“I’ll get you an answer tomorrow.” “I’ll have those figures to you by EOD.” “I’ll get you that report on Friday.” With the constant barrage of emails, your promises to do one thing or another can get lost in the shuffle. Enter Cortana. You may already use Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon)‘s digital assistant to …
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Is the world about to get a smart speaker that features Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant? That’s the question Windows watching are asking after getting a glimpse of a video posted by audio-equipment maker Harman Kardon. The 30-second video doesn’t give much away, preferring to rely on its self-evident title, “Harman Kardon + Cortana: Premium audio meets personal assistant.” That combination …
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Thanks to the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update, you can now get Android notifications on your Windows 10 PC. This feature works through Cortana and the Cortana app for Android (there’s a Cortana app for iOS, but iOS doesn’t support this kind of fancy notification-mirroring). Once set up, your Windows 10 action center will be able to tell you when …
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When Amazon’s done, it may very well have shoehorned its digital assistant Alexa into your sink, your sofa and your walls. For now, Amazon will settle for connecting Alexa to as many electronic and Wi-Fi-enabled objects as it can. Amazon’s push toward Alexa dominance took another step forward Thursday, when the online retail giant added Alexa for the first time …
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Now playing: Watch this: Amazon wants to put Alexa on your PC 1:28 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant may be talking her way into yet another important place: PCs. Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has held talks with Amazon on potentially using Alexa in its computers and other devices, according to a Lenovo executive with knowledge of the talks. The …
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