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    • Google's Lookout app, which can help blind/visually impaired users identify objects, text, and people around them, is now available for Pixel phones in the US (Abner Li/9to5Google)

    Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google’s Lookout app, which can help blind/visually impaired users identify objects, text, and people around them, is now available for Pixel phones in the US  —  One of the more impressive announcements that Google made at I/O 2018 was “Lookout.”  This app helps the visually impaired … Google's Lookout app, which

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    • IBM, other companies are using Creative Commons Flickr photos to train facial recognition software without the consent of people in the photos for that purpose (Olivia Solon/NBC News)

    Olivia Solon / NBC News: IBM, other companies are using Creative Commons Flickr photos to train facial recognition software without the consent of people in the photos for that purpose  —  People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.

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    Finally, An Open Source Calculator

    Microsoft has released the code for the Calculator app. This move is the latest in Microsoft’s efforts to capitalize on the Open Source community. Previous efforts have been the Open Sourcing of an extremely old version of DOS, and shoehorning Linux into Windows somehow in a way that’s marginally more user-friendly than spinning up a

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    Hackaday Meetup: Vietnam

    Hackaday is hosting a meetup in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Sunday, March 24th. We’d love to see you there! Sean Boyce lives in HCMC — you’ve likely enjoyed several of his articles detailing some of the culture, like keeping track of your scooter when parking in busy areas, and squashing myths about the

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    • Alphabet's Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out "toxic" comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Disqus using its Perspective AI (Alfred Ng/CNET)

    Alfred Ng / CNET: Alphabet’s Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out “toxic” comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Disqus using its Perspective AI  —  The comments sections of websites bring out the best and worst of the internet — engaging insights are often found right next to enraging insults. Alphabet's Jigsaw

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    • Chrome 73 for desktops starts rolling out with Mac Dark Mode support and begins testing Auto Picture-in-Picture for "installed" Progressive Web Apps (Abner Li/9to5Google)

    Abner Li / 9to5Google: Chrome 73 for desktops starts rolling out with Mac Dark Mode support and begins testing Auto Picture-in-Picture for “installed” Progressive Web Apps  —  The latest release of Google Chrome is rolling out today for Mac, Windows, and Linux.  On desktops, Chrome 73 introduces … Chrome 73 for desktops starts rolling out

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    • Hands-on with Twitter's new prototype app twttr, its color-coded replies, hidden engagements, and more, with comparisons to Twitter's public iOS app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Hands-on with Twitter’s new prototype app twttr, its color-coded replies, hidden engagements, and more, with comparisons to Twitter’s public iOS app  —  Yesterday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated prototype application to the first group of testers.  We’ve now gotten our hands … Hands-on with Twitter's new prototype app twttr, its color-coded

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    • YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in India, joining Google Play Music and Google Play Movies as well as Spotify (Gaurav Shukla/NDTV Gadgets 360)

    Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in India, joining Google Play Music and Google Play Movies as well as Spotify  —  YouTube Music (ad-supported), YouTube Music Premium (ad-free), YouTube Premium (ad-free) have been launched in India. YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in

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