If Siri is a Virtual Assistant, Winston is Your Personal News Anchor

If you’ve ever wanted to have Siri do more than just respond to requests, check out this video. It’s an early demo of Winston, a new conversational assistant which was developed by Aaron Ting and Jarod Stewart. Have you ever wanted to your own personal assistant follow you around and keep you up to date on news, that’s Winston.

Winston finds the news you want to hear by pulling to from your social networks, reader apps, and elsewhere.