In addition to everything else Amazon can do for you — recommend books, stream movies, let you shop for appliances and clothes and gourmet food, and get it all by overnight delivery — the company also wants to put a video-equipped digital assistant in your house. This is the latest iteration of Amazon’s Echo speaker […]

Voice recognition software is more and more common on our devices, but if you're speaking with an accent or in two languages at once, you might be in trouble.

What's the buzz?

Big rumor is that Apple is going to announce something called Assistant, which is a much improved version of voice recognition. Apple purchased a…

El Cinco (the iPhone 5) won't likely be getting here until at least fall but the next version of the Apple mobile operating system, iOS, will…

Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief and other wonderful books, joined our show on Monday.  We've received…