Siri may be feeling a little job insecurity. The sometimes droll assistant that answers questions and helps people manage their lives on Apple’s iPhone and iPad is facing competition from an up-and-coming rival made by Google.

The duel began with the release of a free iPhone and iPad app that features Google Now, a technology that performs many of the

Security researchers have identified 32 apps on Google Play that harbour the bug called BadNews. A security firm Lookout, which uncovered BadNews, said that the malicious program lays dormant on handsets for weeks to escape detection.

The malware targeted

Glass, which Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin have spent the better part of year perfecting, is widely seen as the search engine giant’s next big project. The search engine giant announced earlier this year that it could host

But the Pixel isn’t very practical – at least not yet – for