Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana, coming soon to Windows Phone, falls under US government child protection laws and can't be used by anyone under the age of 13. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and ...

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung all have virtual assistant software that you can interact with by voice. While there’s a lot of overlap in features, there are some things you may be able to do ...

Did Amazon and Microsoft just become best friends? Yep — at least when it comes to their digital assistants. The two Seattle-based tech giants announced on Wednesday that Microsoft’s Cortana and ...

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I'm going to reserve judgement on what I've seen in the demo so far until we get some code to play with, but seeing how deeply Microsoft has embedded Cortana into Windows 10 has certainly caused me to ...

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Amazon and Microsoft are teaming up to get their virtual assistants to talk to each other. The surprising partnership will mean Alexa and Cortana, the two voice-activated AI assistants from the ...

Under 13? Cortana won't talk to you. Not yet anyway. Cortana, the voice-activated personal assistant on Windows Phone — named for Master Chief's AI companion in the Halo series — will not speak to ...

Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa digital assistants can now talk to each other. The collaboration between the two assistants was announced last year and was originally due to become available by ...

The future of conversational AI is not a league of anthropomorphic voice assistants that we address by name to handle our problems. We will not unlock our iPhones and ask for Alexa when we need to dim ...

Both companies have reach in areas the other does not; Microsoft says that there are some 145 million monthly active Cortana users on Windows 10 PCs, while Amazon has found success selling its Echo ...

Windows Phone is basically dead, but that hasn't kept Microsoft's excellent voice assistant Cortana from finding a home on mobile. Cortana has been available on iOS and Android for a while now, and ...