Siri Doesn't Know There's A Women's World Cup Going On

Apple’s intelligent personal assistant appears to be a bit soccer-ignorant.

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The United States Women's National Soccer team will take the field at 8:00 P.M. eastern time tonight against Sweden. The match is at Winnipeg Stadium in Winnipeg, Canada. The match will be shown on FOX, NBC Universo, NBCDeportes.com. I retreived this information by visiting the USWNT's splendid website. I had to go there (I didn't feel like giving my web traffic to the fine, upstanding people of FIFA) because my trusted iPhone assistant, Siri didn't know anything about the game. In fact, she's not even familiar with the Women's World Cup.

It started innocently enough:

No information, eh? Something about this doesn't smell right. Crestfallen but undeterred, I figured it must be a soccer thing. Siri's voice reveals little about her geographic origins ... perhap's she's just a soccer-ignorant American. So I inquired:

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