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[Sam Battle] known on YouTube as [Look Mum No Computer] is mostly known as a musical artist, but seems lately to have taken a bit of shine to retro telecoms gear, and this latest foray is into the ...

The next time you're on IM, you better watch out, computers are getting better and better at pretending to be human. At the recent Loebner Prize competition in LA, a chatterbot named Suzette won first ...

Who needs another distraction? Having to work from home most of the time, I have plenty distraction even when I'm in my home office alone – but a little distraction doesn't hurt when it could releases ...

Move over iBuddy and Availbot, the masters of robo-companionship toys have arrived on scene. This is a WowWee Chatterbot, a USB-powered desktop companion that reacts with some motion and a bit of ...

Makers and electronic enthusiasts looking for a project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in a new Arduino chatterbox called Eve which has been created and built by Debashish Buragohain ...

One of the more pernicious effects of constant communication through technology is the magnified anxiety over a system failure when people manage to talk face-to-face: a limp handshake, a joke that ...

While most one year olds may only utter a couple of words, Air New Zealand’s chatbot Bravo Oscar Tango (Oscar for short) is having a staggering 1,000 conversations on average each day as he marks his ...