personal assistant
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The Next Cortana Won’t Just Be A Sexy Lady — You Can Also Choose A Dude
Why are our digital assistants submissive human women? It’s more than a little sexist, no? But Microsoft’s Cortana will soon let you change her gender. There will be a male version too.
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Creepy Robot Looks Like Your Friends, Knows What You’re Thinking
Humans are the worst — there’s no denying it. But isolating yourself from the rest of humanity doesn’t exactly come with the best track record either. Now, though, you can get the best of both worlds thanks to SociBot-Mini, a depth-sensing, mood-reading, friends’-identity-stealing disembodied robot torso.