smart speaker
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Sorry, Chief, Microsoft Cortana’s Finally Dead
You can now visit the gravestone of Microsoft’s virtual assistant app Cortana in the growing mortuary of failed products. The company ended support for the Bing search-based voice control engine on Windows to help make room for its continuing AI-isation of Bing and its bevy of other digital products and services. We knew this was…
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This Smart Speaker Will Read Stories to Your Kids With a Deepfaked Copy of Your Own Voice
You stop judging all the shortcuts and workarounds that make parenting easier once you actually become one, like Takara Tomy’s new AI-powered smart speaker that can imitate a parent’s voice at bedtime and read those children’s books and fairy tales most parents are sick of reading over and over.
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Leaked Pics Show A Scary-Big Notch On An Alleged Pixel 3
Based on the timing of last year’s Pixel 2 launch, we’re still a solid two months away from confirming whatever Google has planned for 2018. But that isn’t going to stop internet sleuths from trying to dig up any info they can. Over the past few days, two leaks popped up that could have some…