Your AI powered personal assistant for scheduling meetings. You interact with me as you would to any other person – and I'll do all the tedious email ping pong that comes along with scheduling a meeting.

If documents and photos submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission are to be believed, Samsung is prepping a new voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that looks an awful lot like a potential competitor for the Amazon Echo and the upcoming Google Home. First noticed by Ausdroid, the speaker is currently called "Scoop." It's about the same size as the Amazon Echo Dot, and judging from a brief user manual included in the filing, it seems to serve the same basic purpose: streaming music from your phone over Bluetooth, or from an external audio source via built-in audio jack. A user manual submitted to the Federal Communications Commission offers a look at the Scoop's hardware. What's less clear is whether the Scoop does anything else.

It appears Samsung is working on a competitor to Amazon Alexa and Google Home, with its own take on a voice assistant speaker, according to a filing with the US Federal Communications Commission spotted by Ausdroid. However, the FCC leak has images of a small, white speaker allegedly called the "Samsung Scoop". Documentation points to an internal microphone and Bluetooth within the speaker -- likely to take voice commands like the Amazon Alexa and connect to smartphones. Functionality isn't discussed in the filing, so it's not clear what type of commands or information the Scoop is able to serve up. Exact dimensions of the Scoop aren't known.

Tech is such a huge part of dating in 2016 – we meet mates on dating apps, we have endless forms of social media for researching and stalking our crushes, and bae is available 24/7 via text. Maybe she's jealous that you can experience love and she can't. But like we said, she's a robot. She isn't supposed to have emotions. It's time for Siri to get over her jealousy of the human connection and help us our with our dating lives.

Amazon.com is expected to release a cheaper music service exclusively for its Echo devices, according to a report from Recode. The service will cost substantially less than other subscription music services, at either 4 or 5 per month, Recode's Peter Kafka reports. Most monthly music subscriptions cost about 10 per month. Amazon declined to comment on the reports. Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos is also the owner of The Washington Post. Details on the reported service are thin, but it seems that users will be able to listen to on-demand, ad-free music through Amazon's smart-home devices.

While some of us may still marvel at the magic of Siri, we're more likely to spend 15 minutes feeling frustrated with Apple's digital assistant after trying, again, to set a reminder to DVR "Game Of Thrones." Barbra Streisand, however, is not one to let technology get the best of her. When it was brought to her attention that Siri had been pronouncing her name wrong, she handled the problem like a complete boss. Streisand explained on NPR's Weekend Edition how Siri pronounced her last name "with a soft S, like sand on the beach." She added, "I've been saying this for my whole career."

Rumors about Amazon's Spotify and Apple Music competitor are surfacing once again, and from the sounds of it, the service may launch sooner rather than later. Following a report in January from The New York Post, Recode says Amazon will launch a new music streaming service possibly as soon as September--potentially with a very interesting twist. The purported music service will feature two tiers. The first is the standard 10 per month streaming service, with all the millions of tracks that come with said services. The second possibility, however, is what Amazon is probably truly excited about.

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Barbra Streisand is really tired of people mispronouncing her name – especially Siri. Entertainment legend Barbra Streisand has a bone to pick with Apple's automated personal assistant, Siri. Streisand told NPR's Scott Simon that Siri pronounces her name wrong during an episode of "Weekend Edition Saturday." Simon demonstrated this on the air by asking Siri, "Who's the only female vocalist who's had hit records for six straight decades?" Siri responded, "Barbra Streisand," pronouncing the second "s" like a "z." "Streisand, with a soft's,' like sand on the beach," Streisand corrected exasperatedly.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it has agreed to buy Genee, a "smart" scheduling app, as the company continues its effort to embed AI in all of its digital experiences. Rajesh Jha, vice president of Microsoft's Outlook and Office 365 business, said in a blog post that the acquisition will help "further our ambition to bring intelligence into every digital experience" as it builds new Office 365 productivity capabilities and services. Powered by AI, Genee could be used to enhance Microsoft's own virtual assistant, Cortana, which competes with Alphabet's Google Now and Apple Inc.'s Siri. By reading users' emails, Cortana can track packages and set reminders based on location, and other tasks. With Genee, it would be able to automatically set up business meetings by recognizing key phrases in emails. Both Google Now and Siri can interact with calendars to coordinate meetings on command, said Mike Gualtieri, a principal analyst at Forrester Research.