Samsung and Philips are collaborating to focus on innovating healthcare applications. Samsung brings its ARTIK ecosystems of connected devices to the venture.

Google is asking the FCC for some help in moving its Project Soli forward. The sensing technology uses miniature radar to detect touchless interactions.

Amazon’s Alexa is getting smarter. Now the digital voice assistant can remember songs played in the past, so an owner can ask for those songs to be played again with less specific requests.

Volkswagen showed its multi-passenger autonomous concept vehicle to the Geneva Motor Show again. The Cool Bus concept vehicle comes in yellow.

Sony and Eyesight are expected to announce vision technology built into a portable projector, which can show an image on a wall or other surface that can be interacted with.

It still hasn’t released a product, but Magic Leap continues to raise money. The latest round, $461 million from Saudi Arabia, bring the total raised to more than $2 billion.

It looks like Amazon has fixed the random Alexa laughing reported by some consumers. Amazon said it changed the command for Alexa to laugh requested via Amazon Echo devices.

Consumers will be able to interact with Microsoft’s voice agent Cortana with a shorter intro. Rather than saying ‘Hey Cortana’ they now can just say ‘Cortana.’

Walmart is opening another tech research center to focus on innovation for retail. The office in Texas is set to focus on machine learning, data science and computer vision.

Autonomous car crashes appear to be troubling to some motorists who are physically abusing the robotic vehicles involved. This according to accident reports filed.