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Alexa for work - the IT helpdesk's new best friend
- Editor in chief 01 Dec 2017 -
When Richard & Judy inspired Google
23 Nov 2017 -
This is an arty hack
15 Nov 2017
Helpdesk technicians in IT departments around the world will rejoice at Amazon’s announcement of a corporate version of its voice-enabled assistant Alexa for use in the workplace. It cannot now be ...
Did anyone else catch Richard & Judy on 1 April 2003? In case you missed it, they pranked the nation with a segment on a device they claimed could convert sampled speech into other languages in ...
The Neil Buchanan of Vietnamese cyber security has pulled Apple’s pants down by making a mask that can trick the iPhone X’s facial recognition technology. Come and have a look at this. Now, to make ...
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Cockatoos stick their beaks into broadband
09 Nov 2017 -
Unleash the Aibos
01 Nov 2017 -
I always thought my boss was a robot
- Computer Weekly 20 Oct 2017 -
Lies, damned lies, and Neistats
19 Oct 2017 -
Virtual inanity
12 Oct 2017 -
Is it too late now to say Siri?
05 Oct 2017 -
Jack rabbits on
27 Sep 2017
Australia’s broadband is under siege from a group of vicious cockatoos with no known motive. The cables they’re eating are not thought to be made from any of the birds’ classic vices, such as fruit ...
Sony is bringing back Aibo, Japan’s original answer to a human hankering for a robotic dog that needlessly cocks its leg. How relaunching what is essentially an elaborate Furby helps the company’s ...
You: “You alright?” Boss: “Good morning Joe, I trust you slept well and the commute was satisfactory.” This could be a regular welcome if we start to work for robot bosses, and new research has ...
Celebrity man-child YouTuber Casey Neistat is the latest bizarre character to berate the nuances of the site’s recent algorithm tweaks, as they continue to put perfect lives under slight threat. We ...
Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for an insensitive Facebook Spaces broadcast in which his cartoon alter ego takes a chirpy virtual reality tour of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. Facebook’s cause ...
People are trying to work out why Siri thought Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit Despacito was the Bulgarian national anthem. But the chance to enjoy the error for yourself has come and gone. Indeed, ...
Twitter’s move to double its 140-character limit to 280 has been marked by CEO Jack Dorsey unwittingly composing the worst tweet of all time, in a failed mission to justify the merits of waffle. ...
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For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of Jobs
21 Sep 2017 -
eharmony and Alexa are officially an item
- Computer Weekly 07 Sep 2017 -
Activate living within its memes
31 Aug 2017 -
It'll be alt-right on the night
24 Aug 2017 -
Damore you talk, the less you say
16 Aug 2017
Apple proudly claims it’s set the path of technology for the next decade with its iPhone X, but it would’ve been nice if it just did that with the one it announced half hour earlier. Instead, the ...
“Let me tell you about your first match. Ooh la la! She lives five miles away!” You probably wouldn’t think Alexa would say something like that but now it can, thanks to some creative intervention ...
It’s hard to imagine any attempt to create a Tory answer to Momentum going very well, but the bumbling inception of Activate has exceeded all expectations of ineptitude. The all-new “independent ...
Calamitous alt-right website Breitbart has been tricked into an email exchange with a prankster posing as Donald Trump’s recently dumped adviser Steve Bannon. Under the guise of Bannon, back in the ...
James Damore thinks he was frogmarched out of Google for telling the truth. In reality, he wrote a 10-page memo, cobbled together from scraps of research chosen to fit his intense fear of gender ...