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Image: Google Google today launched a nice new Assistant feature called My Storytime that lets parents simulate reading to their kids when one parent is away from home. A parent will be able to record themselves reading chapters of stories, and the other parent (or babysitter) can ask Google Nest to read those recordings to…

You may think that consumer preference for human over synthetic voices in voice apps is simply an aesthetic concern. Data from the new report What Consumers Want in Voice App Design, suggests it may impact much more than style. Voices.com, Pulse Labs, and Voicebot.ai collaborated to design a study that could dispell some of the…

Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Amazon is reportedly planning a big expansion for its cashierless store format in 2020. According to Bloomberg, the retail giant wants to open both larger supermarkets and smaller pop-up stores as early as the first quarter of 2020, both using the same Amazon Go technology that creates…

Voicebot Research has found that not only do consumers prefer human voices over synthetic in their voice experiences, but the difference is 71.6% more. That is one of the findings in the newly published report What Consumers Want in Voice App Design. From what we can tell, no one has published results from a study…

MIT researchers first showed off its self-assembling “M-Block” robot cubes in 2013 — and this week, they shared a video of what they’re calling M-Blocks 2.0 (via TechCrunch). Like the first version of the blocks, M-Blocks 2.0 move by generating momentum with an internal flywheel, and can climb on and around each other using magnets:…