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Apple teams with car makers to roll out hands-free iPhone controls
Apple has teamed with car manufacturers to let drivers use their iPhones to make calls, access music, get directions and send and receive messages with a touch or a voice command using the car’s...
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WWDC: Apple improves Siri, adds iPad multitasking in iOS 9
Apple is refreshing its mobile devices with a new update to iOS that was shown off at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant, now lets users set...
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Siri for Mac reportedly coming this autumn
Apple put Siri, its voice-activated personal assistant, in the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, but not the Mac – possibly because OS X already has a dictation feature. That’s about to change...
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Are bots the new apps?
At Build last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out a vision for bots, putting them in the middle of interactions between humans and machines. Cortana will become more than a personal assistant for...
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HubSpot and bots
This week we meet with HubSpot EMEA managing director Christian Kinnear to talk about the company’s expansion plans for Dublin. Also, how bots can change the world and why we shouldn’t get too excited...
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Apple to pay $24.9m to settle Siri patent lawsuit
Apple has agreed to pay $24.9 million to a patent holding company to resolve a five-year-old lawsuit accusing Siri of infringing one of its patents. Apple will pay the money to Marathon Patent Group,...
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Siri sibling Viv may be next step in AI evolution
With the creators of Siri offering up a new personal assistant that won’t just tell you what pizza is but can order one for you, artificial intelligence is showing a huge leap forward.Viv is an...
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Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2016
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday was jam-packed with announcements, from all the features coming in iOS 10 to a new iPad coding app for kids. Here’s everything you need to...
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Apple Maps is the reason the iOS public beta exists
Apple is famous for its secrecy, but keeping its products under wraps has some downsides – most notably the Apple Maps debacle of 2012. The company tested Maps internally in Cupertino, but didn’t...
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Virtual assistants, chatbots poised for mass adoption – Gartner
Advances in various technologies will drive users to interact with smartphones in more intuitive ways, with traditional vendor battlegrounds set to shift in the year ahead. According to Gartner...
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ConverCon’s Paul Sweeney on why CX is the new UX
This week Niall goes to the Science Gallery for the first ConverCon and meets with organiser Paul Sweeney to talk about how websites will start acting more like digital assistants. Back in the studio...
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Apple’s screenless Siri Speaker is now in production and could debut at WWDC
By the end of the year, Apple will have a Siri Speaker to compete against Amazon Echo and Google Home.According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple has started overseas production of its Siri-enabled...
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Apple shows off HomePod Siri speaker
Apple has announced its long-rumored answer to the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Dubbed the HomePod, it’s a Siri-powered speaker that will try to outshine its competitors in terms of audio quality....
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Apple dumps Microsoft for Google in Siri and Spotlight search results
Siri can finally Google itself. In a change that’s surprising only because it took this long, Apple has announced it will be switching from Bing to Google results when handling Siri and Spotlight Web...
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Digital personal assistants pt.1: Meet Adele
Siri, Cortana, Alexa and Google Assistant become part of how we use connected devices. In the first of a two-part look at digital personal assistants we talk to Vincent Wade, Director of the Adapt...
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Digital personal assistants pt.2: Under the hood
This week we continue our deep dive into the world of digital personal assistants with a look at the natural language processing, machine learning and the user experience technologies holding them all...
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Apple hiring Google’s AI chief is a huge test for Siri’s privacy stance
In a surprise development that is sure to have huge implications across the AI landscape, Apple announced yesterday that it has hired John Giannandrea, the architect behind Google Assistant, mere hours...
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How to keep Amazon, Apple, and Google from listening to your Alexa, Siri, and...
Yes, your Amazon Echo and Google Home devices are listening to you, and it turns out that the smart speakers can record what you say and share those recordings with Amazon and Google employees. The...
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Apple apologises for ‘grading’ programme that let contractors listen in on...
Nearly a month ago, a report in The Guardian exposed the fact that third party contractors had been listening in on a small percentage of Siri requests as part of a ‘Siri grading’ programme. Apple...
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Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant may soon speak the same language
As anyone who has tried to build a smart home can attest, getting all your speakers and devices to work together is no easy task. A new alliance spearheaded by Amazon, Apple, and Google hopes to fix...
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