A new breed of services called virtual assistants let you outsource just about any task overseas, as long as the work can be done with a computer and a telephone. Virtual assistants are contract ...

Rebecca Newenham, 50, didn't want to return to the corporate world and became a virtual assistant. She expanded and now has 50 virtual assistants in Britain and Spain. This is how she grew her ...

Voice-operated user interfaces are the way of the future. And, somewhat counter-intuitively, they’ve been the future for a long time, ever since Captain Kirk started issuing commands to the Enterprise ...

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As part of its plan to execute on its vision of end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation, insight and actions from client to cloud, AI-driven networks provider Juniper Networks has ...

Before Siri and Alexa, there was Bonzi. In the early 2000s, a purple, talking gorilla named BonziBuddy was billed as a free virtual assistant, ready for all your internet needs. It could talk, search ...

Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant were all female. The topic has been much discussed and researched in recent years, with data offering as one explanation for the phenomenon that both men and ...