People describe the app using female pronouns. Her gender has even prompted some users to flood blogs and online forums with sexually suggestive questions for Siri such as “What are you wearing ...

One may assume that women in computer science, like those depicted on the show “Halt and Catch Fire,” were a rarity in the early ’80s, but that’s not true.

Apple's voice assistant Siri no longer defaults to the English-speaking female voice in the latest iOS beta. Instead, iOS will prompt users to choose a voice when ...