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Backed by Amazon and Paul Allen, KITT.AI launches first ‘hotword detection’ software toolkit

snowboyKITT.AI wants to help developers add voice activation features to almost any device for free.

The Seattle startup today unveiled its first software toolkit called Snowboy, which lets developers add verbal “hotword detection” to devices. It’s the same technology that tech giants like Amazon and Apple use for products like...

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Internal email: Microsoft launches investigation into Xbox ‘schoolgirl’ dancer incident; ‘We are not going to tolerate this,’ says HR chief
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft executive vice president of human resources.
Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft executive vice president of human resources.

Microsoft’s top executives were “embarrassed and appalled” upon seeing photos of female dancers in schoolgirl outfits at a Microsoft Xbox-sponsored event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, the company’s executive vice president of human...

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