MSDN Voice Search app shows you how to integrate your app with Cortana

The app is called MSDN Voice Search and lets you “search MSDN with Cortana using Voice Commands.” The app provides demonstrations on basic, voice-enabled natural language search capabilities on MSDN, ...
Los Angeles Times

These California companies want you to ditch your keyboard

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Silicon Valley startups and tech giants are pushing voice-based AI dictation as faster than typing, with ...
PC World

Spotify’s hidden Basic tier can save you cash, if you can find it

PCWorld reports that Spotify offers a hidden “Basic” tier launched in mid-2024 for $10.99/month, providing music-only streaming without audiobooks or lossless audio. This plan requires existing ...
TechCrunch

The best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...
Complex

Justin Bieber Calls Out iPhone Dictation Button: 'The Send Button Shouldn’t Have Multiple Functions’

Justin Bieber has nearly reached his boiling point with the placement of the dictation button in iMessage. Bieber has grown so frustrated about hitting the dictation button after sending a text that ...
TechCrunch

As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital

Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage, an average user writes more than 50% of their characters through the ...
The Verge

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...
Forbes

Wispr’s Flow Dictation Software Is Now Available To Use On iPhones

Not all dictation apps or functions are created equal. Now Flow from Wispr is available for iOS devices so you can dictate accurately from inside any app using the power of AI to clean up text. You’re ...