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Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All

What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it originally seemed. Last month, Redditors discovered that the iOS 14.5 beta presented a new menu when a user asked Siri to play music. That menu offered app alternatives for music playback, including Spotify,…

Tech News Catie Keck Mar 4

‘Hey Facebook,’ How About Not?

Chances are you’re probably familiar with using a command like, “OK Google,” “Hey Siri,” or “Alexa” to summon a voice assistant. But now, the company that brought you pokes and likes—and who could forget fake news?— is trying to add, “Hey Facebook” to your rotation. Facebook’s new vocal command officially rolled out today with the…

Social Media Sam Rutherford Feb 25

Apple Maps Will Soon Get Waze’s Best Features

Features familiar to the Waze crowd are coming soon to Apple Maps. Available now for developer and public beta users running iOS 14.5, and rolling out to all users later this spring, the new features will allow passengers and drivers to easily report a speed check, accident, or any kind of hazard they encounter while…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 10

It Looks Like Apple Will Let You Change Your Default Music App in iOS 14.5

Apple’s giving users another good reason to take its latest public beta for a test drive. Hawk-eyed Redditors using the iOS 14.5 public beta noticed that when asking Siri to play music, the assistant will prompt the user to select which music app they’d like it to use to play the song or artist. Normally,…

Internet Catie Keck Feb 8

How Secure Is Your Digital Assistant?

Chatting with Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri has become a part of our day-to-day life, whether we’re using our voices to turn on smart lights or ask our devices for the weather forecast. But what you might not think about daily is just how secure and private these three voice assistants actually are. What happens…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 11

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Reviews Avery Ellis Dec 8

The HomePod Mini Is Here and Hey, It’s Real Small and Round!

Were we surprised that Apple announced a HomePod Mini today? Absolutely not. The stream of leaks suggesting Apple had planned a HomePod refresh has been steady and strong—hell we even had a last-minute leak this morning. And as suspected, the HomePod Mini made its official debut at today’s iPhone event—and it’s only $100. That $100…

Tech News Victoria Song Oct 13

Siri Is What’s Really Holding the HomePod Back

It’s easy to dunk on Apple’s HomePod speaker. For one, it costs $300. Currently, it doesn’t support third-party music services (though that’s supposedly on the way). HomeKit is a mixed bag when it comes to controlling a smart home, and for the price, the Apple TV is arguably the smarter choice for a HomeKit hub.…

Tech News Victoria Song Oct 7

Latest Leak Suggests Apple’s Got a HomePod Mini In Store—But Is That Enough?

Now that Apple has finally set a date for its iPhone 12 event, new info is coming about other products Apple might release with one leak suggesting that instead of a HomePod 2, Apple will release a cheaper HomePod Mini. In a short but direct post on Twitter, L0vetodream—who has a pretty solid track record…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Oct 7

Siri Is Honestly Just a Terrible Kitchen Assistant

Folks, we need to talk about Siri. It has, on a number of recent occasions, been brought up among staff at Gizmodo that Siri’s hands-free help in a number of environments is considerably lacking—including and especially in the kitchen. Questions often go unanswered, requests for volume control unheard, and god help you if you need…

Tech News Catie Keck Sep 23

Alexa’s Opinion of ‘All Lives Matter’ Is a Big Fail

While Google, Apple, and Amazon generally do their best to keep their voice assistants apolitical, all three have decided to program answers to the questions “Do Black lives matter?” and “Do all lives matter?” It’s a good thing that all three affirm that Black lives, do in fact, matter. But where Google and Apple’s virtual…

Tech News Victoria Song Jun 8

Siri Whistleblower Goes Public to Protest Lack of Consequences for Apple

Last summer, an anonymous contractor revealed that Apple had contractors listening to private conversations, unknowingly recorded by their devices, as part of a “grading” system to improve Siri. Now, the whistleblower has gone public in a letter sent to European data protection regulators, decrying the lack of action taken against Apple for violating people’s privacy.…

Tech News Victoria Song May 20

Hey Siri, Do I Have Coronavirus?

If you’re an Apple user feeling under the weather and are worried you might have covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, you now have a new resource at your disposal: Siri. Apple has updated Siri with a questionnaire that helps people identify disease symptoms and determine the best course of action. To access…

Tech News Jody Serrano Mar 22

Siri Doesn’t Know Who the King of Spain Is

Siri is apparently having a really hard time figuring out what’s going on in Spain lately. Apple’s voice assistant made headlines in the European country today for providing two answers to the question, “Siri, who is the king of Spain?” The first answer, Felipe VI, is indeed the real king of the country. However, the…

Tech News Jody Serrano Jan 20

Man Trapped in Car in Icy River Saved By Yelling, ‘Siri, Call 911’

An Iowa man recently survived what could have easily been a fatal road accident by shouting “Siri, call 911,” CNN reported on Thursday. KIMT3 News reported that 18-year-old Charles City, Iowa man Gael Salcedo was driving to classes at North Iowa Area Community College when he slid on ice and was plunged into the Winnebago…

Tech News Tom McKay Dec 12

Siri Has Made Me Deeply Uncomfortable

Hey Siri, debase me in the most unsettling way possible. Last week, Twitter user raybelline posted a video that’s at once hilarious and viscerally uncomfortable to listen to. Screen recording of an iPhone showed that Siri had been asked to address the user by an extended version of “haha” that seemed to confuse Siri’s robot…

Tech News Catie Keck Dec 11

How to Find and Delete Everything You’ve Ever Said to Your Digital Assistants

Most of us are comfortable using digital assistants to ask about the weather, or the traffic on the way to work, or just how many years it’s been since our favorite sports team actually won anything—but what’s happening to all of our voice commands and queries? And just how many human beings are listening in…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 6

Google Changing Privacy Protections for Assistant, Plans to Auto-Delete More of Your Audio Data

In recent months, it became clear that Google, Apple, and Amazon were all guilty of having humans review audio recordings collected by digital assistants. Today, Google’s trying to mitigate some of the backlash by updating and clarifying its policies on what it does with your audio data. In July, a Google subcontractor leaked over a…

Tech News Victoria Song Sep 23

Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism

The Guardian is reporting that internal documentation governing Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, was rewritten to specifically avoid the word feminism. The company told the Guardian “[o]ur approach is to be factual with inclusive responses rather than offer opinions.” The opinion here being… feminism is okay. https://gizmodo.com/apple-contractors-reportedly-overhear-sensitive-informa-1836760314 Presumably, the employees of Apple have no beef with…

Tech News Alex Cranz Sep 6

Facebook Did the Sneaky Listening Thing, Too

Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors around the world to transcribe some of its users Messenger messages, according to a new Bloomberg report. The social network stopped doing the transcriptions a week ago, following public outrage after journalists revealed that Amazon, Google, and Apple employed similar teams to review voice commands for Alexa, Assistant, and…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 13

Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All

‘Hey Facebook,’ How About Not?

Apple Maps Will Soon Get Waze’s Best Features

It Looks Like Apple Will Let You Change Your Default Music App in iOS 14.5

How Secure Is Your Digital Assistant?

The Best Over-Ear Headphones for Working Out

The HomePod Mini Is Here and Hey, It’s Real Small and Round!

Siri Is What’s Really Holding the HomePod Back

Latest Leak Suggests Apple’s Got a HomePod Mini In Store—But Is That Enough?

Siri Is Honestly Just a Terrible Kitchen Assistant

Alexa’s Opinion of ‘All Lives Matter’ Is a Big Fail

Siri Whistleblower Goes Public to Protest Lack of Consequences for Apple

Hey Siri, Do I Have Coronavirus?

Siri Doesn’t Know Who the King of Spain Is

Man Trapped in Car in Icy River Saved By Yelling, ‘Siri, Call 911’

Siri Has Made Me Deeply Uncomfortable

How to Find and Delete Everything You’ve Ever Said to Your Digital Assistants

Google Changing Privacy Protections for Assistant, Plans to Auto-Delete More of Your Audio Data

Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism

Facebook Did the Sneaky Listening Thing, Too

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