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Amazon updates $50 Fire 7 tablet with faster processor, more storage

We always thought Amazon’s entry-level tablet, the Fire 7 ($50, £50), was a good value, particularly when it was discounted by $10 or even $15 during flash sales. Now Amazon is updating it with a faster processor and bumping the base storage from 8GB to 16GB. The “all-new” Fire 7 is available for preorder now and will ship June 7. The …

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Google’s Live Transcribe will now show when dogs are barking

Google has added sound events to its Live Transcribe app, which it said will help the hearing impaired become more immersed in the audio world. Live Transcribe will now transcribe not only speech, but also sounds like dogs barking, door-knocks, applause, laughter, music, whistling and passing cars, thanks to an update of Google’s machine learning and speech recognition technology. The …

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