Looks like Siri might be getting an upgrade after Apple bought Cue, an app that makes personalized agendas based on scanning emails. TechCrunch’s sources say that the purchase price was somewhere between $40 and $60 million, and that Apple plans to keep the company running. In other words, watch out Google Now. [TechCrunch]
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Google‘s search app for Android now starts a new voice search when you say the hotword “OK Google” instead of just “Google”. Additionally, the new hotword also starts a fresh search while the app is displaying results from the previous search. This change comes bundled with the latest (2.8.7) update and activates when you manually […]
Google quietly switched on a new search algorithm, Hummingbird, a month ago the company has revealed, impacting an estimated 90-percent of searches by improving how the engine handles complex queries. Revealed at an event earlier today, held at the house Sergey Brin and Larry Page first used while setting up Google almost fifteen years ago, […]
Today, 15 years after Google launched, the company’s SVP of Search Amit Singhal let us know where the search giant is heading. Not surprisingly, the primary focus is the engine’s ability to understand what you want, however you say it.
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This week the teams behind several of Google’s key apps for Android have ushered in updates that tie the family together closer, ushering in an environment ripe for a new operating system iteration. That new version is, of course, Android 4.4 KitKat, and considering Google has been ushering in the press on the subject so […]
Microsoft is next in line to build a mobile personal assistant, one that’s more than more than a robotic voice that obeys spoken commands. The feature will tie together all Microsoft products. So it’s probably appropriate that it’ll be named Cortana after the artificially intelligent character in Halo.
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Google Now, Android’s one-stop shop for anticipating your daily information needs, just learned a few new tricks. In addition to hotel reservations and boarding pass cards, Google Now will serve up cards for car rentals, concert tickets, and NCAA football …
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Missing the last ride home is one of the most profound bummers you can experience. Thanks to Google, getting left behind could become a thing of the past. And that’s just one of the new tricks tucked into the Google Now update that should be hitting your phone imminently.
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Google Now has been one of the company’s most focused-on products in recent months, and they just updated the service today with new capabilities and added cards. Google Now users will be able to keep track of car rental information and concert ticket info as well. Plus, they’ve added improved public transits cards for your […]
One of the most engaging bits of technology unveiled this year with the Motorola-made Moto X was Touchless Control, allowing users to say, “OK Google Now” to begin a query with the device. This service is always listening for the voice of the person with which it’s tied, and can be activated even when the […]
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