Cortana

Screenshot: MicrosoftAlthough they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of…

The lonely “Windows” button on most modern keyboards is an old joke turned into a bore. The key is a lonely, barren island sitting between “alt” and “ctrl” that’s long proved more of a nuisance for a wayward finger that strays a little too far southwest than it is a usable function. While some might find the key good for accessing the Start menu, it’s emblematic of how Microsoft has failed at making Windows UI comprehensive for most users. Now, Microsoft and PC makers will start asking a new question: would you want to…

Image: ParamountThe first season of Halo’s TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedIn case you forgot how things ended, everything had largely broken bad for the humans: Halsey (Natasha McElhonne) escaped the UNSC and left Reach after trying to put the…

Raj Reddy is an Indian scientist known among the pioneers of Artificial Intelligence.Voice-based AI chatbots like Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Google Assistant are now found in every second home and nearly every device. But not many know that the man who was the brain behind the technology crucial to such intelligent chatbots.Raj Reddy is an Indian scientist known as the pioneer of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was born Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy in a village in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district to a farmer father and a…

Microsoft has announced it will end support for Cortana on Windows 10 and Windows 11 later this year. The company, however, will continue to support the virtual assistant in its other products, including Outlook Mobile, Teams Mobile, Microsoft Teams Display, and Microsoft Teams Rooms. The tech giant hasn’t revealed why it has decided to end support for Cortana on Windows 10 and Windows 11. However, Microsoft might have taken this step as it will be introducing a new virtual assistant on both platforms, called Windows…

Apparently, the introduction of Windows Copilot signaled the end of Cortana on Microsoft's desktop OS. In a new support document first spotted by Windows Central, the tech giant has announced that it will stop supporting the standalone Cortana app for Windows in late 2023. Microsoft launched Cortana as a voice assistant for Windows mobile devices back in 2014. It was supposed to be the company's answer to Apple's Siri, and it even predates Amazon's Alexa, but it never quite achieved their level of recognition and…

Goodbye, Cortana. It was a good run. Okay, Cortana isn’t dead but she may as well be with Microsoft’s latest announcement. The company hosted its Build event earlier today and revealed Windows Copilot, which brings the AI assistant right into the taskbar to assist you across the entire operating system. The company is billing Windows Copilot as a personal assistant built right into Windows 11. We’re thrilled to introduce Windows Copilot. Windows is the first PC platform to provide centralized AI…

New research shows how an attacker can use inaudible ultrasound to silently take control of phones, smart speakers, or any device with a digital assistant.Making the Facebook Papers PublicIn a study first reported by BleepingComputer, researchers found you can use the technique to give devices voice commands to make phone calls, unlock doors in smart homes, disable alarms, read text messages, and more. The attack was tested on digital assistants including Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Siri.The technique—called a…

Image: 343 Industries/MicrosoftIt’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for straying too far from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your Dragon Age II, Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over time, the initial specter of negativity will forever hover it. Microsoft’s Halo is no exception, except that negative specter hasn’t hovered over one particular game, but one…

No matter what sphere of gaming you frequent, it’s hard to escape Halo. This first-person shooter has successfully reinvented itself multiple times since its initial debut on the original Xbox in 2001. It’s a feat that wouldn’t be possible without it’s cast of characters like Master Chief and his sidekick, the artificial intelligence Cortana. While Chief is the face of the series, some consider Cortana the true center of Halo’s universe. Like Chief, Cortana has gone through vast changes throughout Halo’s history.…