digital assistant

Siri Might Just Be Smarter Than Alexa: Report

Nate Swanner, 

January 11, 2018

While digital artificial intelligence (A.I.) assistants are still (mostly) dumb, new research shows that Siri has improved quite a bit. Comparatively speaking, Apple’s digital assistant is …

More Americans Embracing Voice-Activated Digital Assistants

Nick Kolakowski, 

January 2, 2018

New data from the Pew Research Center suggests that 46 percent of U.S. adults rely on voice-controlled digital assistants. Those interactions mostly take place on a …

Samsung Bixby Delay Underscores A.I. Problems

Nate Swanner, 

July 6, 2017

Wondering where Samsung’s Bixby is? The digital assistant is still limited to Korea, and a spokesperson said its English debut is delayed due to a lack …

Microsoft Unveils Cortana Speaker Ahead Of Build

Nate Swanner, 

May 9, 2017

The forgotten contender in the digital assistant race is Cortana, Microsoft’s proprietary offering. To better compete with Google and Amazon, there’s now a Cortana-laden mini-speaker tower …

Facebook Still Paving a Clumsy Path for Bots

Nate Swanner, 

April 24, 2017

Facebook is still saying bots are the next big thing. A year after debuting bots for Messenger, Facebook again chiseled out some time during its annual …

Samsung Bixby: Do We Need Another Assistant?

Nate Swanner, 

March 31, 2017

If Samsung has its way, you’ll be using ‘Bixby’ on your new phone later this month. In conjunction with the launch of its S8 and S8 Plus …

Why Facebook’s M Might Scare App Devs

Nick Kolakowski, 

August 27, 2015

Apple and Google are longtime players in the digital-assistant game. Now Facebook wants to play, too: M, a personal assistant integrated into its Messenger app, is …

Amazon Wants You to Build for Its Digital Hub

Nick Kolakowski, 

June 26, 2015

Tech giants have spent the past few years pushing aggressively into the digital-assistant realm. Apple has Siri; Google seems intent on getting every Android user to …

Clippy: When the Dev Process Goes Wrong

Dice Staff, 

June 25, 2015

Microsoft’s Clippy has been dead for nearly a decade, but people still love to hate it. How did Microsoft mess up so badly in trying to …

Amazon’s Echo: Trojan Horse for Internet of Things

Nick Kolakowski, 

April 10, 2015

Amazon wants to compete in the burgeoning Internet of Things industry, and the device that will allow it to do so is already on the market. …