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Siri (/ ˈ s ɪər i / ⓘ SEER-ee, backronym Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface) is a digital assistant purchased, developed, and popularized by Apple Inc., which is included in the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems.
Apple announces Siri, a digital personal assistant. In addition to being able to recognize speech, Siri is able to understand the meaning of what it is told and take appropriate action. [12] 2014: April 2: Application: Microsoft announces Cortana, a digital personal assistant similar to Siri. [13] 2014: November 6: Invention
TIL: Gary Dahl, who invented the pet rock in 1975 came up with the idea at a bar with friends as a joke. He later began selling rocks. Within 2 months he was selling 10k rocks a day within half a ...
Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) [11] is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. [12] [13] It was discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight and is one of the strongest X-ray sources detectable from Earth, producing a peak X-ray flux density of 2.3 × 10 −23 W/(m 2 ⋅Hz) (2.3 × 10 3 jansky).
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Apple's Siri (2011), Google's Google Now (2012) and Microsoft's Cortana (2014) are smartphone apps that use natural language to answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions. 2012 AlexNet , a deep learning model developed by Alex Krizhevsky , wins the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge with half as many errors as the ...
A related belief arose in 2015 that telling Siri on an iPhone to "Charge my phone to 100%" would cause the phone to call the emergency services as a secret safety code. [4] This was later traced to a bug in Apple programming that was fixed within a day. The myth continued to spread on social media as a prank. [5]
1972 — Jacob Bekenstein suggests that black holes have an entropy proportional to their surface area due to information loss effects; 1974 — Stephen Hawking applies quantum field theory to black hole spacetimes and shows that black holes will radiate particles with a black-body spectrum which can cause black hole evaporation