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September 16, 2015 02:04 pm GMT

The new Hello Barbie is like Siri trapped in a doll's body

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Barbie has been a lot of things over the years — a rock star, a doctor, a teacher — and more recently, she’s been interested in tech

You may recall her recent book, Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer, which encouraged young girls to learn more about computer science, but it was widely deemed sexist; Barbie accidentally gives her sister Skipper a computer virus and has to rely on her two male friends to fix the issue

But Mattel isn't backing down on embracing the tech world. Its latest doll, Hello Barbie ($75), is due out in early November, and her key feature is something we've become accustomed to in recent years: voice-recognition software. Yes, that's right: Barbie comes with Siri-like capabilities that let kids to have actual conversations with Barbie Read more...

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