LAS VEGAS – Complexity is the enemy of security, but prompt patching is its strongest ally. Security professionals have made those points for years, but two presentations at the Black Hat USA ...

Microsoft’s flagship voice assistant is built-in to Windows 10, yet Cortana hasn’t shared the same success as voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant. But that may change with ...

Microsoft is shutting down its digital assistant app Cortana this month, having now put more of its focus on modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity ...

A beta version of an independent Cortana app has appeared on the Microsoft Store and it could finally allow Microsoft to update digital assistant with new features more frequently. Cortana has always ...

Tech giants are battling to position their smart speakers as the center of the digital home. But Microsoft, which lost the mobile wars to Apple and Google, is trying to ensure that it will have a ...

The tricky Cortana flaw, CVE-2018-8253, was addressed by Microsoft during Patch Tuesday. As voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home gain traction in the smart-home market, they have also been ...

Voice assistants are a great convenience. They make it easier than ever to control all our devices hands-free. A wide choice of assistants has risen over the past few years, including Google Assistant ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft thinks its new store app installer will make more people install and launch Windows apps. Microsoft ...

When you try to install an app from outside the Microsoft Store, you will see a message The app you’re trying to install isn’t a Microsoft-verified app. This post will show you how to turn off ...

Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant is clearly winding down—the feature is still available in the desktop versions of Windows, but it's no longer included in a default install of Windows 11, and the ...

Microsoft has confirmed that they are investigating reports of high CPU usage in the SearchUI.exe component of Cortana after users install the Windows 10 v1903 KB4512941 cumulative update. In a ...