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.

Thinking Machines Lab says it’s building full duplex AI, which means an AI system can take in what someone is saying while generating a response. In plain English, it’s closer to a phone call than a ...

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 ...