Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital-Assistant Wars? Nick Kolakowski, August 19, 2019 3 min read Amazon has Alexa, Google has its voice-activated Assistant, and Apple has Siri. Anxious to compete in the growing...
Survey Results: Alexa, Siri, Google Voice Queries Should Not Be Heard Nate Swanner, August 15, 2019 4 min read Two weeks ago, we asked if you thought voice-activated A.I. queries made via Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or...
Microsoft Takes a Risky Bet on Cortana Roadmap Nick Kolakowski, February 18, 2019 4 min read Microsoft really needs Cortana, its voice-activated digital assistant, to succeed. There’s just one little...
3 Digital Assistants Face an Uphill Fight for Your Living Room Nick Kolakowski, August 17, 2018 6 min read Digital assistants are arguably the hottest segment of consumer technology at the moment, but the pool of competitors...
Which Digital Assistant Will Fail Next Year? Nick Kolakowski, January 5, 2018 4 min read Tech firms (and more than a few independent developers) have embraced voice-activated digital assistants as the way...
No A.I. Assistant Smarter Than a Six-Year-Old: Study Nate Swanner, October 11, 2017 4 min read A.I. assistants are actually pretty dumb. Big tech companies want us all to embrace digital assistants in a big...
Microsoft, Amazon A.I. Alliance May Fix Their Weaknesses Nick Kolakowski, September 5, 2017 3 min read Last week, Microsoft and Amazon announced they would allow Cortana and Alexa, their respective digital assistants,...
Microsoft’s A.I. Efforts are Starting to Feel Smart Nate Swanner, May 12, 2017 6 min read A.I. is key for Microsoft Build 2017 is surfacing a new truth for Microsoft: artificial intelligence (A.I.) is how...
Build: What ‘Intelligent Cloud, Intelligent Edge’ Means Nate Swanner, May 11, 2017 6 min read The Cloud at Build 2017 At this year's Build conference, Microsoft offered some interesting new tools for developers,...
Microsoft Unveils Cortana Speaker Ahead Of Build Nate Swanner, May 9, 2017 3 min read Cortana Invoke The forgotten contender in the digital assistant race is Cortana, Microsoft’s proprietary offering....
