For the second year running, the Google Assistant outperformed Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri in the number of questions answered and questions answered fully and correctly, ...

Apple and Amazon simply won’t be able to compete with Google’s virtual assistant over the next few years. Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is the best-known out there. Amazon dominates the home ...

NEW YORK— You may already be on a first-name basis with Siri, Cortana, Google or Alexa, the Fab Four of voice-activated digital assistants. Now that relationship is expanding from one device ...

Microsoft and Amazon have just raised the stakes in the battle for voice technology supremacy. The integration of Cortana and Alexa aligns two big-name, widely-used voice assistants from two very big ...

SEATTLE — Voice-controlled digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are good at numerous things. They can help people play music, set up ...

How do we know that Cortana, Alexa, Siri and other assistants don’t already talk to each other, as in they’ve been asked something and are not sure of the answer, so check what information the others ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

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Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri and Alexa were "dumb as a rock." His comments come as excitement around generative AI has reached a fever pitch. Microsoft has poured more ...

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 ...