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Amazon's $1.7 billion deal could put millions of consumers' data at risk and allow the tech giant to knock Roomba's competitors out of the market.

Principal knowledge engineer on Amazon Alexa, Beth Holmes discusses the voice assistant behind more than 100 million devices worldwide, as well as her life as a technologist with autism. Words and portrait by Nick Smith.

The uphill battle to create a British tech titan The Government is desperate for a British Big Tech contender, but experts have warned them not to scare off foreign investment Snap, the parent organisation of Snapchat, recently acquired augmented reality (AR) start-up WaveOptics for $500m Credit: Snap When Snapchats parent Snap announced that it would acquire Oxford augmented reality (AR) start-up WaveOptics for $500m (£352m), investors rejoiced. “It’s an amazing story, especially for UK ...

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) To Provide Drone Hunters With Target Practice In Cambridge, UK Tyler Durden: A year ago, in the latest attempt to distract from his company’s inability to generate profit, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos revealed his latest breathless vision for the latest marketing gimmick future in the form of Amazon Prime Air: a fleet of unmanned delivery drones bringing customers the goods they ordered or, as the case may be, didn’t order. Immediately in the aftermath of this announceme...

Papercup, a London, UK-based artificial intelligence startup has developed pioneering speech technology which translates people’s voices into other languages, secured £8m ($10.5m) in funding. The round was led by LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures, with participation from Sky, GMG Ventures, Entrepreneur First, and BDMI and existing angel investors William Tunstell-Pedoe, the founder of Evi Technologies (acquired by Amazon to create Alexa) and Zoubin Ghahramani, Former Chief Scientist ...

Papercup, the UK startup using AI for realistic-sounding voice translation, raises £8M funding Papercup, the U.K.-based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the video and television industry, has raised £8 million in funding. The round was led by LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures, alongside Sky, GMG Ventures, Entrepreneur First (EF) and BDMI. Papercup says the new capital will be used to invest ...