Siri, Apple’s voice-enabled personal assistant software, was very cool when it first came out but it hasn’t exactly aged gracefully. For one thing, it’s slow compared to other voice recognition services and for another it needs an Internet connection to function at all. Quartz reports that Intel is working on voice recognition technology that’s designed […]

An internet connection is usually the only thing between you and your remotely stored data. Not with IDrives new Safe service, however, which is a strange mix of traditional archiving and newfangled cloud storage. For a one-off payment of $100, the companyll send you a physical 1TB hard drive to fill up, collect it from […]