It’s rare to see tech giants consider or even willingly work together, and yet, here we are. Today The New York Times announced Amazon and Microsoft would be joining forces in the digital assistant ...

Microsoft’s Surface event on Wednesday showed all of us yet again that there’s always one more thing to get excited about. The unveiling of its latest Surface ...

Alexa may be the most familiar name in the smart home game, but competitors are slowly but surely improving their own capabilities in hopes of gaining ground. Most recently, Microsoft’s Cortana ...

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. Microsoft is redesigning Xbox Home for the Xbox One by reworking the current user interface in an effort to ...

The key weakness of the Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman/Kardon Invoke smart speaker was that it just wasn’t a great smart-home controller, lacking many of the services and IFTTT support of its rivals ...

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 ...

Microsoft's vision for Cortana goes beyond sitting in a smart speaker on your kitchen counter, with the company showing off some of the ways its assistant could follow you at home and on the road.

The voice assistant most of us overlook is the one that is available to more than 500 million of us on Windows PCs. Microsoft's Cortana has been sequestered in laptops and desktops for too long, but ...

All the new wins for Alexa and Google Assistant announced at CES 2018 this week have led many to wonder about Cortana's prospects. Microsoft is trying to fight back against perceptions that Cortana ...

Now that Google has unveiled the new additions to its Home speaker lineup and Sonos has launched its own Alexa-enabled device, Microsoft seriously has to hurry up if it wants its assistant to have a ...

Today, Microsoft announced that its digital assistant, Cortana, will now work with IFTTT and a number of new smart home devices, such as the Ecobee, Honeywell Lyric, and LIFX. To set them up, just ...

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