Siri has been updated to more appropriately and consistently respond to statements involving sexual assault and abuse, Apple confirmed to ABC News. In mid-March, JAMA Internal Medicine published an article noting how personal assistant A.I.s like Siri, Cortana, S Voice and Google Now responded inconsistently and incompletely to phrases relating to abuse or sexual assault. Apple reached out to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network and made the update to Siri a few days after the article published according to ABC News. Siri's responses have been softened, saying users "may want to reach out" for available help rather than "should reach out." Siri suggests reaching out for help if you tell her you've been assaulted or abused and provides a link.

The 2016 Adobe Marketing Summit began with a challenge from Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen: "This is the experience era," he says. "Are our companies ready to compete, are we at risk of being disrupted by someone who can move faster?" Digital marketing is about to change more than it ever has, which is why Narayen's challenge, as well as the Summit's four-day lineup of 150 breakout sessions, labs and keynote talks all came down to adapting to technology. However, "adapting" doesn't just mean, "upgrading." The 2016 Summit showed that the future of marketing isn't technology for technology's sake -- it's a finessed, consumer-centric approach that prioritizes relevant and meaningful experiences.

Take note from Google, the best April Fools' Day pranks from brands are ones that make fun of itself. In an obvious spoof of its self-driving cars, Google Netherlands launched a parody video on Friday highlighting its new product: self-driving bicycles. Although the clip is simultaneously poking fun at America's car culture, self-driving innovation and the Netherland's bike culture, it's not unconceivable and could easily be the norm one day.

Like the great pulp sci-fi writers of yore, Allen Steele loves to colonize other planets. As a modern writer of so-called "hard" science fiction, he also knows the value of keeping it real. Until he published Arkwright this month -- our third Geek Book of the Week -- the Hugo award-winning Steele was probably best known for his Coyote trilogy, which focused on the hardships and unexpected encounters of Earth's first interstellar colony. Coyote was constructed as a series of stories. The tale that left the deepest impression on me had to do with one of the hibernating colonists being accidentally revived, halfway to the Coyote system.

HoloLens, Microsoft's self-contained holographic computer, arrives in developers' hands around the world today, but when they open those exquisitely designed black boxes, the devices they receive will largely be a mystery to them -- both how they work and, more importantly, what they're good for. At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft did its best to dispel the mystery, while at the same time enhancing the HoloLens mystique. SEE ALSO: HoloLens IRL: What it's like in Microsoft's version of augmented reality HoloLens certainly played a starring role this week at Build, but unlike the code demonstrations and sessions on bots (Microsoft is obsessed with bots), its Azure cloud platform and machine intelligence, HoloLens is treated like a rare beast, behind lock and key and only on display in something called the Holographic Academy and Destination Mars, a reservation-only HoloLens Experience space housed in a giant, self-contained black box. A co-production of NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory and Microsoft, the Mars experience uses HoloLens mixed reality capabilities to put you on the surface of Mars. Eventually the 30-foot square box will end up NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, but, for a few days, developers were getting tickets and lining up for the opportunity to finally strap on the HoloLens headgear and stand a few feet away from a holographic image of astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

April Fools' Day is a nightmare. Why not mix them together to create one of the worst days of an angry commuter's life? Here are some easy pranks to play on your fellow commuters for April Fools' Day. Just don't hurt anyone and try not to get arrested. Every time they slow down or stop, their horn will blow.

The destruction at the ancient city of Palmyra symbolizes the suffering of the Syrian people at the hands of the terrorist group known as Islamic State (ISIS). Palmyra was a largely Roman city located at a desert oasis on a vital crossroad, and "one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world." Its remarkable preservation highlighted an intermingling of cultures that today, as then, came to stand for the tolerance and multiculturalism that pre-conflict Syria was renowned for -- tolerance that ISIS seeks to eradicate. Early in the conflict, the area was heavily fortified. Roads and embankments were dug through the necropolises and the Roman walls, and the historic citadel defenses were upgraded.

While we're still several years away from truly autonomous cars, that doesn't mean your car can't be a little smarter about how you get from point A to point B. BMW debuted Connected, its new app for car owners that learns your habits over time and is able to predict driving directions, during Microsoft's Build developer conference Thursday. See also: Apple CarPlay is good, but it's too limited to be essential The app, which is available now for iOS users (no word on when it may be available to Android), is mostly centered around navigation. You can see estimated travel times to your next destination based on current traffic conditions and send directions from your phone to your car. Once you've arrived at your destination, the app will send directions back to your smartphone for "last mile" guidance from your parking spot to your destination. It also connects to your calendar to pull in specific locations from your schedule, which will automatically appear within the app.

Like clockwork every year, April Fools' arrives and the Internet is saturated with a gluttony of jokes from people trying to take advantage of the less fortunate. For most, it is the worst day of the year. For companies, it is the only day they get to try and be funny. From Virgin's kids class to burrito dating apps, you can bet that a few of the pranks rolling out this year are as predictable as ever. Then we heard about the island where you can escape from Donald Trump, and it gave us hope for creativity and the future of humans.

Writers who work on children's books or are looking for a unique challenge might be intrigued by Cleartext, a barebones text editor for Macs that doesn't allow you to use anything other than the 1,000 most common words in the English language. Seen by Product Hunt, Cleartext forces you to write simplistically, and if you try to type any words beyond the 1,000 most common, it will stop you in your tracks. Words like "intrigued," "challenge," necessary" and more are forbidden. If you try to type them, they will be highlighted and you'll have to type in a more common word to move on. Cleartext pulls its 1,000 words from Google's list of the 20,000 most common, featuring such classics as "you," "and," and, of course, "the."