Personal Digital Assistants, or PDAs, have long been used as productivity tools in science-fiction movies; today they can be found everywhere from phones and smart speakers to watches and cars – often ...

Since their introduction in the last decade of the twentieth century, personal digital assistants (PDAs) have become useful tools for personal information management. For healthcare professionals, ...

Smart speakers and digital assistants are transforming our lives in subtle, useful ways With all the artificial intelligence ...

Have you ever noticed how all digital assistants seem to sound the same? Well, they don't have to. Alternative digital assistant voices and accents are tucked away on many devices, ready to assist you ...

In the 2013 drama Her, actor Joaquin Phoenix plays a lonely writer named Theodore who falls in love with his AI digital assistant, "Samantha." Samantha, it seems, knows Theodore better than anyone.

For years, digital assistants have relied on the cloud for almost everything. You speak, data is sent to remote servers, and an answer comes back moments later. This model powered early assistants, ...