Cortana, Microsoft’s competitor to Google Now and Apple’s Siri is a virtual assistant that not only takes the stage, but attempts to steal it. Cortana brings new features to the table, including ...

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Watch out, Siri. Someone wants your job. Since it debuted on the iPhone 4S three years ago, Apple’s Siri technology has been synonymous with the concept of a virtual personal assistant. But now comes ...

To develop Cortana, Microsoft apparently spoke to a number of “real personal assistants” and learned that they kept track of the interests and preferences of their bosses in a notebook. So Microsoft ...