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Viv isn’t competing with the current lineup of virtual digital assistants. The self-coding software is instead striving to be the “intelligent interface to everything.” Since Apple’s introduction of Siri on Oct. 4, 2011, a handful of tech companies—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook—have introduced competing artificial intelligence-guided digital assistants. But who better to outdo Siri than Siri’s …

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Figlab, which is short for Future Interfaces Group, is a unit within the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interface Institute that has been responsible for some incredible technological breakthroughs. Concepts like your phone being able to tell what angle your finger is touching at and where it’s touching, tech that tells your smartwatch what object you’re …

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Viv might be the creation of those that had also put together Siri though there already is a huge generation gap between the two siblings in the realm of personal digital assistants. That is exactly what Dag Kittlaus stressed on when he went to the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC to demo what the …

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