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A report has found newer digital assistants including Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana are gaining market share at the expense of established services. Despite releasing several new features this year, Apple's Siri is facing declining engagement.
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After months of rumours, Apple has officially launched its own smart speaker with Siri built in. Called HomePod, the company has sought to create a fully-fledged rival to Amazon's Echo and the Google Home. It's designed to work with Apple Music.
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Google has announced a bevy of new features coming to its Google Assistant AI. Besides new voice commands and more third-party integrations, the company is launching Assistant on Apple's iOS, stepping up the fight against Siri.
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A man who was badly injured in an explosion is crediting the iPhone app Siri for saving his life. His hands were too badly burned to be able to dial 911 for assistance.
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Apple could unveil its own smart speaker built to rival Amazon's Echo and Google's Home as early as this June. The company is reportedly close to finalising the device's design ahead of a public reveal at its WWDC developers event in early summer.
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One of the creators of the Siri digital assistant owned by Apple has said he believes AI will one day be used to upload and replay personal memories. An artificial intelligence could index and store all of our experiences, extending and enhancing memory.
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Apple could expand Siri with new intelligent features in this year's iOS 11 update, according to a report today. The company is planning to add iMessage integration for the first time, letting Siri help you write texts by offering predictive suggestions.
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London police released the audio tape of a four-year-old boy telling an emergency operator his mother was dead. The boy managed to unlock his mother’s iPhone and told Siri he needed help. Help arrived and the unconscious woman was revived.
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Users of Siri looking for escorts in Toronto are being directed to a downtown sports bar. One of the bar’s co-owners says the bar has nothing to do with prostitution and wondered why he was getting so many calls. Now he knows.
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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is planning to release a rival to Apple's Siri by launching its own voice assistant. The company has assigned over one hundred engineers to the major development effort, described as "extensive" by insider sources.
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Apple is planning to unify its cloud services under a single platform dubbed "Pie," according to a report today. It also hopes to speed up product development and create more links between products by tying teams together in one division.
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Confirming previous rumours, Apple has rebranded its Mac OS X desktop operating system macOS. The first release of the renamed platform includes several notable new features for Mac users, including the arrival of Siri on desktop systems.
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Apple has announced iOS 10, the latest version of its iPhone and iPad software. The free update will launch in the fall and includes a heavily upgraded Siri, improvements to the lock screen and notifications and a refreshed suite of preinstalled apps.
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A survey of American iPhone users has found that over 98 percent of all owners have tried out Siri, Apple's preinstalled digital assistant. Of that figure, just 3 percent have done so in public though, with the overwhelming majority too embarrassed.
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The creators of Siri, Apple's digital assistant for the iPhone, have unveiled a new artificial intelligence. Known as Viv, the AI is smarter than Siri and aims to redefine the limits of human-computer interaction, connecting "everything" together.
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A flaw has been discovered in iOS 9 that could give an attacker access to an iPhone without needing the user's PIN or fingerprint. As with other similar issues, the attack exploits Siri voice commands to expose user data including photos and contacts.
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Google Now can take orders from hackers across the room. Not only can this be done with Google Now, but hackers can do the same thing with Siri.
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Google revolutionized the way we use the Internet, and the largest search engine company in the world is preparing to do the same thing again for mobile users.
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Siri interrupted a press conference at the White House earlier today by unexpectedly bursting into a questioning session and saying "I'm not sure what you want me to change." The incident, captured on video, completely destroyed the formal atmosphere.
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Apple has today unveiled its reworked Apple TV with an all-new user experience and the ability to run its own apps. Apple announced it is seeking to change the future of television by moving people towards watching content over the Internet.
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Facebook has announced its own virtual assistant to rival Siri, Cortana and Google Now. 'M' will live inside Messenger and is supervised and enhanced by real people, giving it a unique advantage over its all-digital competitors.
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News of a bug in Apple's digital assistant, Siri, has been circulating online recently. Asking Siri to charge your iPhone leads to a call to the emergency services in what is presumably an unintended quirk.
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Apple has formally announced iOS 9 at its WWDC developer's conference today. Siri has been updated to become much more useful and search functionality has been made much deeper alongside improvements to several core apps and the expansion of Apple Pay.
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In a video uploaded to the Windows YouTube channel today, Microsoft has announced its digital voice assistant Cortana, already known by Windows Phone fans, will be coming to Android, iOS and PC with the launch of Windows 10 this summer.
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Microsoft is going to bring its Cortana voice-controlled digital assistant in an enhanced form to iPhones and Android devices later this year after the launch of Windows 10, directly competing with Siri and Google Now already included on the platforms.
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Almost a year after announcing its in-car infotainment operating system, Apple has named the system CarPlay and announced at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show that it has partnered with select car manufacturers to bring the system to market in 2014.
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Siri, Apple's voice-controlled interactive digital assistant, is a handy device. Every day Siri receives tons of inquiries from Apple mobile users. Privacy advocates are concerned about how long that data is kept.
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Apple's Siri is getting a Japanese anime makeover as "she" has been made into an honorary vocaloid for a concept album called "Tell Me Siri-Tan."
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Google is finally giving Apple a run for their money. Although Siri may have dominated voice navigation in the mobile market, Google is tapping into the TV industry allowing viewers to quickly find shows without the hand cramps and numb thumbs.
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An Apple blog claims to have seen the first images of the Apple HDTV, a TV set developed by the tech company that will reportedly include Siri voice controls and a built-in iSight camera.
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Santa uses Siri in an Apple ad Courtesy Apple
The iPhone 4S devices from Apple Courtesy Apple
Dag Kittlaus demonstrating Viv at TechCrunch Disrupt NY TechCrunch
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