August, 2019

• 3 August

  Kohler’s Sensate faucet brings voice commands to the kitchen sink

  

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• 2 August

  Use your Apple Watch to check and monitor your blood pressure at home

  

  You already know how important it is to monitor your blood pressure on a daily basis if you’re worried about high blood pressure or have hypertension. If you own an Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon), you already have a good starting point for tracking your blood pressure at home. Daily tracking can help you establish a baseline for your version …

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• 2 August

  Apple hits pause on Siri review process that had workers listen to recordings

  

  Apple is suspending its Siri grading process globally while it conducts a review. The move comes after a report last week in  The Guardian said a team of contractors around the world listens to a random, small subset of the recordings Siri hears after people push its activation button or say “Hey Siri,” to check the voice assistant’s accuracy and response. Apple …

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• 2 August

  There’s a privacy explanation for why Apple doesn’t let you delete Siri recordings

  

  Apple’s reputation for respecting privacy was called into question last week with news that contractors listen to Siri recordings. That sparked an understandable clamor for better control over voice data collected by the digital assistant. If you own an Apple product, you might want the option to delete your recordings from the company’s database.  Here’s the rub: Apple can’t delete …

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• 2 August

  AI now can spot fake news generated by AI

  

  Researchers at Harvard University and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have created a tool to help combat the spread of misinformation. The tool, called GLTR (for Giant Language Model Test Room), uses artificial intelligence to detect the very statistical text patterns that give AI away, according to the team’s June report.  GLTR highlights words in the text based on the …

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• 2 August

  Galaxy Book S leak appears to show a new Samsung laptop

  

  Samsung may be working on a new Windows laptop. Images of a purported Galaxy Book S, shared Friday by reporter and frequent Twitter leaker Evan Blass, show a thin laptop with few ports. The images also show its keyboard and trackpad in a somewhat grey-purple color. The laptop appears to have a USB Type-C port on the left edge and …

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• 2 August

  Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp and plans to make that obvious

  

  Facebook plans to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp so users know they’re from the social network, a move that highlights how the company is exerting more control over its acquisitions. The apps will say “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook.” “We want to be clearer about the products and services that are part of Facebook,” Bertie Thomson, a Facebook spokeswoman, …

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• 2 August

  Sprint’s subscriber losses show why it needs T

  

  Sprint received the the green light from the Justice Department for its $26.5 billion merger with T-Mobile last week, and after today, it’s clear why it needs the deal to happen.  On Friday, the fourth-largest carrier posted a fiscal first-quarter loss of 175,000 total subscribers, a reverse of the gain of 57,000 net new subscribers in the year-ago period. In …

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• 2 August

  Verizon’s 4 new unlimited plans come with a surprising price cut

  

  As 5G continues to expand, Verizon’s unlimited plans are getting an update. On Friday, the nation’s largest carrier announced that it would be doing away with its current Go, Above and Beyond unlimited plans in favor of four replacements: an entry-level Start Unlimited, Play More Unlimited, Do More Unlimited and high-end Get More Unlimited. The plans become available on Monday.  All …

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• 2 August

  YouTube Premium 1080p downloads are Android

  

  You’ll soon be able to step up your offline mobile viewing on YouTube Premium from 720p HD to real HD. Google confirmed to us on Friday that it’s started to roll it out the ability to download 1080p video for offline viewing to Android and iOS users “in most Premium markets with more to come soon.”   Android Police noted back in …

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