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UPDATE: Following the revelation that Apple’s Siri listens to users’ conversations, the Cupertino tech major has announced that it will stop its global internal program and stop people from Apple listening to conversations. Additionally, after reviewing Siri policies, Apple will allow users to opt-out of the program. In a statement to Bloomberg, Apple said, “We […]
The female broadcaster and voice artist whose voice is used for Siri’s Hebrew dialect is suing Apple for using her voice without permission. Galit Gura-Eini has filed a lawsuit against Apple and has claimed that her voice has been used for saying racist, violent and sexual things. Waze, a GPS navigation software app has used […]
As part of the yearly test, research firm Loup Ventures, recently conducted a smart speaker IQ test, whose winner comes out to be the Google Assistant. According to the research, Google Assistant stands first with 88 percent correct answers, following which Apple’s Siri is at the second spot with 75 percent correct answers, Amazon Alexa […]
Venmo has patched multiple flaws that could have allowed an attacker to steal as much as $2,999.99 from unsuspecting victims using Siri. Venmo is a mobile app that allows friends to exchange payments between one another in a simplified way. Those with the app can pay a friend for covering a dinner bill, for example. […]
Short Bytes: A combined research has been conducted by UC Berkeley and Georgetown University to demonstrate how distorted voice commands hidden in YouTube videos can be used to attack a smartphone. The research shows that certain harmful commands that can be understood by our voice assistants can be hidden inside a YouTube video. Speech recognition systems […]
A YouTube Video explains that Facebook’s popular social messaging service WhatsApp can potentially and easily be hijacked by anyone if the user isn’t careful enough. A trick has been discovered recently that allows a person to take control of your WhatsApp account. This new trick involves using nothing else but the phone number of the […]
For those who do not know much about Siri, Siri is a voice based application which was designed by Apple. It is one of the most famous as well as amusing applications designed by Apple which let you instruct your i-Phone via different voice commands. Microsoft has launched its voice assistant Cortana and it’s pretty […]
Siri to go multilingual? Apple has confirmed that Siri will now learn The Chinese language for its customer as the company kicks off for iPhone 4S launch to the Chinese market, on January 13th, Friday, next week. According to Apple media adviser, the digital assistant will learn Mandarin as the main reason for iPhone 4s popularity […]