Samsung really doesn't want you to mess with the Galaxy S8's Bixby button

Samsung's digital assistant Bixby is here to help, whether or not you want it to. 

In fact, Samsung is so sure that you're going to love the groundbreaking power of Bixby that it preemptively blocked users' ability to decouple the service from one of the phone's few actual buttons. 

The Galaxy S8 voice assistant—which won't even be available on the day of the phone's launch thanks to unspecified delays—allows customers to speak to their phone and ask it to do things like arrange rides or set up calendar invites. Eventually, the hope is that Bixby can be the voice interface for all of Samsung's various consumer products ("Bixby, please microwave this burrito.") Read more...