexa understood your needs and anticipated your decisions, would you love it or would it annoy the crap out of you? Sophia Yeres of Huge, a Brooklyn-based digital marketing agency, presented a talk at SXSW called “The Risks of the Quantified Mind.” She spoke about the future ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Follow these newsletters by journalists and never miss a thing

  These are the must-follow newsletters by news professionals. Follow these and never miss a thing!

  • Veselina Gerova

• Patching up Brazil, one startup at a time

  Brazil is going through a rough phase, but here are three companies Brazilians, and the startup community worldwide, can ...

  • Eliz D'Agostin

• J.K. Rowling casts her spell again

  Hi there. Here's another installation from our series of ‘What TNW is reading'. We're really committed to reading more, ...

  • Eliz D'Agostin

• Rome didn't fall in a day – it didn't fall at all

  By now you are very familiar with our series called ‘What TNW is reading' (I hope). We are really committed to read more ...

  • Eliz D'Agostin

• How to make remote working work

  I recently moved back to Curaçao, a tiny island in the Caribbean where I grew up. Before, I was living in Belo Horizonte, ...

  • Derk Van Lomwel