A year ago, Amazon and Microsoft pledged that their digital assistants, Alexa and Cortana, would become friends. That future has now arrived: Beginning today, you’ll be able to invoke Alexa from ...

Sick of wasting time searching for your files like some sort of 1996-era plebe? Are you willing to give up another shred of your ever-shrinking privacy for a bit more digital convenience? Because if ...

Digital assistants have historically kept to their own turfs, with a great deal of competition between them by platform but much less on a given device itself. Siri owned iOS and MacOS, Google ...

Microsoft is working to cram its new ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat service into every product it makes, and starting this fall it will be a built-in feature of Windows 11. It makes sense, then, that ...

Voice assistants are a great convenience. They make it easier than ever to control all our devices hands-free. A wide choice of assistants has risen over the past few years, including Google Assistant ...

During last week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers showed how Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant could be used to bypass the Windows lock screen. The vulnerability affects Windows 10 ...

Cortana, like all digital assistants, is supposed to make life easier by organizing your data and presenting you with helpful information when you need it. Unfortunately, that inclination to be useful ...

Cortana is the digital voice assistant built into Windows 10, designed to make your life easier with simple voice commands. And like Siri for Apple, Alexa for Amazon, and Google’s self-named voice ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Cortana started off life as a digital assistant for Windows Phone, ...

If you’re using a Windows 10 machine, you might want to consider disabling Cortana—at least on the Lock Screen—if you aren’t planning to install the latest Windows updates for whatever reason. (And, ...

Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in the Cortana smart assistant that could have allowed an attacker with access to a locked computer to use the smart assistant and access data on the device, ...