Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone

Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone: "The cool voice assistant that runs on the iPhone 4S? Years ago, someone thought what Apple calls Siri would be a valuable tool for the military. Come to think of it, most of the technology we use — whether to cook our food, figure out directions, or gawk at adorable pictures of animals — was in some way designed to help, however tangentially, America go to war."