Microsoft says Skype calls are now transcribed in “secure facilities in a small number of countries,” following a new report in The Guardian about the company’s use of contractors in China to listen to some calls to make sure the company’s transcription software is working properly. Just to be clear: Microsoft grades these Skype audio […]
Sony’s keynote at CES PlayStation division’s Jim Ryan had to share that was not already known was the PS5’s brand new logo. Sony finally revealed its newly designed PS logo for the PlayStation 5 at CES 2020 on Monday. However, it is apparent the company did not spend a lot of time, money, or effort […]
Samsung have long offered some of the fastest PCIe 3.0 based SSDs on the market, and the company is now ready to start shifting its attention to the [consumer] PCIe 4.0 market. The folks at AnandTech were able to lay eyes on Samsung’s upcoming 980 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD, and it will take full advantage […]
Facebook revealed a handful of updates it says will increase your control of political ads but stood firm on its policy to let politicians lie in ads on the social network. Facebook plans to add a new control that will let people see fewer political and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram. The feature […]
Microsoft is adding a new Walkie Talkie feature to its Microsoft Teams. Available in preview in the coming months, the feature will turn smartphones or tablets into a walkie-talkie that will work over Wi-Fi or cellular data. Microsoft is embedding the feature at the center of its navigation bar inside Microsoft Teams, suggesting that’s a […]
Bloomberg reports that Apple shipped around 3.18 million units in the Asian nation in December. Shipments had been accelerating in previous months, spurred by the release of the iPhone 11 in September. The figures are based on data from the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT) and from Android device shipments. The iPhone […]
It’s been just exactly a year since Google introduced Google Assistant interpreter mode. The service allows you say something in one language and have it translated in another. That was at CES 2019. At CES 2020, American Airlines announced what could be a very practical application of the feature the airline is testing interpreter mode […]
The Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch is an external storage drive that delivers speeds up to twice as fast as the Samsung T5 (review), and for the very first time, features a built-in fingerprint sensor for added security. The new T7 Touch features highly respectable read speeds of up to 1050 MB/s and write speeds […]
Sprint is shutting down Virgin Mobile service and will transfer all customers to Boost Mobile starting the week of February 2nd. You’ll keep your phone and number in “most instances,” and will move to a “comparable or better” plan at no additional charge. Your mobile broadband device won’t carry over, though, and you’ll have to […]
Britain’s competition watchdog said that Facebook and eBay pledged to crack down on the trade in fake reviews, removing hundreds of accounts, pages and groups involved in the illicit business after the regulator warned them. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the two U.S. tech companies agreed to step up efforts to detect, investigate […]
Twitter is set to enable you to control replies to tweets further as it continues its battle to improve what it calls “conversational health” on the platform in other words, preventing people having the opportunity to interject abuse and unwanted comments into conversations. With the new feature, you’ll be able to restrict the replies to […]
The FBI is once again asking Apple to help it access iPhones for the sake of an investigation. The bureau has sent a letter to Apple’s general counsel requesting the company’s help in unlocking the two iPhones of Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the man believed responsible for killing three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola. FBI […]
Citizen’s release of the Alexa-powered clock last year, the company is releasing yet more timepieces with a technology bent. At CES 2020, Citizen showed off not just a multipurpose olfactory alarm clock, but a new Alexa-powered smart speaker as well. The Alexa-powered smart speaker is the more interesting of the two, even though it wasn’t […]
Intel has built a prototype PC called Horseshoe Bend that could offer the best of both worlds a little laptop with a big screen. Unlike many other folding-screen device concepts (or actual products) we’ve seen so far, the Bend is absolutely massive, coming in at 17 inches while lying flat. Design-wise, the Bend is nothing […]
Sonos is suing Google in two different courts over allegations of patent infringement. While the patent litigation is the primary reason, a secondary reason may be increasingly anti-competitive relationship Sonos has with Google and Amazon. Sonos relies on both for their virtual assistants and storefronts, however, Google Home and Amazon Echo undercut Sonos speakers in […]