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...
Google Beats Amazon in Digital Assistant Shipments: Report Nick Kolakowski, May 24, 2018 2 min read Although Amazon is widely viewed as the dominant vendor of “smart speakers,” Google has made great strides in the...
Siri Might Just Be Smarter Than Alexa: Report Nate Swanner, January 11, 2018 4 min read While digital artificial intelligence (A.I.) assistants are still (mostly) dumb, new research shows that Siri has...
More Americans Embracing Voice-Activated Digital Assistants Nick Kolakowski, January 2, 2018 2 min read New data from the Pew Research Center suggests that 46 percent of U.S. adults rely on voice-controlled digital...
Samsung Bixby Delay Underscores A.I. Problems Nate Swanner, July 6, 2017 3 min read Samsung Bixby Wondering where Samsung’s Bixby is? The digital assistant is still limited to Korea, and a...
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....
Facebook Still Paving a Clumsy Path for Bots Nate Swanner, April 24, 2017 5 min read Facebook Messenger Bots Facebook is still saying bots are the next big thing. A year after debuting bots for...
Samsung Bixby: Do We Need Another Assistant? Nate Swanner, March 31, 2017 8 min read Samsung Bixby If Samsung has its way, you’ll be using ‘Bixby’ on your new phone later this month. In...
Why Facebook’s M Might Scare App Devs Nick Kolakowski, August 27, 2015 2 min read Apple and Google are longtime players in the digital-assistant game. Now Facebook wants to play, too: M, a personal...
Amazon Wants You to Build for Its Digital Hub Nick Kolakowski, June 26, 2015 2 min read Tech giants have spent the past few years pushing aggressively into the digital-assistant realm. Apple has Siri;...
