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...There’s no hint of the robotic about her delivery, no sense that any AI creation will inevitably sound like a version of Siri or Alexa....
...The only main hardware product Apple revealed beyond the iPhone was the HomePod Mini, a smaller, oval-shaped home speaker equipped with Siri, which it will sell for $99....
...Meanwhile Siri has been enhanced, too, and will read incoming messages if you let her....
...Mr Hauser is now backing some of the same scientists developing “gene synthesis”. “We are going to try to hang on to this one.”...
...Despite pioneering virtual assistants with Siri, Apple found itself outflanked by Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant in both sales of smart speakers and artificial intelligence capabilities....
...In the past, Apple has been criticised for not being more aggressive in employing customer data to improve its artificial intelligence systems, such as virtual assistant Siri, an area where some see the...
...Hustvedt is sceptical about using SSRI-type drugs to treat depression, about envisaging minds as machines and about making too much of genes, hormones or Darwinian drives in explaining human motivation....
...This plummeting cost, along with the shortened timescales for sequencing DNA, has led to a revolution in biotechnology: gene hacking, or the ability to turn genes on and off, and to manipulate biology to...
...Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst now a venture investor at Loup Ventures, compares investing in the group’s suppliers to playing “Russian roulette”....
...What would happen, it asked, were Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene (1976) to be published today?...
...“It definitely is going to add to the idea of management instability,” said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray....
...Head of the iOS software used in the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Mr Forstall’s ambition for more power at the company had long been apparent, said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray....
...“We expected iPhone 4S to be the strongest iPhone launch ever,” Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote to clients....
...As a result, “launch figures are not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison”, Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, wrote to clients on Monday....
...The peacock’s tail, for example, is thought by some to represent a handicap that informs the female that its bearer’s genes are so superior that he can thrive even while so handicapped – a view for which...
...My mother wept at the drop of a hat and I got the crying gene. What would you go back and change? Picking the poisonous mushrooms that nearly killed me and my family two years ago....
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