Mission Impossibly Funny: Siri Will Self-Destruct in Five Seconds (Video)

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to laugh.
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Take a Note: Typing With No Hands

Use the microphone icon on your virtual keyboard to dictate accurate texts, Tweets, emails and more.
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Not Surprisingly, U.S. Teens Are Texting More, Talking Less

OMG, ICYMI: Teens are texting more, and shunning uncool “landlines.”
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Nuance Buying Vlingo, a Rival It Once Sued

Voice leader Nuance is scooping up its one-time legal target, for an undisclosed price.
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On The Verge of a New Tech Site, Which Finally Debuts

Tonight at 1 am PT, techies who have nothing else to do — that would be me! — can click onto a brand new tech site called The Verge.
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Off With Their Heads! More Beheaded Siri Ads for Apple iPhone 4S (Video)

Apple seems to like to cut off the heads of all adults — kids appear to be spared the semi-beheadings — in these latest ads for its new iPhone 4S featuring the Siri voice control feature.
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Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple

Siri, is it true that one of your creators left the building at Apple? Yes, sigh, Dag.
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Google Translate Can Now Say “Take That, Siri” in 14 Languages

The company’s Android app, which began testing speech-to-speech translations in English and Spanish in January, now supports a bunch more languages.
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Now What?  The Post-Jobs Era in Tech.

Can anyone in Silicon Valley fill the outsized shoes of Steve Jobs? Not likely.
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In-Depth With Siri: The Full Demo From the D7 Conference (Plus an Old-School Bonus)

Even back in 2009, Siri’s machine learning-assisted software was pretty compelling. Here’s a video of the whole product demo, plus what Apple thought the voice assistant product would look like in 1987.
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