Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Alexa gets around. The voice assistant has been in all types of devices, not just Amazon’s Echo products. You can talk to Alexa in coffeemakers , take it on the road with you, spend the holidays together, and even make it feed your pet . But inside many of those products—at […]
Cortana on an iPhone. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s Cortana app for iOS and Android will soon shut down, the company has announced on a support page. This effectively puts a nail in Cortana’s coffin for consumer use cases, at least as far as competing directly with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa goes. Here’s what the announcement […]