As part of Loup Ventures’ ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input, the firm regularly tests the most common digital assistants…
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Apple’s HomeKit was a surprise winner of CES 2019
Without stepping foot in Las Vegas or making a single announcement of its own, Apple is having one of its best CES conferences in years…
Apple’s Siri has gotten a lot more accurate over the past 9 months
We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana…
AI guru John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team…
Amazon unveils 15 new Alexa-enabled products, including a microwave oven
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Apple’s Siri improved by 11 percentage points in correct answers over the last 15 months
As part of our ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input…
Apple, where’s the smarter Siri in iOS 12?
Apple this week had every opportunity to show off new voice skills for Siri…
Five potential game-changers Apple revealed at WWDC
Once a year, the world’s biggest computer company gives us its annual dump of new platform stuff for developers…
Solos smart glasses’ head-up display lets runners, cyclists keep eyes on road
It’s no secret that serious runners, cyclists, and triathletes try to keep close tabs…
Intel to shut down smart glasses and fitness tracker group
Intel has confirmed that it plans to shut down the New Devices Group (NDG), and cease development on…
Apple needs a new personal assistant
While Apple has solid speaker hardware that has been praised for its sound quality, the HomePod is hampered by Siri…
What Apple needs to do to improve Siri
The HomePod is coming Friday, and with it, even more attention is being paid to Siri…
How Apple’s HomePod will handle software updates
As HomePod pre-orders began last week and some first impressions came out…
What Apple’s HomePod 2 should offer
iPhone, Apple TV, iPad, Apple Watch – all of them were super interesting new products that…
One hour with Apple’s new HomePod smart speaker
There’s finally good news for those eagerly awaiting Apple’s take on the smart speaker…
Apple’s iOS 11.3 beta delivers AirPlay 2 with multi-room playback
Apple released the first developer betas of iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3, including new features…
How Apple is positioning the HomePod and why
From the very beginning, Apple has positioned HomePod as a high-quality-sound speaker….
Siri’s podcast-promoting ‘Give me the News’ feature is now out of beta ahead of HomePod release
A few weeks back, Apple added ‘Give me the news’ to Siri’s repertoire of tricks…
Inventec begins initial shipments of Apple’s long-awaited HomePod
Inventec Corp, one of the two assemblers for Apple Inc’s HomePod, has started shipping the US company’s…
Amazon Alexa could make these smart glasses way better than Google Glass
Amazon’s Alexa software has already made its way into just about every Internet-connected device…
Gene Munster ups Siri’s exam grade from ‘D+’ to ‘C’
In our latest 800 question test of AI assistant Siri, she was able to understand…
Alexa is killing Siri at CES 2018, and HomePod, if it ever ships, isn’t going to make a difference
When Siri launched in beta form back in 2011…
Vuzix to debut first Amazon Alexa-enabled smart glasses at CES
The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown…
Apple’s delayed HomePod comes with raised expectations and stiffer competition
Late last year, Apple announced that it would delay the promised release of its HomePod…
Apple product delays have more than doubled under CEO Tim Cook
As Apple Inc.’s longtime chief operating officer, Tim Cook was known for ensuring that new products…
Apple preps Siri for the HomePod, now streams a news podcast when asked for ‘news’
In what is certainly a feature created with the HomePod in mind, Apple has enhanced Siri…
Believe it or not, Apple’s Siri is actually quite good at lots of things, recent data shows
Siri delivered the highest percentage of perfectly completed device responses in both quiet and noisy environments…
Cornell study: Google AI boasts much higher IQ than Apple’s Siri
Compared to Bing and Siri, Google’s artificial intelligent system is a cut above the competition…
Siri, why have you fallen behind other digital assistants?
Apple has a reputation for entering markets late…
Apple ‘acqui-hires’ AI team to work on Siri
Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service…
Why Apple replaced Microsoft’s Bing with Google search for Siri and Spotlight
Apple just worsened Bing’s already pathetic 2% share in mobile search…
Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana to communicate with each other
The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants…
Apple’s future is Siri
The iPhone shows no signs of going away, and it’s possible to imagine that we’ll still be carrying some…
China’s Xiaomi launches a $44 Amazon Echo rival
Xiaomi launched its own smart speaker on Wednesday to rival the likes of the Amazon Echo…
Consumers appear eager to buy Apple’s upcoming HomePod smart speaker
Even though Apple’s HomePod is $170 more than its nearest-in-price competitor…
After seeing Apple’s HomePod, Amazon is working on an Apple HomePod echo
It’s been over two years since Amazon debuted the Echo…
Apple’s Siri is still the top-ranking personal assistant, but active users declined 15% YOY
The report analyzed mobile app usage of U.S. consumers between May 2016 and May 2017…
Amazon Echo has a problem: Apple’s HomePod has major advantage over rivals
Amazon has seen huge success with its Alexa-powered Echo but this clever device…
Apple’s HomePod first impressions: Lots of mystery, impressive sound quality
This week, we learned that Apple’s much-rumored smart speaker is real, and it’s called HomePod…
Amazon exec: Alexa and Siri should be able to communicate with each other
Alexa and Siri, rival voice assistants on Amazon’s Echo and Apple’s iPhone, don’t directly communicate…
Associated Press: New Siri smart speaker expected as Apple kicks off WWDC 2017
Apple appears poised to unveil a voice-activated, internet-connected speaker that would create a new digital pipeline into people’s homes…
Hey Apple, can you top Google, Facebook in Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality?
Apple’s back in a tricky position heading into this year’s developer conference: playing catchup…