Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...

Google decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-powered Duplex on the Web feature for its virtual Assistant. I imagine at least half of the people reading this will be wondering what Duplex on ...

“Duplex” is Google’s umbrella term for technologies that can handle tedious, multistep tasks on your behalf. The phone version was the most well-known application of this technology, and Google is now ...

Sometimes, making an important phone call to set up an appointment can be inconvenient or nerve-wracking. That, or you just don't feel like doing it. There's potentially good news on that front.

Google’s much-hyped reservation-setting AI, Duplex, is a one-trick pony with nowhere near the conversational versatility we’ll see in the artificial general intelligence (AGI) of the future. But the ...

When a robot rings your phone, you can usually tell right away. Its voice is melodic, it rarely stumbles, and it’s unnaturally efficient. The voice betrays its origin before it even has the chance to ...

A duplex is a type of housing consisting of two separate units built on one parcel of land. The two units that make up a duplex may be either attached or detached. Attached units share at least one ...