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Peter Thiel’s latest bets boost Siri clone and cancer therapy
April 17, 2013 1:08 PM
Christina Farr
Today, the Thiel Foundation announced it would grant $350,000 to two of Breakout Labs' teams: Skyphrase and Stealth Biosciences.
Content-recommendation app Trapit grows up, enters formidable world of publishing
April 3, 2013 10:37 AM
Rebecca Grant
Trapit launched its new publisher suite today, the startup's first business-to-business product that publishers and brands can use to create personalized, more engaging reading experiences.
Leveling the (local) playing field: How tech can help merchants compete
Guest Post Let's take a step back and understand the technology tools that can benefit the largest group of people who have been hardest hit by large enterprises and new technologies: the tens of millions of local merchants all over the world.
Talking teddy bears raise $11.5M
November 9, 2012 2:12 PM
Rebecca Grant
ToyTalk has raised $11.5 million for its talking teddybears, created by former Pixar CTO and SRI scientist.
Siri’s sister Desti is a virtual tour guide to answer all your travel queries
November 8, 2012 9:35 PM
Rebecca Grant
Desti uses Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to act as a personal virtual tour guide.
Kuato aims to teach kids programming through games
July 3, 2012 11:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Kuato Studios plans to use artificial intelligence and gaming technology to teach children how to program a computer. As such, it is the latest startup to try to “gamify,” or use game mechanics to foster interest in non-game applications, education.…
Siri co-founder: Steve Jobs didn’t care for the name Siri
March 28, 2012 7:57 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Apple’s Steve Jobs saw the potential in Siri back when it was a standalone application, but when it came to integrating the software into the iPhone as a virtual assistant he was resistant to keeping the name Siri, according to …
Co-founder of voice assistant feature Siri leaves Apple
October 24, 2011 8:49 AM
Tom Cheredar
Co-founder of the impressive iPhone 4S voice control feature Siri, Dag Kittlaus, has left Apple.
Kittlaus is someone who’s likely to go down in Apple’s history as having made a big impact on the company and its products. Siri is …
Dylan’s Desk: Siri is the grandmother of Marvin the Paranoid Android
October 12, 2011 8:00 AM
Dylan Tweney
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on business and technology called Dylan’s Desk, while Dean Takahashi is writing a column on video games called The DeanBeat. They are available to newsletter subscribers a whole day before they appear …
Apple debuts Siri, a voice assistant for iOS
October 4, 2011 11:23 AM
Tom Cheredar
Apple showed off its new voice assistant, Siri, a voice control feature available on its mobile operating system iOS, today at a special press event in Cupertino, Calif.
From what I can tell from the demo, Siri is the equivalent …
iPhone 5′s killer feature: powerful Assistant voice commands
September 26, 2011 1:17 PM
Devindra Hardawar
The coolest feature in Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 may be something unexpected: a smart, voice-operated virtual assistant — simply called Assistant — that sounds like an evolutionary upgrade over the iPhone’s current voice commands.
We’ve been hearing for some time …
Hands on with Microsoft’s slick speech-powered Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 (video)
August 18, 2011 5:28 PM
Matthew Lynley
Microsoft is rolling out a whole host of speech recognition features for its Windows Phone 7 devices and Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 consoles in a move to make the gaming experience more immersive. The new features are part of what the …
