We’re using our phone cameras to photograph a lot more than friends and flowers. It’s good for taking pictures of restaurant receipts, shopping lists, maps and other documents whose information we want tucked away in our pockets and cloud storage systems. Which is why Microsoft just updated its free Pix camera app for iOS to …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Yes, he did. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When you’re launching a new product, you have to stir emotions. But when you’re launching three phones and a watch, you’ve got to find different ways of making them all seem exciting. At Apple’s big event, there …
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In a management shuffle at Apple, Craig Federighi, the head of software, is now also in charge of the company’s Siri team, according to his bio on the tech giant’s site. With the new responsibility, Federighi takes over Siri from Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services. “Craig oversees the development of iOS, MacOS, and Siri,” Federighi’s …
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Samsung’s crammed tons of features into its newest smartwatches, but one thing is missing: its Bixby voice assistant. Samsung introduced its new Gear Sport smartwatch and Gear Fit 2 Pro, which are waterproof enough for swimming in the ocean, at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin on Wednesday. Both have GPS and can automatically detect and track what fitness …
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Another big name in Japanese technology is apparently quitting the phone industry. Fujitsu is reported to be looking to offload its smartphone business to spend more time on artificial intelligence and the internet of things. Nikkei reports that Lenovo and Foxconn may swoop in for Fujitsu’s mobile phone unit, which has had success in Japan with the Raku-Raku feature phone …
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I remember my roommate, way back in 1986, laboriously stringing together phonemes with Apple‘s Macintalk software to get his Mac to utter a few sentences. It was pioneering at the time — anybody else remember the Talking Moose’s jokes? But boy, have things improved since then. Publishing a new round of papers on its new machine learning journal, Apple showed …
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Are you a big spender or a thirty consumer when it comes to your phone? We break down the pros and cons of two of the hottest Android phones, the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the OnePlus 5. Despite the price difference, the phones are pretty competitive, which made for a lively debate. Also, would you pay extra to ride in …
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Facebook Messenger bots are used for everything from ordering food to reading news to booking flights. In the hands of crisis-mapping platform Ushahidi, they’re also monitoring election-related violence. Tuesday is election day in Kenya, which in a year of critical elections around the globe might make it seem like just another day. But it’s not. Presidential elections in Kenya — …
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Facebook is about to get even more social. The social media site is apparently working on a device specifically for video chatting, according to Bloomberg. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the product will be a 13- or 15-inch touchscreen with a wide-angle camera, microphones. It will also have some artificial intelligence technology baked in, so the cameras can automatically …
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A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language. Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network’s AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on their own: Bob: “I can can I I everything …
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