When Siri launched in the U.S., the virtual assistant technology had the voice of a woman. In the U.K., Siri was a male. Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant originally launched as a female ...

A federal jury in Delaware ruled on Friday that Microsoft must pay $242 million to IPA Technologies for patent infringement related to its Cortana virtual assistant software. The week-long trial ...

Microsoft is working on putting Cortana, its Siri-like personal digital assistant, anywhere and everywhere ... He recently said that he sees virtual digital assistants like Cortana eventually ...