Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognise human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone and Echo smart speaker, and the Alexa voice software team. Designed to work with a smartphone ...

Bloomberg Voice-recognition company Iflytek Co plunged following news it is on a list of Chinese technology firms that may face restrictions from the US. Iflytek, which says it controls over 70 percent of China’s speech technology market, slid as much as 8.2 percent in Shenzhen after people familiar with the matter said the US is considering curbs on the company, ...

Bloomberg Austrian aerospace supplier FACC AG, spun off from a maker of skis and tennis rackets 30 years ago, is about to reinvent itself again. The manufacturer of composite wing flaps and rudders for Airbus SE and Boeing Co is branching out to build flying taxis for Chinese technology startup EHang Inc, a market Chief Executive Officer Robert Machtlinger says ...