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Apple Pays $25m to Patent Troll
Apple has paid a “patent troll” $24.9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging infringement over its Siri personal assistant. The payment will be split between the Marathon Patent Group – a business whose stock in trade…
Artificial Intelligence Gets Stroppy With its Programmer
Google, probably the only company not scaremongering over the impending singularity, has had a run-in with one of its own artificial intelligence systems. The AI, whose vocabulary consists purely of content from movie scripts, was responding…
Apple Announces iOS 9
Apple has just announced their next version of iOS called iOS 9 (what a surprise!). With the latest version of the smartphone OS; Apple are focusing on making it a more clever operating system, starting off…
Siri Can Now Play a Helpful Role in Controlling Your Smart Homes
Apple seems to be focusing on making you upgrade your homes as well as your gadgets this year. After it first announced a release date for the first smart home devices, the company is now focusing…
Apple WWDC 2015 Could Bring 12-inch iPads and Dual-App View Mode
We are nearing that time of the year when Apple will unveil its stuff at the annual World Wide Developer Conference. Out of all rumours, the most interesting ones consist of 12-inch iPads, dual-app view mode…
Apple Sharing Siri Voice Data With Third Parties
Apple’s voice recognition personal assistant Siri has been collecting and transmitting user voice data to third-party companies. The news was revealed on reddit by user FallenMyst. FallenMyst, in a post on reddit, said that after she…
Cortana Coming to Android and iOS
As reported by Reuters, Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant, will be available on Android and iOS as a standalone app after the launch of Windows 10 in the fall. With Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella wanting to bring…
How Siri Can Help you Locate The Owner of a Lost Phone
These days, the three major mobile operating systems all ship with their own ‘personal assistants’. Windows Phone has Cortana, Android has ‘Ok Google’, and iOS of course has Siri. The artificial intelligence behind these systems is…
Yahoo and Microsoft Compete to Become Apple’s Default Search Engine
As Google Search’s contract with Apple nears its end, Yahoo and Microsoft are both vying to replace it as Safari’s default search engine. Yahoo have already stepped into the vacant spot Google left at Firefox, becoming…

Apple Defends CarPlay Safety
Apple has defended its CarPlay product, after a University of Utah study suggested that Siri was the most distracting of all speech recognition systems when used in the car. Apple said in a statement to The…
Amazon Announces ‘Echo’ Virtual Assistant & Speaker With Awkward Video
Amazon has announced the ‘Amazon Echo‘ virtual assistant device in an attempt to get into the home automation market. The black tube-like device is designed to sit in a room and be used like the many other…
Rehab Clinics say our Smartphone Dependencies Fuel Other Addictions
Morningside Recovery rehab clinic’s executive director (Joel Edwards) has recently made some comments claiming mobile phone addiction is making some of our bad habits even worse. As we learned, Edwards stated: “The smartphone is the tool…
Stephen Hawking Warns Of An A.I. Controlled Future
Advances in AI technology are all around us, Google have their Google Now service, Apple have Siri, Microsoft have Cortana and that’s just the world of mobile phone technology and search engines! Beyond that we have…
Windows Phone’s ‘Cortana’ Personal Assistant Leaked In Short Video
Previous reports highlight that Microsoft is working on a personal assistant, similar to Apple’s Siri or Google Now, for the Windows Phone platform. Previous reports say that it is codenamed “Cortana” after the advanced AI seen…
Apple And Google To Battle Over Personal Assistants
Smartphone manufacturers have been battling over features, specs and design. But now it seems that the battleground is moving towards the personal assistant area, where Siri and Google Now comes into play. According to a report…