Microsoft released a test version of its Edge browser for MacOS on Monday, 16 years after competition from Apple’s own Safari led it to stop developing Internet Explorer for the Mac. Edge for MacOS is available on the Microsoft Edge Insider site, but so far only in the very rough Canary version that changes rapidly …
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Voice-activated digital assistants like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa make trivial tasks like playing your favorite song as simple as saying a few words. But for people like Giovanni Caggioni, who has Down syndrome and congenital cataracts, which makes him blind and unable to speak, these tools are inaccessible without some of sort of augmented hack. Caggioni, 21, loves music …
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Google is keeping a list of your online purchases, thanks to confirmation emails being sent to your Gmail account. As discovered by CNBC, Gmail users can click to see a list of their transactions, which goes back at least five years. “Only you can see your purchases,” Google says on the page. “Google protects your privacy and security.” Though Google …
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Chinese tech giant Huawei says its blacklisting by the US will harm jobs, industry and economics in the states. “This decision is in no one’s interest,” Huawei said in a statement Thursday. “It will do significant economic harm to the American companies with which Huawei does business, affect tens of thousands of American jobs and disrupt the current collaboration and …
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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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YouTube will amp up the content available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, with Google‘s massive video company saying its VR app will be among the launch titles for the closely watched device, which is set for release Tuesday. That’ll make YouTube one of the most widely recognizable names for people wondering what you can actually watch on an Oculus …
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Tech giants and political leaders from around the globe came together in Paris on Wednesday to pledge their commitment to tackling the spread of terrorist content online, following the attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March. In a summit hosted jointly by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google agreed …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: After you talk about something specific, an ad related to that very topic pops up on your Facebook feed. It’s uncanny, unsettling and, like most urban legends, nearly everyone has a variant of this story. Thanks to the wealth of data the mammoth social network already has on you — your location, network …
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The Huawei P30 Pro has the best camera of any Android phone, according to our testing. But how does it compare to Apple’s current flagship phone, the iPhone XS Max? With the P30 Pro’s Leica quad-camera array, it has the benefit of being able to see both really far into the distance with a 5x optical or 10x hybrid zoom, …
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Google’s security key has a bug. On Wednesday, Google issued a warning about its Titan Security Key, specifically the Bluetooth edition of the device. The key has a security bug in how it pairs with a device over Bluetooth, and how that pairing is authenticated. A nearby attacker could rename any Bluetooth device with the Titan Security Key’s name and …
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