Topic: google now

Competition over voice recognizing digital assistants is heating up

Ever since Apple launched its digital personal assistant Siri on iOS devices, companies have been trying to develop their own speech-recognition and natural-language-processing technologies. BlackBerry has the BlackBerry Assistant, Google has Google Now, and Microsoft has Cortana, for instance. The evolution of these virtual personal assistants started out as a way for these companies to … continue reading

From the Editors: Don’t get lost in the hype

Hype can be a divisive word. In terms of emerging technology, hype can be spun as positive buzz, inflated expectations, in-demand and trendy, or markedly oversaturated. But what it doesn’t translate to is real-world value. Research firm Gartner defines its yearly Hype Cycle report as a “model designed to help clients make intelligent decisions about … continue reading

SD Times Blog: Google goes back to its roots for 15th anniversary, unveils a slew of updates

Hummingbird, Knowledge Graph and Google Now cards will be seeing action in the near future … continue reading

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