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According to Siri, the best smartphone is the Nokia Lumia 900 with Windows Mobile

Siri is pretty decent about answering your burning questions such as “What is the weather like outside?”, “Find me the nearest coffee shop” or “Where can I hide a dead body?”, and apparently if you ask Siri which is the best smartphone, she betrays her makers by suggesting the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows phone.

Samuel L. Jackson versus Siri. SAY WHAT ONE MORE TIME!

Siri can be pretty dumb sometimes, but does she know whether or not Marsellus Wallace looks like a bitch?

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Apple’s Siri will be fully integrated into the new Mercedes A-Class

Siri, the digital personal assistant has worked out pretty well in the iPhone 4S and now Daimler has announced that Siri will also be fully integrated into the new Mercedes A-Class cars, letting drivers send text messages, talk to the GPS and ask where one can hide the body of a dead hooker.

posted 29 February, 2012
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Microsoft’s TellMe versus Apple’s Siri… not even a contest

Recently, Microsoft executive Craig Mundie tried to downplay the iPhone 4S personal assistant Siri by saying that Windows Phone 7 has had its own personal assistant for a while called TellMe. But as you can tell from the video below (or hell, just the screenshot above), there’s really no competition between the two.

posted 29 November, 2011
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Hackers appear to control Siri with just their brainwaves

Using some EEG pads, some clever custom software and some hardwiring jiggerypokery, a couple guys have a working prototype of a mind-reading interface for Apple’s Siri. It uses about 25 commands , matching your brainwaves when you think “Call mom” or “Make a note”, running that down to the iPhone 4S mic port and voila.

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posted 12 November, 2011
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Want Siri on your Android phone? There’s an app for that.

Siri is the flagship application for Apple’s iPhone 4S, and while there are and have been voice command applications before, Sirit is different because of its integration with core software and the way it responds to natural language and not just a string of exact commands. But there’s now an app for Android that is somewhat similar, kinda sorta.

posted 23 October, 2011
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Siri on the iPhone 4S says some weird things. Here’s some of them.

No doubt, some of you are eagerly anticipating your brand new iPhone 4S or maybe standing outside in the rain at your local Apple store to pick one up, and if you are, I’m sure you’re going to try and ask the voice assistant Siri some pretty weird questions, and she’s got some pretty weird answers.

posted 14 October, 2011
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Is Apple planning powerful upgrade to Apple TV, Siri included?

Despite the fact that Apple TV has been the gimpy leg of an otherwise very strong product offering, Apple’s not giving up on the technology any time soon. As a matter of fact, rumor has it that the next version of Apple TV will not only be much more powerful than ever before, but it will include the voice-controlled assistant Siri, making finding programming that much easier. Or at least futuristic.

posted 11 October, 2011
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GlaDOS replaces Siri in the Apple iPhone 4S

So someone submitted this yesterday, and I’ve already got a backlog of way too much shit that’s been submitted, and all this person put in the description was “iPhone parody” and in a gut reaction, I hit the “x” to delete. Honestly, an iPhone parody? Bleh. But then today someone else submitted it as a YouTube link with an actual description of what it was and I watched it and it’s really damn funny.

Moral of the story: If you’re submitting something, sell it and tell me why I should watch it, because people submit a lot of shit to IHC and I try to go through it all, but sometimes if you’ve bored me right off the bat, I’m gonna get hair-trigger and delete it and move on. Nothing personal.

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posted 07 October, 2011
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If you downloaded the older version of the Siri personal assistant, it stops working October 15

When Apple unveiled the signature software feature of the iPhone 4S, the Siri personal assistant, they gushed and gushed about how brand new and cutting edge it was and how it’s going to change everything forever as we know it, but the one thing they didn’t tell you is that it’s not actually their app that up until Tuesday, you could get on the App Store.

posted 07 October, 2011
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Back in 1987, Apple predicted it would invent the Siri voice assistant and got the date right within 18 days

First, I know that Android has had voice commands for a while, but so has iOS. The thing with iOS 5’s Siri is that it’s one of the best ones out there (or so it appears) in that you talk to it with natural language, not with a couple stilted commands. Back in 1987, Apple CEO John Scully imagined the Knowledge Navigator, a very Siri-like system running on a tablet.

This futuristic video takes place on September 16, 2011, which is only 18 days away from the actual launch date of Siri on October 4, 2011. Creepy. At least that’s something worthwhile Scully did.

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