Siri has long been one of the most broken experiences on iOS. Apple didn’t have much to say about improvements to quality, but at WWDC the company did highlight updates to the interface making it easier for users to create their own commands and get proactive updates from Siri. Siri suggestions allows the digital assistant […]
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Siri is telling people it’s getting a major update at WWDC
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Siri’s getting a makeover — at least that’s what the Apple digital assistant strongly hinted at with its responses about the upcoming Apple developer conference.
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC, is next month and if you ask the voice assistant (I refuse to call an AI a gendered pronoun) what to expect, it hints at a software update and new default voice — and what sounds like a new HomePod speakerThe ApplePost appears to have first discovered Siri giving away conference information when asked.
What will Siri sound like?
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Software update for Siri?
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Researchers just proved why it’s so scary that digital assistants are always listening
As if we needed more reasons to be freaked out by increasingly powerful digital assistants, there’s a new nightmare scenario: The music you listen to or conversations you hear on TV could hijack your digital assistant with commands undetectable to hu…
View More Researchers just proved why it’s so scary that digital assistants are always listeningResearchers show Siri and Alexa can be exploited with ‘silent’ commands hidden in songs
Researchers at UC Berkeley have shown they can embed stealthy commands for popular voice assistants inside songs that can prompt platforms like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant to carry out actions without humans getting wise. The research, reported earlier by The New York Times, is a more actionable evolution of something security researchers have been […]
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Siri has some catching up to do.
As the day-one Google I/O keynote came to a close Tuesday in Mountain View View, California, it was clear that the tech giant had left the right impression on the developers in attendance: Specifically, one of awe. Of particular note was the wide range of tasks handled by Google Assistant — tasks that, at present, Apple’s Siri could only dream of (could Siri dream).
Want Google Assistant to make a phone call for you? Perhaps book a haircut appointment by having an actual conversation with a real human? No problem, that feature was demoed today and will be available to users “as an experiment” in the coming weeks. Read more…
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View More Google’s latest assault on Apple proves how far behind Siri really isSoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant
As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform, it’s raising another big $100 million round of funding to try to make its Houndify platform a third neutral option compared to Alexa and Google Assistant. While Amazon works to […]
View More SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google AssistantSiri gives an R-rated definition of the word ‘mother’
Welp, Siri might have some explaining to do.
Apple’s notoriously sassy assistant gives a very NSFW answer when you ask it to define the word “mother.”
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View More Why Siri Is So DumbApparently nobody’s buying Apple’s HomePod
Apple’s HomePod smart speaker is not off to a good start.
Despite receiving high praise for its incredible sound from a cadre of tech reviewers (Mashable included), HomePod sales have been really disappointing, Bloomberg reports. HomePod sales are ap…
Apple nabs Google’s top A.I. exec to make Siri smarter
Apple just took a very important step toward improving its AI capabilities.
The company hired Google’s top AI exec, John Giannandrea, to lead Apple’s artificial intelligence strategy, The New York Times reports.
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Major Siri bug exposes all your hidden messages even if your phone is locked
On iOS 11, Apple introduced a new way to protect user privacy by letting you hide the contents of your notifications on your iPhone’s lock screen until you unlock the device with Touch ID or Face ID.
But it turns out there’s a very simple way to read…
Now we know why Siri was so dumb for so long
It’s no secret that Siri is way behind other voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa when it comes to comprehension and total number of skills.
Apple has drastically improved Siri over the years, adding new features and up…