Shelly Palmer

Siri for travel, Desti, launches iPad app in public beta giving users their own “smart travel guide”

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SRI International has produced some remarkable technologies over the years, with the more recent notables including Siri, Trapit, Nuance, and many others. On Friday, another one of Siri’s siblings launches into public beta and it hopes to help make travel planning and discovery much smarter. Desti is calling itself the smartest travel guide available for the iPad. Since 2011, this startup has utilized similar artificial intelligence technology similar to Siri, but instead of being all-knowing about everything, it’s focused on one vertical: travel. Read the full story at The Next Web.