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Interested in developing voice-activated Skills for Alexa? Here’s what you need to know before you start.

FirstBuild prototypes devices in its lab in Louisville, Ky. Developers are welcome to come in and work on their own ideas for appliances and use FirstBuild’s materials in the lab.

The public is welcome to visit FirstBuild and work on ideas for new appliances. A new product is a home pizza oven that a GE employee developed. The oven began shipping in January 2017 and it’s part of the GE Monogram appliance line.

The state accuses Time Warner of defrauding customers, and if successful the cable company could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.

There are more than 55 billion utterances recognized by Geneva, the Alexa skill that GE Appliances developed to work in conjunction with refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, air conditioners and more.

There’s a lot more to cybersecurity than just systems, firewalls, and passwords. Much of it is people, laws, regulations, and social engineering, and that has led to non-tech workers being perfect fits.

Poker requires a level of abstract thinking that chess and Go don’t, and this learning machine showed it.

Do you use a digital assistant like Siri or Alexa? Have you ever been curious how they work? Find out here … in less than two minutes

The Pepper robot from Softbank uses advanced algorithms to determine the sex and age of people who interact with it, and measures other data such as the length of interaction time.

At the National Retail Federation show in New York, Pepper demonstrated some of the features that could be useful in a brick-and-mortar store.

At the 2017 North American International Auto Show, Volkswagen’s head of energy talked to TechRepublic about what needs to happen to overcome barriers to bringing electric vehicles on the road.

TechRepublic talks to Tim Stevens, Editor in Chief of Roadshow by CNET, about what he saw as the most impressive autonomous technology at NAIAS.