Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company used its Google Assistant to snoop on customers without their consent, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs ...

WARNING: Story contains explicit language. My dad once lived here for a few months. When the RCMP headquarters (the “cop shop”, as he calls it) was the federal building. He shovelled its sidewalk for ...

If Alexa’s in your home, you might’ve been one of many users this month who were suddenly moved from the original Alexa to the new AI-powered Alexa+ voice assistant. Amazon announced in early January ...

Sending messages on WhatsApp usually requires typing on your phone’s keyboard, which can be inconvenient when your hands are busy or when you’re driving, cooking, or multitasking. Thankfully, Android ...

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company used its Google Assistant to snoop on customers without their consent, Reuters reports. The lawsuit dates ...

Apple has acquired Q.ai in a deal estimated around $2 billion. Though there’s still a lot we don’t know, some of the details surrounding Q.ai’s work have me very excited for the future of Apple’s AI ...

Voice recognition technology has been around since the '50s, but it wasn't until the rise of the smart speaker ago that it finally began to reach its potential. Today, only a few words— "OK, Google" ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I am not, by any definition, a coder, but when I started seeing people’s vibe-coded smart home projects all over ...

A Georgia elementary school assistant principal has been accused of brazenly stealing 98 items worth about $1,000 from Walmart using a “stacking” scheme at self-checkout kiosks. Courtney Janell Shaw, ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...