Weekend Roundup: A Lot of Alexa, Augmented Reality, App Store Subscriptions Nate Swanner, September 27, 2019 7 min read Welcome to your weekend, the best two days of your entire week. Now is when you get to forget the tedium of meetings...
Developers Split on Digital Assistants Like Siri & Alexa Nate Swanner, May 15, 2019 4 min read Digital assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are taking over our day-to-day existence. At just about...
Survey: Do You Even Want to Develop Apps for Voice-First Digital Assistants? Nate Swanner, March 22, 2019 4 min read Digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri are fairly ubiquitous in 2019. Even Google’s unnamed...
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...