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Siri, originally created as a stand-alone App Store app by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer, and Tom Gruber, was bought by Apple and integrated into iOS 5 for the iPhone 4s launch in 2011.

A digital assistant with sequential inference and context awareness, Siri answers questions and executes commands not in a vacuum but in relation to whatever questions and commands came before. As Siri to find you a Starbucks and it will pull up a list of locations close to where you are. Ask for directions and it knows Starbucks is where you want to go and brings up the best route to get you there.

Apple has been steadily increasing Siri’s abilities as well. The company has added partnerships with OpenTable and Fandango so you can plan dinner and a movie. It’s also been tied into sports results, entertainment information, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, and more. Most recently, Apple added “Hey Siri” for hands-free voice activation when your device is plugged in, streaming voice-to-text so dictation happens while you’re talking, and integration with CarPlay and HomeKit so you can not only drive safer but control your house with a word.

Siri also boasts industry-leading language accuracy in English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Korean, and Spanish, and has additional languages now in beta, including Russian, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

There are still a lot of things Siri doesn’t do, however, including “Google Now”-style predictive assistance — sifting through your data and crunching it on the cloud to try and anticipate your needs and present reminders and help in advance. It’s hard to see that part changing in the near term, since Apple currently believes they shouldn’t be aggregating and manipulating your personal data on their servers.

What else would you want to see from Siri in iOS 9?

• On-device voice-parsing to avoid having to go online for local commands like “set alarm”.
• “Hey Siri” alternatives for multi-iOS device homes. (Read more)
• “Hey Siri” option for when not plugged in. (With battery life warning.)
• “Send ETA” to message your estimated time of arrival during navigation.
• Return of “Rise to Speak” for Siri.
• Text input so you can access Siri results via Sportlight. (Read more)
• Siri “Faces”-informed search so you can find photos of your kids.
• Sir for Mac
• Siri API for developers. (Read more)

The Apple Watch is going to have Siri as well. Increasingly, it will be an interface through which we control and communicate with all the technology in our daily lives. So, if Apple asked you what you’d like to see in Siri for iOS 9, what would you say?

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Spacetime Studios has announced their next game — Call of the Champions!

Creators of hit mobile MMORPGs like Arcane Legends and Pocket Legends, Spacetime Studios says Call of Champions will be a free-to-play MOBA-themed fantasy game and, what’s more, it will be released for the iPhone and iPad sometime this year.

In the Call of Champions arena, players will be able to control one out of over twenty different Champions across five distinct classes, each coming equipped with their own unique playstyle and special abilities. Players will be immersed in a fiction that takes place in a time beyond the cosmos as they take on the role of a godlike entity that controls Champions in the arena for sport.

Call of Champions is a next-generation MOBA designed for competitive gamers with tablets and mobile devices. Matches have a 5-minute limit in order to deliver exhilarating action and swift outcomes in each session while enabling players to enjoy quick games on the go. With competition in mind, Call of Champions features an expansive social toolset for players to recruit team members, plan matches, earn achievements and loot through the Call of Champions social hub, plus view or broadcast matches live.

Spacetime Studios will show off Call of Champions next week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. People who attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas from March 13-15 will also be able to get some hands-on time with the game before it’s officially launched.

Windows Central has learned that Microsoft plans to release another over-the-air update for its Lumia 535 smartphone sometime in the next few days. The update has been designed to fix a persistent touchscreen sensitivity issue that some owners of the smartphone have encountered.

Everyone’s favorite build-your-own furniture store IKEA has just announced a partnership to start integrating Qi charging for devices into some of its furniture. Starting in April 2015, IKEA will offer bedside tables, lamps and desks with Qi charging built in, meaning you won’t need to drop any extra cables or charging bases to keep your phones topped up.

With an updated design and support for Android, iOS, and Windows, Acer is hoping the Liquid Leap+ will take off.

With the original Liquid Leap Smart Activeband barely leaving shelves, Acer has decided their wearable plan needed a refresh. Today at Mobile World Conference, the company has revealed their plans for an updated version of their first wearable. It’s being called the Liquid Leap+, and chief among the features Acer is hoping will excite users is support for the three largest mobile operating systems in what they call an “OS agnostic” approach to the market.

Three new Android Lollipop models have joined Acer’s lineup, boasting Magic Selfie software and stylish hardware.

This year at Mobile World Congress, Acer is unveiling a trio of smartphones aimed squarely at the same markets the company has been focused on for the last couple of years, which is to say budget focused European tiers of smartphones. The new Liquid Z220 and Liquid Z520 are breathing new life into the Liquid Z-series with the addition of quad-core processors and new textile patterns on the casing, while the new Liquid Jade Z focused on a higher tier through the use of a 64-bit processor and a new Zero Air Gap display. The one big thing all three phones have in common is lots of Acer-made software and new features that focus on selfies and media consumption.

With an updated design and support for Android, iOS, and Windows, Acer is hoping the Liquid Leap+ will take off.

With the original Liquid Leap Smart Activeband barely leaving shelves, Acer has decided their wearable plan needed a refresh. Today at Mobile World Conference, the company has revealed their plans for an updated version of their first wearable. It’s being called the Liquid Leap+, and chief among the features Acer is hoping will excite users is support for the three largest mobile operating systems in what they call an “OS agnostic” approach to the market.

With an updated design and support for Android, iOS, and Windows, Acer is hoping the Liquid Leap+ will take off.

With the original Liquid Leap Smart Activeband barely leaving shelves, Acer has decided their wearable plan needed a refresh. Today at Mobile World Conference, the company has revealed their plans for an updated version of their first wearable. It’s being called the Liquid Leap+, and chief among the features Acer is hoping will excite users is support for the three largest mobile operating systems in what they call an “OS agnostic” approach to the market.

While the name sounds as though Acer has made a trivial update to the original, the Liquid Leap+ is noticeably different from its predecessor. The band design has been updated to better fit the curvature of the wrist, and Acer has made the band user replaceable. While there are only a handful of color options for users to swap between at launch, there’s potential for quite a bit of personalization.

A platform-independent Bluetooth 4.0 LE experience means Acer controls everything, which is both good and bad. The 1″ OLED touchscreen is built to offer things like fitness tracking and media playback, but that means you’ll only get a handful of notification types delivered to your wrist. The big focus is on the classics – email, calendar, SMS, and music controls – while the fitness side of things tracks steps, distance, and calories. Because the core is IPX7 rated, you’ll be able to wear it in just about any kind of water without damaging the device.

Acer plans to make the Liquid Leap+ available in Europe for €79 starting in March, with the Leap Manager app available in the Google Play Store, App Store, and Windows Store now.