You'll see Amazon's Alexa infiltrate the New York Toy Fair as toymakers figure out how to use the digital assistant to add new sound experiences to games. Bridget Carey is an award-winning reporter ...

Winona Assistant Fire Chief Joel Corcoran holds up the toy fire truck named after him by Lark Toys at the Winona Central Fire Department. "To have something like this is really, really cool," Corcoran ...

Virtual assistants at a tipping point. Image source: Pixabay. Aristotle virtual assistant for children. Image source: Mattel. Not to be outdone by big tech, Mattel (NASDAQ: MAT) is creating a ...

While Microsoft has made its voice-driven Cortana assistant available across Windows 10 devices, Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo is porting its own helper to a different kind of hardware—a toy ...

WINONA, Minn. (AP) - As a kid, Joel Corcoran was amazed by fire trucks. Today, after nearly 20 years with the Winona Fire Department, he still thinks the vehicles are “pretty neat.” The newly ...

Big technology companies have been making headlines in the virtual personal-assistant market. The entrance of some unexpected companies indicates we might be at a tipping point. Traditional toy makers ...