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You can now make Alexa your default assistant on Android

Android phones allow for greater flexibility with voice assistants than Apple’s iPhone, giving you the freedom to pick the specific helper that answers the call whenever you give the home button a long press. Alternatives like Microsoft’s Cortana were already available to play with — but now, Amazon’s Alexa is in the mix, too. Enlarge Image Android users can now swap Alexa …

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Microsoft’s Nadella thinks AI can improve tech for people with disabilities

For years, technology features for people with disabilities have felt like an afterthought. Microsoft is hoping to change that. The tech giant announced Monday a $25 million, five-year program to encourage software and device developers to design products using artificial intelligence that are aimed at the disabled community. Think apps that describe what people see, better text-to-speech technology and predictive text …

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