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Microsoft To Finally Kill off Cortana
I’d completely forgotten that Cortana, Microsoft’s voice assistant, even existed so the news that Cortana will be shutting down caught me off guard as I’d have assumed it would have happened ages ago. Cortana To Be Shut Down As reported by windowslatest, the Cortana app recently received an update which…
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Microsoft is Reportedly the Latest Victim of the Nvidia Hacking Group
If you’ve been paying attention to the tech news over the last month, you’re probably aware that both Nvidia and Samsung have recently been subjected to a pretty significant data breach. For those of you not in the know, however, it can be summed up pretty quickly. A hacking group,…
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Microsoft’s Cortana CPU Bug Fix Has Caused More Problems!
Earlier this month we reported how an optional update to Windows 10 was causing more than a few problems with CPU usage. The update (KB4512941) would (for reasons still unclear) devote an entire core of your CPU purely to the operation of Cortana. As such, at the time we strongly…
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Windows 10 Update Fixes Cortana High CPU Usage Bug
Windows 10 is an operating system that even 4 years on from its release still divides opinion. I mean, in figures alone it has only just gained over a 50% market share. Remember as well, for around 6 months Microsoft was giving users the option to upgrade to this for…
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Keychron K1 Ultra Slim Mech Keyboard Now Available
Wireless Ultra-Slim Keyboard for Productivity Keychron initially announced their K1 ultra slim mechanical keyboard series via Kickstarter back in October. Now they are finally offering it directly through their website. Users will be able to choose between an 87-key (tenkeyless) and a 104-key (full ANSI) layout. The full ANSI version…
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Study Finds People Repress Their Accents With Voice Assistants
Study Finds People Repress Their Accents With Voice Assistants Having recently purchased an Amazon Echo Dot for my home, for the first time in my life it dawned on me that this specific branch of technology was much further ahead than I was prepared for. Like a pensioner using Ceefax,…
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Windows 10 Adds Home Smart Device Support
Microsoft is slowly repositioning its Cortana personal assistant as a home management service. To that end, Windows 10 users are now able to command home smart devices through Cortana’s new Connected Home console. As a result, Windows users can control smart heating, lighting, and home security from their PC or…
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Microsoft Unveils GLAS Smart Thermostat with Cortana Assistant
After demonstrating their Cortana virtual assistant for cars and home last May, Microsoft is now unveiling GLAS. GLAS is a smart thermostat that rivals Nest and Honeywell’s Lyric. The unveiling comes through a minute-long YouTube video, showing an elegant wall-mounted touch-screen device. It has a semi-transparent screen and although larger…
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Samsung Launches “Intelligent” Bixby Virtual Assistant
Samsung has officially unveiled its Bixby virtual assistant, an “intelligent interface” which, unlike the likes of Siri, Cortana, or Alexa, uses AI to problem-solve, rather than just fulfil voice requests, according to the South Korean company. Bixby is based on Viv, which was developed by Siri creator Dag Kittlaus. Samsung…
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Cortana Can’t Be Disabled After Anniversary Update
Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to Siri, the very voice-based assistant that has helped iPhone users around the world. With its integration into Windows 10, many users have become cautious about its use of search data and how much it may be “learning” about its users. Now users may want to…
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Guess How Much Windows 10 Will Be After July 29th
For a long time now, Microsoft have offered an upgrade to the new Windows 10 operating system free of charge to any users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. After the first anniversary of Window’s 10’s release on July 29th, all upgrades to the latest version of Windows will cease…
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Cortana Search Box Will Now Only Use Bing and Edge
In recent years, Microsoft has been less than subtle with the ways they push their products onto people. From the auto installation of windows 10 components to the annoying little popup reminding you to constantly update to the new OS. The next step would seem to affect those who actually use Windows…
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Microsoft Brings Android Notifications to Windows 10
At Build 2016, Microsoft has announced quite a few interesting new features for Windows 10, one of which is related to Android notifications. That’s right, it looks like Microsoft is making an effort to bring Android and Windows 10 together by allowing users to receive Android notifications on Windows 10 PCs.…
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Microsoft Populates Skype With Helper-Bots
Your Skype chats could just get a little bit smarter thanks to Microsoft’s new array of assistive helper-bots. These bots were on show at Build 2016, where Microsoft demonstrated how Cortana, as well as a number of third-party ‘bots’ were able to inject information and optional actions into Skype messaging…
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Windows 10 Desktops Will Soon Be Able to Talk to Mobiles
Microsoft wants to provide a complete and unified infrastructure with Windows 10 and the newest feature in this area is being tested with internal builds at the moment. The new feature is naturally for Cortana and just that feature will soon be able to send texts from your desktop and…
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