Perplexity rolled out an upgraded voice mode for its Comet browser on desktop today, with iOS arriving in days, letting you fully control the browser hands free.

A woman who uses a wheelchair says she’s often unable to pay for her weekly food shop because of supermarket self-checkouts. Toyin Fabusiwa, 26, posted a video of her struggling to scan her groceries ...

Sometimes there can be more serious consequences. In 2024, a coroner in Buckinghamshire asked tech companies like Google, Apple and TomTom to make changes to their audio prompts after a driver went ...

Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions ...

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...

We get so used to automation and so jaded that we assume every experience is with a robot. So naturally exchanges between human workers and their customers can get so awkward and aggravating. See what ...

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voice reads ...

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The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

AI translation has moved past clunky robot voices. From earbuds that translate 43 languages in half a second to Zoom calls that reanimate your lips to speak Japanese, Kim Komando scouts the gear that ...

Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance software, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is desperately looking to reinvent the ...

Designed for seniors with dementia, the Tombot Jennie is the most realistic robot pet I've ever seen. It even helped comfort me with missing my real dog back at home. I'm PCMag's managing editor for ...