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Using Wi-Fi, Airplay, and an Apple Express, Craig Knudsen of Yamaha has figured out how to get Siri to play a Yamaha Disklavier; complete with moving pedals and keys in full expression. The pointer comes via Jim Dalrymple of Loop Insights: Take a standard MIDI songfile and convert it to an audio file (while maintaining the MIDI data). The songfile is...

Apple this morning uploaded a new video to their YouTube channel. The latest TV ad features a special person utilizing Siri for the holidays--Santa Claus! Siri can help anyone get through a busy day... Or night. Within the ad, it shows Santa using Siri to help get directions and also a few other funny moments....

As noted by TUAW (via RazorianFly), Best Buy has made a new deal with Wolfram Alpha, the major source of information used by Apple's digital voice assistant Siri, giving them access to its entire product catalog. Wolfram Alpha has officially announced on their blog that  the addition has been made using Best Buy’s own public APIs, meaning you can now...

Chris Ziegler of the The Verge has pointed out that Apple has re-released iOS 5.0.1 today with a new build — 9A406 instead of the earlier 9A405. Interestingly, the new build is only available for the iPhone 4S. The update is not the larger iOS 5.1 that's currently in the hands of developers. What makes this update interesting is an...

Image via i-kreate Near the end of the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson explains what Jobs details to him about his vision for a television set: "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use," he told me. "It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and...

People will do anything to get Siri onto non-iPhone 4S devices, and we saw that with the tweak Siri0us (which was ultimately removed). This time around, H1Siri has emerged by a group of hackers in China called the CD-Dev Team. This hack brings full-fledged Siri to your iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4th generation on iOS...

By now, you must have seen tons of Siri related videos which can be found all over the web showing what can be achieved when Siri is combined with SiriProxy, for instance locking / unlocking and starting a car, fully controlling a television and even controlling third-party iOS apps. Now, this developer named Mark Hodder has combined SiriProxy with ioBridge, a small module...

Stephen Colbert has found yet another reason to love Siri. With the recent kerfuffle over Siri’s inability to locate abortion clinics in New York City, and directing similar request in Washington, D.C. to anti-abortion centers, Colbert is using the opportunity to have some fun with Siri. (Note: Apple quickly responded to the New York Times, attributing the poor search results...

Robin Williams is one of those comedians that has wit as quick as lightning. During his appearance on Ellen in late November to promote his new movie Happy Feet Two, he gave his best impersonation of Siri, everybody's favourite personal assistant. When Ellen brought up the subject of Siri and the iPhone, Robin went off...

Siri is being accused of having an antiabortion agenda -- at least in New York City and Washington, D.C.. When asked where to get an abortion, the beta personal assistant only produces results for pro-life centres or tells users that it has no knowledge of abortion clinics. Megan Carpentier, executive editor of The Raw Story, reports that Siri...

If you don't have an iPhone 4S, well, you don't have an iPhone 4S. And if you don't have an iPhone 4S, you don't have Siri (logic from Apple's TV commercials, duh). Well you don't need an iPhone 4S to make your own Siri conversations because iFakeSiri.com is here to do it for you. Just...

When Siri Proxy is combined with Apple's iPhone 4S exclusive digital voice assistant aka Siri, the possibilities become endless. We've already seen Siri being used to lock / unlock and even start a car as well as to fully control a television. Similarly, Siri controlled apps for iPhone and iPad have recently appeared on the App...