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Engadget · 03/09/2021 08:05 EDT

The only Cortana-powered speaker is about to lose Cortana

Harman Kardon's Invoke was the first speaker to use Microsoft's Cortana speaker, and as it later turned out, also the last. In 2020, Microsoft said it would end consumer support for Cortana on iOS, Android and Invoke by early 2021 and use the...

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