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Tag: Siri
AirPods 3 waterproof, more expensive, fall release
These AirPods [are] expected to have some design enhancements and will be waterproof with higher price points…
One day you’ll wear your Mac like sunglasses
What happens if your AirPods become your primary connection with all your computing devices?…
After fixing the iOS volume HUD, Apple may fix another annoying iOS/iPadOS quirk
Apple finally fixed the volume indicator in iOS 13…
U.N. report on gendered technology calls Apple’s Siri sexist
Popular digital assistants that reply in a woman’s voice and are styled as female helpers are reinforcing sexist stereotypes…
Apple marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day with featured apps, new Siri Shortcuts
With last fall’s release of iOS 12, Apple introduced Siri Shortcuts…
Are we headed for a Mac automation schism?
The Mac is currently at the start of a pretty dramatic transition…
Super Micro ditching ‘made-in-China’ parts despite no evidence of Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip claims
Super Micro Computer, the California-based server maker at the heart of spy chip allegations last autumn…
Apple’s Siri could soon talk in a whisper
Apple wants Siri, its personal digital assistant, to be able to respond to your input with a whisper…
How to stop Siri’s voice from reverting to robotic on iOS
You’ll never appreciate just how good Siri’s voice is today unless you hit this problem…
Apple’s AirPower is dead. What’s next?
It’s only early April and it’s already been a tough year for Apple….
Apple hires top Artificial Intelligence expert Ian Goodfellow from Google
Ian Goodfellow, one of the top minds in artificial intelligence at Google, has joined Apple…
Amazon preps rival to Apple’s AirPods as its first Alexa wearable
Amazon.com Inc. is trying a new way to take its Alexa digital assistant mobile…
IDC: Apple expected to gain traction in smart home market
The global market for smart home devices is expected to grow 26.9% year over year in 2019 to 832.7 million shipments…
IDC: Lighting, security cameras to drive smart home device sales
Sales of smart home devices will surge this year thanks to the hot categories of home monitoring and security…
Apple acquires Laserlike machine learning startup
Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based machine learning startup…
Check out these 150 custom shortcuts for Apple’s Shortcuts App
After several months of work, I’m pleased to announce the MacStories Shortcuts Archive…
Apple’s Siri Shortcuts may just be misunderstood
Siri is paying attention to your habits and busily creating shortcuts in the background…
Apple’s Siri Shortcuts help boost health and fitness routines
Starting and maintaining health and fitness routines gets even easier as more apps offer Siri Shortcuts
Apple uses Siri Shortcuts to catch up to Alexa, Google Assistant
While Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant got busy over the past few years creating oodles of new skills and capabilities, Apple’s Siri seemed to be asleep…
Apple Music may be coming to Google Home devices
Apple Music may be soon be available as an option on Google Home devices…
Apple’s HomePod sold 1.6 million units last holiday quarter
Apple’s HomePod smart speaker experienced 45 percent growth in the holiday quarter…
Apple hires ex-Microsoft exec to revamp smart home business
Sam Jadallah, the former CEO of a smart lock company that shut down just over a year ago…
Apple buys voice app startup PullString
This could help Siri better compete with Amazon’s Alexa…
Apple stealthily updates British and Australian Siri voices on HomePod
The British (Male and Female) and Australian (Male and Female) speaking voices for Siri…
Apple’s AirPods quickly went from initial mockery to millennial status symbol
Of all the widely ridiculed tech products, Apple’s AirPods have experienced an extraordinary turnaround…
Head of Apple’s Siri team apparently has been reassigned
Bill Stasior, who was lured from Amazon in 2012 to lead Siri is no longer heading the voice assistant group…
Boy, 13, arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up a school
An Indiana middle schooler was busted for telling Siri he planned to open fire on a school…
The voice assistant war: What if nobody wins?
One of the clearest developments that came out of 2018, and prominently on display last week….
Tons of new HomeKit gear is landing this year as adoption quickly accelerates
HomeKit adoption is quickly accelerating, with an unprecedented number of accessories…
Apple’s HomePod launches in China and Hong Kong on Friday, January 18th
HomePod delivers stunning audio quality wherever it’s placed…
Typical Siri stupidity
I thought Siri was smarter than this, but…
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…
Big insights Apple CEO Tim Cook shared this week
Apple’s revenue for wearables is already more than 50% more than iPod was at its peak…