The software, called interpreter mode, lets people carry on a conversation while speaking different languages. Google Assistant's language interpreter tool comes to phones – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you parent a toddler, you already know that having an arsenal of snacks while traveling is Of The Utmost Importance. Snacks stave off hanger tantrums, they give you flexibility if your food options are limited and, if you’re flying, the swallowing can help combat middle ear pressure during take-offs and landings. Read more… This
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Interpreter mode, the feature that allows Google Assistant to translate your conversations in real time, is coming to phones. Google says it will work with 44 languages and can be invoked by saying commands like “Hey Google, help me speak Thai” or “Hey Google, be my German translator.”
Read MoreRed Pocket Mobile’s plan includes unlimited everything and 5GB of high-speed data. Cheap phone service: Get a full year for 5 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle shows off Project Glass at I/O 2012 To tell the story of the last 10 years at Google, it helps to look at the products that no longer exist. The decade started with Wave (launched 9/09, deprecated 8/10), then Buzz (launched 2/10, deprecated 10/11). There was also a Wikipedia clone called Knol (launched 8/08,
Read More{$inline_image} Reuters: Report: Samsung to increase investment in its chip factory in China by $8B to boost production of NAND flash memory chips — SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics will increase investment at its chip factory in China by $8 billion to boost production of NAND flash memory chips, Chinese media reported on Tuesday. Report:
Read MoreJ.J. Abrams will introduce new footage from the upcoming movie on the video game’s platform. How to watch Fortnite's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker event – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe service now can preserve details it used to wipe out in an effort to shrink file sizes. Twitter relaxes photo limits so those detailed shots look better – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSocial media manipulation and ad library problems raise questions about their investments. The Technology 202: U.K. elections provide key test for American tech companies’ efforts to fight disinformation Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe numbers don’t lie: Tons of people are ditching their desktops and laptops, and watching porn straight from their phones, or so suggest the figures from the internet‘s most visited adult entertainment platform, Pornhub. The site’s annual data review reveals that 76.6 percent of users consume smut via their phones. That’s a 5-percent increase compared to 2018’s
Read MoreAh, the holidays—a time for celebration, family, and garbage. Lots of garbage. Lots of decorative garbage that lasts for up to a month or a day before meeting its end in the trash. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans churned through over five million Christmas trees in 2017 alone. And Earth911… Read more…
Read MoreImage: Marvel Studios Dread it, run from it — destiny arrives all the same Continue reading… Like it or not, the Marvel empire redefined cinema this decade Source: New feed
Read MoreIn this image from December 2000, the Expedition One crew–the first to permanently inhabit the International Space Station–are about to eat a treat of fresh oranges. A Treat for the International Space Station's First Crew Source: NASA
Read MoreSix example images that fool AI from the ObjectNet dataset. | Image: MIT Machine vision has been one of the biggest success stories of the AI boom, enabling everything from automated medical scans to self-driving cars. But while the accuracy of all-seeing algorithms has improved massively, these systems can still be confused by images that
Read MorePhoto by Chris Welch / The Verge Robocalls have become unavoidable, flooding phone networks with spam so thoroughly that most people have stopped picking up calls from unknown numbers. It’s a massive and embarrassing technological failure, but the causes behind the problem are more complex than you might think. The biggest problems are baked into
Read MoreGlitch wants to do for web apps what YouTube did for videos, Flickr and Imgur did for pictures, and Twitter did for bad opinions: make them easy to create, share, and embed, and give them the chance to reach the right audience or even go viral. I talked to CEO Anil Dash about Glitch, his
Read MoreFacebook provides 100,000 AI-manipulated videos for researchers to develop better deepfake detection systems. Facebook, Microsoft, AWS: We want you to take up the deepfake detection challenge Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe Your Phone app is not just for Samsung Galaxy phones and Windows Insiders anymore. Windows 10 Your Phone app: Now all Android users can make calls from their PC Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreHere’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big brain and your long life. Courtesy of our primate ancestors that invented cooking over a million years ago, you are a member of the one species able to afford so many cortical neurons in
Read MoreThe New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) wants to update its contentious BitLicense, which regulates cryptocurrency businesses based in or serving customers in the Big Apple. Proposed changes include publishing a list of approved assets on the NYDFS website. Any licensed digital asset provider would be allowed to offer these as long as it
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Are you tired of cords, but too stingy to shell out the big bucks for good wireless headphones? No worries, we’ve got just the deal for you. JBL’s wireless T450BT cans are now only $24.95 — a massive 58-percent discount
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today we’re going to talk about Jack Dorsey’s surprise tweetstorm about potentially decentralizing the service — but first, some history. Death came to the Twitter developer community on August 12th, 2012. In an infamous memo, the company’s head of product divided potential uses of the Twitter API into
Read MoreHackers will do anything to get their hands on Bitcoin. In Texas, US, extortionists managed to breach home security cameras to demand cryptocurrency from an unsuspecting couple. Tania Amador, a 28-year-old who lives in Grand Prarie just outside Dallas, gave a video to local news which reportedly showed that her Ring security system had been
Read MoreAlex Konrad / Forbes: Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival — On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire … Profile
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