When Tomasz Schafernaker was presenting the weather during a live broadcast on BBC last Thursday and describing snowy conditions in parts of the U.S. Midwest, Siri on his Apple Watch hilariously chimed in to say that there was no snow in the forecast whatsoever.
Microsoft will be discontinuing its Cortana app for iOS and Android in January, at least in select countries. The Verge reports that a new support article has appeared on Microsoft's UK, Canada, and Australia's web site instances notifying users of the pending change.
Walmart has announced a new partnership with Apple that will see ordering things from the retailer a lot easier, if you like using Siri that is.
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Researchers in Japan and the United States announced they'd found a way to hijack voice assistants including Google Home, Amazon Alexa and Siri using lasers and other focused beams of light, according to a report in the New York Times.
Apple yesterday released the iOS 13.2 software update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With it came a new computational photography feature for the latest iPhone 11 devices, dubbed Deep Fusion, in addition to Announce Messages With Siri that was originally supposed to arrive as part of the initial iOS 13.0 update, plus a whole bunch of other important changes.
Apple made some important changes with iOS 13, one of the biggest being allowing third-party music streaming apps to work directly with Siri.
iOS 13 has a lot going for it, as far as features are concerned. One of them is making Siri a bit more friendly with third-party apps. And Google Voice is ready to take full advantage of that change.
Earlier this year it was reported that Apple brought on contractors to listen to Siri recordings, all in an effort to improve the overall quality of Siri and the digital assistant's accuracy.
Following weeks of testing, Spotify's new media playback options trough the Siri voice assistant are now available to everyone. In addition, Spotify now includes a dedicated app for the Apple TV set-top box, as mentioned in the release notes of the latest version of the app.
Earlier this year, Apple announced a new feature called "Announce Messages with Siri", and said it would arrive with iOS 13.