Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority If you live outside the US, you’ve probably hit this problem with Google Assistant and smart speakers more than once: Getting voice recognition to understand a very local person or town name is an exercise in frustration. You try to pronounce it the native way, then you try
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Read MoreFor those that don’t know, Gaggia is a company that produces a line of affordable “entry-level” espresso coffee makers that offer good quality consumer espresso machines at reasonable prices. The entry level machines don’t offer fine grained control over temperature, pressure and steam which is where the Gagguino project comes in. The Gagguino project is
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Read MoreAlex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: A look at the growth of esports tournaments in India, which are attracting prime-time TV audiences with both players and viewers mostly using mobile phones — Next to a primary school and a shabby playground in India’s financial capital Mumbai stands a plush four-story building that’s home to the world’s
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Read More[Fraens] has been designing a number of fantastic 3D printed machines and making great videos that demonstrate how they work. The last installment was an automatic cigarette stuffing machine, and it’s got a number of pretty complex motions, and somehow manages to get the job done. While [Fraens] usually uploads STL files for all of
Read MoreWhen it comes to building a split keyboard, you have a lot of options when it comes to the cable. Many will use a standard 3.5 mm TRRS cable, and others might use something more esoteric like RJ-45 to run between the halves. This only works if you’re using two controllers; if you only want
Read MoreFinancial Times: Altive: Xiaohongshu, considered as a Chinese equivalent to Instagram, has been valued at $10B-$16B in private markets in 2022, down from $20B in November 2021 — China’s answer to Instagram gained a $20bn valuation last year. Then the tide turned for the country’s start-ups
Read MoreJames B. Stewart / New York Times: Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry — At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their
Read MoreReuters: Blackstone to acquire a 52% stake in R Systems, a publicly traded Indian IT services company, for $359M — U.S. investment fund Blackstone Inc (BX.N) said on Thursday it would buy a 52% stake in India’s R Systems International (RSYS.NS) from the IT services company’s promoters for $359 million.
Read MoreYuki Okoshi / Nikkei Asia: China tops the US to take the top spot in research papers accepted by the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference for its 2023 event — Chinese universities, companies produce 30% of papers accepted by ISSCC — TOKYO — China has submitted the most research papers accepted …
Read MoreMany of you will have heard of the esoteric programming language Brainf**k_. It’s an example language that’s nearly impossible to use because it’s too simple. It’s basically a Turing computer in code – you can essentially put characters into an array, read them out, increment, decrement, and branch. The rest is up to you. Good
Read MorePhoto by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Donald Trump is allowed to rejoin Twitter, Elon Musk has announced. Musk justified that decision based on the results of his own personal Twitter poll. The @realDonaldTrump account and its tweets are fully visible again. Shortly after taking control of the social network, Musk said he
Read MoreReuters: Twitter reinstates Trump’s account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes to reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken” — Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …
Read MoreMicrosoft has brought back SwiftKey for iOS, one of the most popular third-party keyboards for the OS, just 45 days after announcing it was going to retire the app.
Read MoreOpen-source technology brings a world that laws and regulations are not quite prepared for. As a result, every now and then, open projects need to work around governmental regulations. In today’s news, KrakenRF team has stumbled into an arms-trafficing legal roadblock for their KrakenSDR-based passive radar code, and is currently figuring it out. There’s no
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at the dispute between FTX’s new management and Bahamian regulators over who should control the company’s assets, and how the fight may affect customers — Liquidators in the Bahamas are embroiled in a dispute with FTX over who has control over crypto assets held in the country
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter hasn’t escaped government scrutiny just yet. According to a report from Bloomberg, the US government is looking into whether Musk’s foreign investment partners have access to users’ private data on the platform. Sources close to the situation told
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