Tag: Siri

Stock Photo / Image via Pexels Turns out, all our fears are true. When first getting a digital assistant like Siri, Cortana, or Alexa, there’s a worry about how much the machine is tuning in. While the normal command to start up the assistant is to call out its name, there’s the concern that these products and digital aides are listening in at all times. Even in our most intimate of moments. And now, a British news site is taking up...

We’d expect nothing less: when Barbra Streisand found that Siri couldn’t pronounce her name, she didn’t just give up in defeat. She made them fix Siri. That news came out in a lovely new NPR interview in which the star charms the pants off of Scott Simon (probably not literally but then again you never know). At one point during the interview, she showed off by asking Siri “who’s was the only female vocalist who’s had hit records for six straight decades?” “Barbra...