A future in which conversational computers predominate has been a staple of computer science chit-chat since the 1940s, when Alan Turing set out to build a machine that would respond like a human to ...

The technical kinks, high costs and application misfires that have held back the acceptance of speech recognition and activation are being ironed out. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET ...

Our hacker from [Appalachian Forge Works] wrote in to let us know about their vending machine build: a Halloween vending computer that talks. He starts by demonstrating the vending process: a backlit ...