by Surur
10 hours
Despite a major vote of no confidence from their CEO, the Cortana team has continued to work on improving their digital voice assistant. The team has introduced two new features in the Connected Home section of the app – Sce...
by Surur
2 days
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has just raised the white flag on their half-hearted competition with the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant digital voice assistants. “We are very mindful of the categories we enter where we can d...
by Surur
2 days
The Harmon Kardon Invoke Cortana speaker is more or less dead and buried, but according to Microsoft Cortana does not need dedicated hardware in any case, at least not from Microsoft. “On the smart speaker side of things, we’v...
by Surur
4 weeks
Smart speakers and digital assistants have risen rapidly from a curiosity to a staple, and Google has embraced the rising tide better than most, delivering a competitive product to Amazon’s dominant Alexa speakers despite be...
by Surur
4 weeks
Windows Phone 8.1 is no longer supported, and that means even Microsoft is dropping services for the platform, including updates and even Store support. It seems one of those features being dropped is some elements of Cortana, wit...
by Surur
4 weeks
Google’s Home Alone Google Assistant ad featuring Macaulay Culkin has gone somewhat viral. The ad recreates the Home Alone movies, but this time with Google’s Assistant keeping the hero company. The success of the ad p...
by Surur
4 weeks
Loup Ventures have published the results of their semi-annual IQ test of digital assistants/ smart speakers, using a battery of 800 typical questions, and have found the speakers continue to get smarter and smarter. The analysts c...
by Surur
1 month
We reported recently that Microsoft appears to be working to make it possible to replace Cortana with another voice assistant in the next version of Windows 10 19H1, and speculated that these applications would need to have Above ...
by Anmol
1 month
Microsoft recently released a new Windows 10 19H1 update to Windows Insiders and with it came a new feature which was not listed in the official changelog. Earlier today we reported that Microsoft might be testing a new way to all...
by Surur
1 month
Despite Cortana going from a Digital Assistant to a Digital Assistive (which sounds vaguely medical) the scientists and engineers working on her still have a lot of innovation to bring to the table. The latest, as revealed by the ...
by Anmol
2 months
It looks like Microsoft might have a lot to offer in the coming year as the company is working on a couple of new hardware for 2019-20. The details about the new hardware comes from Brad Sams who revealed details about a couple of...