reporter brian chen created an experiment.asked the virtual assistants to complete 16 tasks in categories like music, productivity, travel and commuting, dining, entertainment and sports. >> apple was really good at productivity things like calendar and e-mail. google is much better at commute related tasks like mapping. microsoft was pretty mediocre across the board and alexa which is really, really good at music so despite them all claiming they're all pretty good at everything, they're all pretty focused and concentrated on certain tackles. >> reporter: so we decided to conduct our own experiment putting three virtual assistants up against each other with one of chen's questions about the super bowl. >> hey, siri, who was playing in the super bowl. >> super bowl 50 will be played on february 7. >> but she didn't say who. now we're going to test cortana. who is playing in the super bowl? >> so this basically came up with a searchern option okay, google. >> denver broncos take on the carolina panthers. >> we got our answer. m

so new york times personal technology reporter brian chen created an experiment- sot chen and i thought, 'what are some really, really obvious basic questions to ask each of these and how can we see how they perform each of those tasks?' (gfx) he asked the virtual assistants to complete 16 tasks -- in categories like music, productivity, travel and commuting, dining, entertainment and sports. sot chen (we can do some really cool graphic stuff with this bite) 17;46;43;57 all four of the assistance promised to deliver the same things. but it turns out each of them was really good at a specific thing. apple was really good at productivity things email. google was much better at commute-related tasks like mapping. microsoft was actually pretty mediocre across the board. and alexa was just really, really good at music. so despite them all claiming that they're really good at everything,they're all pretty focused and concentrated on certain tasks. so we decided to conduct our own experiment-- putting 3 virtual assistants up against each other with one of chen's questions- about the super bowl

microsoft has cortana and amazon, alexa so technology reporter brian chen created an experiment. he asked the virtual assistants to complete 16 tasks in categories like music, productivity, travel and commuting, dining, entertainment and sports. >> apple was really good at productivity things like calendar and e-mail. google is much better at commute related tasks like mapping. microsoft was actually pretty alexa is really good at music so despite them all claiming they're pretty good at everything they're all pretty focused and concentrated on certain tasks. >> reporter: so we decided to conduct our own experiment putting three virtual assistants up against each other with one of chen's questions. about the super bowl. >> hey, siri, who is playing in the super bowl? >> super bowl 50 will be played on february 7th. >> reporter: but she didn't say who so now we test cortana. who is playing in the super bowl? so this basically came up with a search option, okay, google -- >> denver broncos will take on the carolina panthers. >> reporter: we got our answer. google tells us it's grad

brian is in new york. bloomberg reporter chen.ce you got up so early, i want to thank you for that. tell me about what is happening in terms of the regional expansion of alibaba. >> well, on the whole, it was a solid quarter for them. you say their revenue grow by a third, beating estimates. profits doubled. the mobile rates were a highlight. more than 68% of the company transactions. in terms of expanding in rural areas, the company did grow in 12,000 rural villages. still a long way to go. but they have held to their promise, which is that they are expanding in china and also tapping into that growth for middle class chinese consumers moving up the valley chain. >> interesting. brian, when you looked at this quarter, we talked on bloomberg radio this morning, but tell me sort of your big takeaway. you've had plenty of time to look at this now. >> absolutely. it was a great quarter for alibaba. it really pushed against the prevailing sentiment and the prevailing mood around china. we saw growth across the alibaba businesses. i th

samuel chen 4th grade "we all try to make it the best it can be, so when we actually figure it out, we try to make it even better than that." ((brian one bot briefly malfunctioned. ((brian loftus)) we witnessed students interacting with teachers, and volunteer high-schoolers from coronado, to work through the problem together. they quickly found a fix. collin moxley 5th grade "learning how to program it with the software can effect you to understand actual programming." stacy carpenter co-chair of robotics club "it's a huge learning curve for all of us the teachers and the students, and they've really run with it, and i've just been proud of them for persevering and working through the failures and attempts that havent worked....they're coming along!" ((brian loftus)) this is another example of kids so engaged with the material, so excited about a project...that school becomes fun! collin moxley 5th grade "where else in school do you get to play with legos!" demi lira 5th grade brian: "what is the thing the robot is doing that you're most proud of?" demi: "ugh....that it's actually working!" ((laughing)) ((brian loftus)) and that's

samuel chen 4th grade "we all try to make it the best it can be, so when we actually figure it out, we try to make it even better than that." )) ((brian loftus)) > if you know something that's cool at school just head to las vegas now dot com.. click on "sections" in the upper left corner .. and cool at school will be under the "community" tab. or send us an email... cool at school at las vegas now dot com. ((brian loftus)) ((kirsten ((sherry swensk)) clouds will close out our saturday evening... so temps will cool off slowly. we're near 50 degrees now... and then we'll cool off more quickly overnight after the clouds shift east of the area and clear skies greet us for sunday morning. ............... outside the valley... temps right now also close to 50 degrees in pahrump... down to primm and up to mesquite. laughlin in the upper 50s. .............. we were farther off the mark of normal today with that thick deck of clouds. highs officially just up to 53... and the normal afternoon high is 58. our start at 40 for a morning low was slightly above the norm the sun hasn't been down long... but we didn't get to see much

samuel chen 4th grade "we all try to make it the best it can be, so when we actually figure it out, we try to make it even better than that." ((brian loftus)) briefly malfunctioned. ((brian loftus)) we witnessed students interacting with teachers, and volunteer high-schoolers from coronado, to work through the problem together. they quickly found a fix. collin moxley 5th grade "learning how to program it with the software can effect you to understand actual programming." stacy carpenter co-chair of robotics club "it's a huge learning curve for all of us the teachers and the students, and they've really run with it, and i've just been proud of them for persevering and working through the failures and attempts that havent worked....they're coming along!" ((brian loftus)) this is another example of kids so engaged with the material, so excited about a project...that school becomes fun! collin moxley 5th grade "where else in school do you get to play with legos!" demi lira 5th grade brian: "what is the thing the robot is doing that you're most proud of?" demi: "ugh....that it's actually working!" ((laughing)) ((brian loftus)) and that'

samuel chen 4th grade "we all try to make it the best it can be, so when we actually figure it out, we try to make it even better than that." ((brian loftus)) while we were there, one bot briefly malfunctioned. ((brian loftus)) we witnessed students interacting with teachers, and volunteer high-schoolers from coronado, to work through the problem together. they quickly found a fix. collin moxley 5th grade "learning how to program it with the software can effect you to understand actual programming." stacy carpenter co-chair of robotics club "it's a huge learning curve for all of us the teachers and the students, and they've really run with it, and i've just been proud of them for persevering and working through the failures and attempts that havent worked....they're coming along!" ((brian loftus)) this is another example of kids so engaged with the material, so excited about a project...that school becomes fun! collin moxley 5th grade "where else in school do you get to play with legos!" demi lira 5th grade brian: "what is the thing the robot is doing that you're most proud of?" demi: "ugh....that it's actually working!" ((laughing

samuel chen 4th grade "we all try to make it the best it can be, so when we actually figure it out, we try to make it even better than that." ((brian loftus)) while we were there, one bot briefly malfunctioned. ((brian loftus)) we witnessed students interacting with high-schoolers from coronado, to work through the problem together. they quickly found a fix. collin moxley 5th grade "learning how to program it with the software can effect you to understand actual programming." stacy carpenter co-chair of robotics club "it's a huge learning curve for all of us the teachers and the students, and they've really run with it, and i've just been proud of them for persevering and working through the failures and attempts that havent worked....they're coming along!" ((brian loftus)) this is another example of kids so engaged with the material, so excited about a project...that school becomes fun! collin moxley 5th grade "where else in school do you get to play with legos!" demi lira 5th grade brian: "what is the thing the robot is doing that you're most proud of?" demi: "ugh....that it's actually working!" ((laughing)) ((brian loftus)) and