Many smartphone users are regularly searching for information through voice commands with virtual assistants such as Google Now, Siri, Cortana and Alexa. New research looked at how often US smartphone users are employing smartphone virtual assistants, why and when they’re using them, which services they’re using and what they’re commonly searching for. A January 2017 […]

If you prefer using Outlook as your calendar app, whether for work or for personal reasons, then you may have been a bit peeved that Alexa, Amazon’s digital voice assistant for its various devices like Echo, Tap, and Echo Dot, wouldn’t let you add it as the default calendar app. But now, they are rectifying

Hacking into smart homes may be easier than you thought. (Photo: KARE 11) GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – A “Smart Home” is designed to make things easier for people. They’re filled with internet-connected devices that can do a lot of cool stuff, like open the doors or turn up the temperature in the house remotely. And

While Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon), and Google Assistant (well, Google) are still waging battle over which digital voice assistant is the best, the other OEMs are actually thinking of developing their own, instead of just adapting these existing ones to their device. Samsung is reportedly in the final stages of their own product and now

Amazon An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone is seen mid-flight. Prime Air, a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently being developed by Amazon, could potentially deliver packages by using parachutes and dropping them on customers’ doorsteps or backyards, according to a patent filed by the popular e-commerce company. According to CNN, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

If you own a VIZIO television- it may have been keeping an eye on what you were watching- down to the second. VIZIO agreed to pay $2 million in a settlement, after the FTC and the state of New Jersey accused the company of installing software on 11 million televisions which logged what viewers were

by Todd Haselton | February 16, 2017 As of today, Google Home allows you to shop via voice. The execution is really similar to Amazon Alexa, though you’ll be shopping directly through retailers instead of buying goods from Amazon. It also only supports household basic food items and household goods for now, like soaps, paper towels