Hey, you don’t have to say that anymore when you talk to Cortana. That’s right, your days of needing a two-word wake word for Microsoft’s artificially intelligent assistant are long behind you. From ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Cortana for Android and iOS in the U.S. and China. Not even two weeks later, though, and the company has disabled the digital assistant’s hands-free feature on ...

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On Nov. 30, Amazon announced that Alexa is heading straight into Microsoft's productivity wheelhouse, with the new Alexa for Business service. A quick look at the already-available Alexa for Business ...

Microsoft doesn’t want its users to have to waste any time in getting the attention of its digital assistant Cortana. Microsoft dropped the word “hey” from the voice command that wakes up Cortana on ...

Microsoft is making it easier to invoke Cortana on...the Invoke. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a small, but significant, ...

An Israeli professor’s challenge to his students led to the recent discovery of security flaws in Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant that allows attackers to take over a locked Windows machine and ...

The Invoke is a pretty good speaker, but it’s too early to bet that Cortana will come out on top against the digital assistants Amazon and Google are offering. Harman Kardon’s Invoke is a pretty good ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is altering the way you activate its Cortana digital assistant with your ...

Cortana may not be the personal assistant she once was, but a new update as part of the Windows Insider Dev Channel means that her capabilities to find files have improved. The new “File Skill” in the ...

Microsoft today announced that its Cortana personal digital assistant can make instant translations in nearly 40 languages in Windows 10 in the U.S. and China. The capability to translate words and ...