While Apple's Siri has been an iOS staple since 2011, the tech has yet to make the jump to OS X. An exhaustive new patent filing, however, details a very similar desktop version of the virtual ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

The core advantage of combining these two technologies lies in their ability to break spatial limitations, provide highly ...

, creating a seismic shift in how healthcare operates. As someone who has worked with virtual assistants for years, I’ve witnessed firsthand how this transformation has opened extraordinary ...

Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant execs discuss what voice-activated contextual artificial intelligence (AI) can do for business, and how the digital assistant landscape is evolving along with AI.

(1) An individual who performs administrative functions for clients. See human virtual assistant. (2) A text-only chat line that provides help with a website. See chatbot. (3) An application that ...

Ally Bank, seeking to deliver a more personal banking experience, has expanded its mobile application to include a virtual assistant with which users can interact via speech or text to transfer funds, ...

Although artificial intelligence is not yet capable of handling a mortgage from start to finish, several lenders are increasingly turning to the technology for a variety of scenarios. Chief among them ...