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Accessibility tech has a lot of unfinished business to get right

When Apple’s iPhone was released in 2007, Erin Lauridsen was frustrated. As someone who’s blind, she was worried mobile phone tech would leave people with disabilities behind.  Thankfully, with the iPhone 3GS two years later, it offered VoiceOver, a screen reading technology that’s part of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Ten years later, Lauridsen uses her iPhone XR, along with free or low-cost …

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Sonos launches Google Assistant on Sonos One and Beam speakers today

Google Assistant will finally come to the Sonos One smart speaker and Sonos Beam sound bar, which already support Amazon Alexa, making the company the first to support multiple assistants on one device. Sonos demonstrated the voice assistant on its One speaker at CES 2019 , and is in the process of rolling out firmware enabling Google’s voice system on its smart speakers in the United States …

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