Industry voice: Virtual Assistants: the next tech frontier

Industry voice: Virtual Assistants: the next tech frontier   The news that the latest Nokia Lumia 735 includes Microsoft's Cortana, and the images of the desktop version for Windows 10, are just the latest exciting developments in computing. The next step is one where machines become capable of learning and self-reflexively developing knowledge about the people and objects around them.The next step in emerging technologies is a service that consolidates our experience. Currently apps like Siri and Cortana are limited by their operating system. They don't engage with other apps so they tend to be more of an annoyance than an assistant. Read more >