This week, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review that Siri, best pal of Zooey Deschanel and oft-snarky gal-Friday of the iPhone, has been banned from the company's internal networks, over concern that spoken queries might be stored somewhere. Read More >

Back in March, Apple was hit with a class action lawsuit over Siri being dumb and bad. Which, well—yeah, pretty much. But instead of rushing to the defense of its prized new software, Apple has run out a defense of, basically, "No, YOU ARE." Read More >

It was only a few days ago when we asked Siri the fateful question, "What's the best smartphone ever?", to which our faithful assistant replied with, er, the Nokia Lumia 900. But now, it seems Siri has the answer to that question with a varied amount of witty and humorous responses. Read More >

What's the best smartphone ever? That's a difficult question; there are quite a few pretty decent phones around at the moment. You've got the HTC One series; Samsung's new incoming Galaxy S III; LG's Optimus 4XHD; not to mention the iPhone 4S. But according to Siri, none of the others make the grade -- it's all about Nokia's Lumia 900. Read More >

Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical training. Last month, at a conference in Boston, BT's Bas Burger used Siri to launch a mock experiment that analysed data on the new cloud service the company build specifically for life sciences R&D. Read More >

Hey there, future person, you've misplaced your iPhone 5. Some nefarious person is trying to break in and steal all of your naked pictures. Not to worry, you've programed Siri to self-destruct Mission Impossible-style after three incorrect login attempts. Boom. Read More >

One morning, Zooey Deschanel, the actress, woke up. She had dreamt she was Empress Joséphine, but it was just a dream, like all other dreams. She was a little cranky. So she turned to her one true friend—Siri, QT! Read More >

Here's the thing with Siri: She's actually kind of dumb sometimes. It can be infuriating. But I don't think anyone gets angrier than Samuel L. Jackson in this hilarious Pulp Fiction/Siri mashup. Read More >

Apple originally touted Siri as the killer feature for the iPhone 4S, but it might not be exclusive to the phone for long. A new patent shows that iPhone users could be using Siri to control their iMac or MacBook in forthcoming versions of these machines. Read More >

According to Dag Kittlaus, one of the co-founders of Siri, which Apple bought in 2010 and shoved on the iPhone 4S -- Steve Jobs really didn’t like the name of his new voice assistant but simply couldn’t come up with anything better. Read More >

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Don't try to argue it, you can't. It's so good, you can play it at your wedding and your funeral. But it's not quite as good as when Apple's robosistant tries to take the lead. Read More >

Somehow, through the smog of doubt and tech cynicism, the new iPad managed not to disappoint—likely owing to a retina display that's more glorious than Athena's cleavage. But! No Siri! Apple you screwed us again! Actually, no: be glad it's missing. Read More >

Speech recognition wasn't a new prospect when Siri was revealed by Apple last year. But with the rapid proliferation of the iPhone 4S, its easy to forget about all the past attempts to bring talking computers into our lives. Read More >

Batman's always marched to the beat of his own drum, but as Superman points out, it might be time for him to trade in his home grown bat-gear for something a little more off-the-shelf. Read More >

Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people—unmotivational fitness coach, mildly-incompetent navigator, and tin-eared first runner-up in a two-AI contest to name just a few. But now a group of artists have given Siri a human touch by supposing what the automated assistant would look like in the flesh. Read More >