Siri, the voice recognition technology on Apple's new iPhone 4S, has attracted buyers by the millions with its ability to handle complex search queries. Siri's personified as a somewhat sassy female personal assistant, but at least one person finds her downright disturbing: Google Chairman Eric Schm...
With a sexy splash page -- a young woman in short shorts waving her arms before a TV screen -- PrimeSense and hardware maker Asus are inviting consumers to connect with kinetics through Wavi Xtion, a three-dimensional technology that couples cameras, motion sensors, and televisions with personal com...
YouTube on Thursday opened its previously restricted automated captioning beta program to the public, saying it will help the hearing-impaired. Currently, the feature is only available for videos that contain speech in the English language, although YouTube plans to add other languages. In the inter...
Adobe's next generation of Creative Suite graphic design, Web development and video editing applications are edging closer to official release. The company's Adobe Labs site has posted publicly available betas of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. Dreamweaver is Adobe's application for Web desig...
Laying the groundwork for their continued business health, Intel and Microsoft have coughed up $20 million to fund research into desktop and mobile parallel computing for consumers and businesses. The money, to be paid out over the next five years, will be split evenly between new research centers a...
There's been a bioterrorism attack in Chicago. You must find a way to administer medicine to roughly 3 million people in less than 48 hours. You need to set up points of dispensing, create makeshift care facilities, obtain refrigerated trucks and create morgue space -- not to mention handle crowd co...
TomTom unveiled a new top of the line in its GPS product set Thursday featuring the addition of voice recognition. The TomTom GO 920 T global positioning system comes preinstalled with complete maps of Europe, the United States and Canada on 4 GB of internal memory, and it includes new enhanced posi...
Google has launched Google Voice Local Search, an experimental directory assistance service using speech recognition over telephones that allows people to search for local businesses. Callers could dial in from any phone to use the free, voice-activated service, which is available on the experimenta...
Intel and Motion Computing have teamed up to develop and deliver a new tablet PC for the healthcare industry -- the C5 mobile clinical assistant. Based on Intel's new MCA platform, Motion's C5 device is currently in trial use in hospitals and is already gaining enthusiastic interest from the health...
Microsoft has acknowledged a clever person might be able to remotely exploit the voice recognition features of the new Vista operating system to gain access to a PC, but a company representative downplayed the seriousness of the problem. The company's response was posted on the Microsoft Security Re...
Some bloggers amaze me -- not by what they say, but by how much they say. It seems to me sometimes that a lot of these guys must be sitting in front of their keyboard 18 hours a day filling screen after screen with their prose. Maybe the moles of electrons they produce every day is better described...
Apple released its financials last week, and 2006 was a very, very good year for the company. However, its forecast suggests that 2007 may be starting out as one of Apple's worst years this decade. Vista is now within two weeks of launching. I've been using it for some weeks now, and there are some...
Robotics, which has played a longstanding role in industrial applications, has finally entered the classroom in the form of applications for disabled students. It's a trend that could move beyond special needs and into the education mainstream. Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf and hard of...
The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly -- as is the Internet -- and they're creating a mutual feedback loop. This feedback loop is virtuous if you're a consumer of such services, but it's terrifying if you're a supplier in these industries. Telecom is changing the Internet. The Internet...
In a growing digital media market that has witnessed YouTube carve out a niche for viral video, Blinkx is looking to make those videos easier to find online. The firm, which has indexed more than 6 million hours of audio, video and TV programming to make them searchable, announced this week that Mic...
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Apple Goes All-In on a Privacy-Based AI Experience
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Compelling New Headphones From Heavys and Sonos
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Intel Announces New Tech To Battle in AI Market
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Acer Chromebook Plus 516 GE Redefines Gaming Style, Computing Performance
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Bring Your Own AI to Work Creates a Field Day for Cyberattackers
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Brute Force Password Cracking Takes Longer, But Celebration May Be Premature
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Post-Open Licensing Could Offer Software Devs Funding Alternatives
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AI-Powered Robot Aims To Slash Cost of E-Commerce Deliveries
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More Linux Malware Means More Linux Monitoring
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Next-Generation Wi-Fi 7 Standard Expected To Be Finalized in Early 2024
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Cat-Phishing, Living-Off-The-Land, Fake Invoices Top Q1 Cyberthreats: Report
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The Copilot+ PCs Arrive: My Initial Impressions
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SevaCare Blood Pressure Monitor Offers Affordable Home Health Assurance
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For Infineon, AI Is the Key to IoT’s Potential
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat: Step-by-Step Guide
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AI, IoT, Quantum Security Among Top 10 Emerging Technologies: Forrester
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Our Entire Approach to AI Is Flawed
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Mobile Security Firms Fortify Defenses as App Attacks Accelerate
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Balance, Not Mandates, Needed To Keep Kids Safe Online: Report
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Windows 10 End of Life Could Flood Landfills With E-Waste
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Mozilla Waves Red Flag Over Data Hungry Dating Apps
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Beatbot AquaSense Pro: Just in Time for Summer, the Ultimate Robot Pool Cleaner
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AI-Powered Software Offers Breakthrough for Treating Dyslexia
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AI-Enhanced Searches May Pose Threat to Creators, Publishers
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Disorganization, Not Cost, Fuels the IT E-Waste Crisis
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Pundit Predicts Apple AI Will Be Bound to iPhone, Analysts React
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Tech Coalition Launches Initiative To Crackdown on Nomadic Child Predators
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Amazon’s Competitor to Musk’s Starlink Takes Critical Step Toward Deployment
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How To Leverage Gen AI Without Losing the Corporate Shirt
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Apple Muscles Up iPad Pro With M4 Silicon and Tandem OLED Display
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How Apple Outperformed Google and Microsoft in AI Rollout
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The Case Against Noncompete Agreements
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Charging Station Software Essential to Sustainable EV Growth
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Vision Pro Revives One-and-Done App Purchases
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Apple Vision Pro Impressions: One Week Later
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‘Women Don’t Play’ Confronts Gender Disparity in the Tech Industry
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