Google Now turns Siri on after being prodded by Alexa in virtual threesome

Why just use one voice assistant when you can get Amazon's Alexa to command Google's Now to activate Apple's Siri? This voice-assistant three-way was enabled by using Amazon's recently released Alexa voice-command system, which the company hopes will help developers insert its voice assistant (made popular in the US by Amazon's Echo intelligent speaker) into their new products. Whether Amazon envisioned them being used to talk to competitor products, we'll never know. Enterprising developer Leon Nicholls used a Raspberry Pi loaded with the Amazon Alexa Skills Kit to talk to an Amazon Echo asking it to ask Google how to enable Apple's "Hey Siri" feature on the iPhone. Alexa did as she was commanded, asking a Google Nexus 6P how to enable Hey Siri.