Connecting Cortana and Alexa. For starters, you will have to pair the two services, which means you will not only need an ...

The personal assistant, named after the AI female lead of the Halo series and voiced in the U.S. by the actress who portrays the character, has been widely praised for offering more features than Siri ...

Microsoft won't let you disable Cortana in future versions of Windows. Post-Anniversary Update, Cortana and desktop search will be functionally identical. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Virtual personal assistants and chatbots are all the rage these days. But while some of them, like Siri, Alexa, or even Cortana, are interesting and at times even useful, they aren't exactly suited ...

But Cortana isn't dead yet. Photo: Microsoft/Cult of Mac Microsoft has confirmed plans to kill off Cortana — but only on mobile in only eight countries. A new support article confirms that the Cortana ...

New footage shows the first images of Microsoft's new Siri- and Google Now-competitor in action -- though details are still lacking in the lead-up to its unveiling alongside Windows Phone 8.1. There's ...

Back in 2015, Microsoft was laying the groundwork for Cortana, gaming, and your Xbox. Here's a flashback to our original coverage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

SEATTLE — Voice-controlled digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are good at numerous things. They can help people play music, set up ...

Microsoft Cortana is now officially available on Android and iOS following its beta run. The digital assistant, which has long been baked into Windows Phone and now Windows 10, hopes to compete with ...

Even virtual employees aren’t safe from the artificial intelligence revolution replacing them, as evidenced by Microsoft’s Cortana app for Windows getting the boot later this year in favor of the ...

During last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers showed how Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant could be used to bypass the Windows lock screen. The vulnerability affects Windows 10 ...

Digital assistance dominated this year’s CES tech fair in Las Vegas, with Alexa and Google Assistant directly targeting each over in a massive show of force. Microsoft’s Cortana also turned up but its ...