Views: 53Apple is looking to make some noise in the rapidly growing voice-technology field. According to a report in Axios, the company has purchased PullString, a San Francisco startup whose technology has been incorporated into such devices as Google Home and Amazon’s Echo. Founded in 2011 by former Pixar executives, PullString was initially known as […]
Views: 42A four-year-old boy used Siri on his mother’s iPhone to call 999 after she collapsed. Beau Austin from Hook, Pembrokeshire, was on his own with his pregnant mother Jess when she passed out from the side effects of morning sickness medication. He asked Siri to dial 999 and told the operator “my mummy’s sick”, […]
Views: 16“Apple wants Siri to be able to work when you don’t have an online connection. The company has filed for a patent (number 20180330731) for an ‘offline personal assistant’ for an offline mode that wouldn’t require on a backend server to assist with Siri’s functions,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple World Today. “In the […]
Views: 25“‘I’d blush if I could’ is not the response you’d expected to hear when you tell Siri she’s a slut — but it is,” Leah Fessler writes for Quartz at Work. “In February, months before the #MeToo movement erupted, I ran an experiment in which I sexually harassed Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, […]
