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Big Tech’s trend of the week is the incessant talk about AI subscriptions. Silicon Valley cannot stop throwing money into AI, but they’re a bit stuck figuring out how AI will throw money back at them. Now, Big Tech thinks it found a solution: they’re betting you will pay a monthly subscription for their AI service.…

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Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if it’s all that great. AI is the hot trend right now, but Big Tech wants you to pay for something that hasn’t really been shown to make your life easier.

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Laura Labovich, background, and her children Asher, right, 13, and Emerson, left, 10, with the family
Laura Labovich, background, and her children Asher, right, 13, and Emerson, left, 10, with an Alexa speaker in Bethesda, MD.
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More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure.

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Kohler's new E930 smart toilet seat.
Kohler has a new smart toilet seat that can be paired with digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa or Google Home.
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CES is about more than just the gadgets you hold in your hand or sit at the desk to use. It’s about the stuff in your bathroom, too, which is why Kohler is using the annual trade show to debut its latest in connected fixtures. The new items include a new shower sprayer, a ventilation fan that helps with humidity after…

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I want to love Siri. I really do. Every day, I walk around with a little robot that lives in my pocket and responds to simple commands. It is a full-blown miracle, the kind of thing our ancestors could only dream of. The problem is Siri’s an idiot. My digital assistant and others like it from Google and Amazon are…

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