Upon hearing a word, a person’s brain begins a process of determining what the word is in two-tenths of a second before they’ve even heard the entire word. Bob McMurray, a UI professor of psychology ...

In the past, running an always-on, always-listening wake word recognizer as software meant constantly running the applications processor, which consumed too much battery power. This has meant that ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...