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…
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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…
Roku in talks with Apple about supporting AirPlay 2, Apple Music
The two companies currently working out details surrounding the partnership…
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…
Developer demos what will be possible with HomeKit-connected AirPlay 2 Smart TVs
Apple surprised announced its new HomeKit and AirPlay Smart TV initiative at CES…
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 deals with Samsung and other TV makers shows Apple TV can’t keep pace with its rivals
Samsung said that its 2019 smart TVs would come with the ability to buy and rent movies…
Apple cracks open the gate to their famous walled garden
In a series of uncharacteristic partnerships with tech rivals…
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…
Apple promotes HomeKit at CES, spotlights new smart home accessories for 2019
Apple recently invited reporters to meet a handful of companies announcing new products…
Hebrew voice of Waze sues Apple for using her voice for Siri
The longtime voice of Waze navigation app in Hebrew is suing Apple for using her voice for Siri…
Amazon has record-breaking holiday season with more items ordered worldwide than ever before
Amazon customers shopped at record levels from a wide selection of products across every department…
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…
Apple Music now available on Amazon Echo speakers via Alexa in the U.S.
Apple Music support on Amazon Echo speakers is starting to roll out in the United States…
Apple shows how to select new tech hub locations with class
One tech giant strung dozens of North American cities through a circus-like contest…
What Apple’s new U.S. job additions tell us about their future product plans
This week, Apple announced that it would be expanding its footprint in several U.S. cities outside the Bay Area…
Tests of Super Micro equipment find no malicious chips in current or older-model motherboards
Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday…
12 Siri tips you’ll wish you’d used before
Everybody likes to learn a few tips that will save them time, so I’ve identified a dozen things…
Bloomberg Businessweek should retract or unequivocally prove their Supermicro spy chip yarn
Apple, Amazon, the government, national security advisors, and independent technology experts alike have all said Bloomberg Businessweek is wrong…
Apple’s Silk Labs purchase pushes artificial intelligence to the edge; Apple could give Siri an offline mode
Apple’s AI push into on-device machine learning continues with news of its acquisition of Silk Labs…
Apple patent application reveals work on offline Siri
Apple wants Siri to be able to work when you don’t have an online connection…
Blind U.S. Navy veteran catches second wave with a surfboard, Apple Watch, and his new iPhone XR
In 2012, Scott Leason received his first iPhone — the iPhone 5 — and training from Sarah T. Majidzadeh, assistant chief of Blind Rehabilitation at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center…
Apple patent reveals Siri will perform more office tasks and even gain ability to multitask
While Siri is now able to perform more on your Mac, a new patent today shows…
Shortcuts offer huge potential for accessibility
Since it was announced at WWDC over the summer, the lion’s share of conversation around shortcuts…
Investigating implausible Bloomberg Businessweek’s Supermicro spy chip yarn
Bloomberg Businessweek needs to retract the story and investigate how this passed editorial muster and was published…
AWS CEO joins Tim Cook in urging Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its Chinese spy chip yarn
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has joined Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips
Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Bloomberg Businessweek should do the right thing and retract its Chinese spy chip story
We turned the company upside down. This did not happen. There’s no truth to this…
Apple’s Siri could recognize voice patterns for user identification in future hardware
One product in which such capability is sorely needed is HomePod…
Apple takes some of its repatriated cash and goes shopping
As we race to the close of the company’s fourth quarter, it seems pretty clear…
NSA security adviser says ‘nobody’s found anything’ on Chinese chips
NSA senior adviser for cybersecurity Rob Joyce tells…
