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How Apple Is Taking Over Your Car
It’s no secret that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs was keen on bringing the company’s technology to the automotive world. In fact, according to longtime Apple board member Mickey Drexler, “Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar.” Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Shiller, echoed those sentiments during the company’s copyright infringement trial against Samsung, saying there had been discussion of Apple making a vehicle.
Retro Mac 512K Can Talk To Siri Too
Some hacks exist essentially just because they can. It’s not particularly practical or fast to use Siri to send files between a Mac 512K and an iMac. It’s kind of fun, though.
Siri Becomes A Home Automation Master With The Help Of Raspberry Pi
With home automation being all the rage these days, it was only a matter of time before Siri got her little, occasionally judgmental claws into the action. All it took was YouTube user Elvis Impersonator, a Raspberry Pi and enough trust in Siri’s goodness to believe she won’t devolve into a Hal 9000 wannabe.
How Do Computers Understand Speech?
More and more, we can get computers to do things for us by talking to them. A computer can call your mother when you tell it to, find you a pizza place when you ask for one, or write out an email that you dictate. Sometimes the computer gets it wrong, but a lot of the time it gets it right, which is amazing when you think about what a computer has to do to turn human speech into written words: turn tiny changes in air pressure into language.
Who Is Eddy Cue? The Guy Who Fixes All Of Apple’s Problems
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services and Ferrari board member, is Apple’s do-everything, fix-any-problem man. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, he’s the guy who’s in charge of fixing Apple Maps and Siri.
