Alexa, Google Assistant to be integrated in XBox One
San Francisco, June 4: Microsoft is reportedly working with Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa to support voice commands for the upcoming "Xbox One".
The new gaming console is expected to come with a new "Digital Assistants" menu for users to choose from Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana to control the device using voice commands with.
"The full range of features for those assistants remain unknown, but it could bring many voice-assisted features," Windows Central reported on Sunday.
"Microsoft along with Amazon and Google might give some of the voice-assisted dedicated microphone features too," the report added.
Cortana, reportedly will become an "app" for Amazon Echo and probably other speakers.
Former Xbox console marketing lead Albert Penello recently joined Amazon specifically to grow the Echo's presence in gaming.
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Cyber crime in Mangaluru: Kavoor Police arrest three men from Kerala in two separate cases
Mangaluru: Three men from Kerala, Nisar, Sahil KP and Muhammad Nashath, were arrested by Kavoor Police for alleged involvement in two separate cases of cyber crime with money extortion reported in the city.
City Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has said that Nisar, who is from Ernakulam district of Kerala, had extorted Rs 68 lakh from the complainant after introducing himself as a CBI officer and threatening the complainant during the call.
He added that, in the second case, the arrested Sahil, who is from Thiruvannur in Kozhikode, and Nashath, a native of Mappila Koilandy in Kerala, duped the complainant of up to Rs 90 lakh by assuring high profits in share market investment. The accused duo was held in Koilandy and produced before the court.
The investigation was carried out under the guidance of the Police Commissioner, led by ACP (Mangaluru North Sub-division) Srikanth K and police personnel of the Kavoor Police Station, including Inspector Raghavendra Byndoor, Sub-inspector Mallikarjuna Biradara and constables Ramanna Shetty, Bhuvaneshwari, Rajappa Kashibai, Praveen N and Malatesh.
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