How to Make Siri Write Your Emails

How to Make Siri Write Your Emails

One of the more convenient skills Apple’s virtual assistant gained with iOS 7 is the ability to read emails and iMessages to you. She’ll even let you dictate responses and send them back.

    



A Brief History of Speech Recognition’s Glorious Retrofuture

A Brief History of Speech Recognition's Glorious Retrofuture

In the two decades following World War II, it seemed there was no limit to technological growth. Sure, a computer was still the size of an entire room, and no one had telephones in their pockets. But techno-utopian ideas like flying cars and jetpacks and meal pills were all being taken very seriously as the inevitable fruits of science’s labor.

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Talking To Your Mac: The Coolest Feature of Mountain Lion, and the Future of Computers [Video]

Mountain Lion, the next big software cat for your Mac, has a gazillion new features. Too many to name, and frankly, to care about. But there’s one you should pay attention to, because it might change all of computing. More »