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Google’s voice recognition algorithms are getting better and smarter, and one of the areas where you can notice this improvement is YouTube. Even more appealing now is the fact that YouTube immediately starts playing a video when you do a voice search. When the new YouTube voice search is rolled out to your device, a […]
Huawei has had a rough week it was added to the US Entity List, and soon it will be cut off from most of the manufacturers and companies it relies on to make products. While perhaps not the most devastating blow Huawei has been dealt in recent days, it has now been excluded from the […]
Amazon rolled a new announcements feature for Echo devices, and later expanded it to Alexa-compatible Sonos speakers. Now, the feature can be used across all of the devices that utilize Alexa. The feature essentially allows you to turn your Echo devices into an intercom system, and initially rolled out to the Echo, Echo Plus, Echo […]
This past week’s been a tough one for Huawei. The Trump Administration banned the company from working with U.S. suppliers, meaning that Huawei’s relationship with Google will effectively end after August 19. We also saw Huawei lose its relationship with ARM, the company that helped build Huawei’s in-house Kirin processors. Now, it’s been confirmed that […]
Google’s “Stadia” cloud-based game streaming platform was announced at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March, and based on what we’ve learned so far, it sounds pretty good. Google is promising little to no latency, a sizable game selection, performance that exceeds the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro combined, and perhaps most importantly […]
The OnePlus 7 Pro is the nicest phone released by the company – with a higher price that reflects so much. But some early buyers report having noticed phantom screens, with apps responding as if something was bugged on the screen, even when the phone is idle. OnePlus is aware of the problem, according to […]
Snapchat has been in negotiations with music companies including the big three Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to license song catalogs for the Snapchat app, according to two industry sources familiar with the talks, confirming a Wall Street Journal report. The licensing deal would come at a time when tech […]
Microsoft is hoping to usher in a new era for game streaming with its Project xCloud game streaming service. The folks in Redmond, Washington gave us an early look at Project xCloud back in early March and is positioning it as a cross-platform service that will work on Xbox One consoles and even smartphones. Instead […]
AT&T is now one of the first few companies, and the first U.S. carrier, to accept bitcoin as payment thanks to a partnership between the mobile operator and the BitPay payment service. You’ll be able to pay using cryptocurrency either on AT&T’s website or through its myAT&T app. AT&T’s announcement doesn’t specify which cryptocurrencies it will […]
Nvidia is teasing “something super” on its GeForce gaming YouTube channel. Quite what it means is anyone’s guess right now, but with Computex and E3 just around the corner, temporally if not geographically, it’s a good bet the green team has got something planned to make sure it’s not just AMD getting column inches over the […]
Google Assistant and Google Pay are making navigating New York City a little easier this month thanks to new subway and bus integrations with the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Starting today, millions of NYC residents and tourists can ask Google Assistant when the next subway and bus is coming. We tried it out and […]
T-Mobile today announced that its unlimited data plans will soon be called Magenta and Magenta Plus change from their current “T-Mobile One” branding Starting June 2. Magenta is mostly the same as T-Mobile ONE, offering unlimited talk, text, LTE data, free international texting + 2G data, access to T-Mobile Tuesdays, and one hour of free […]
Facebook’s fake account problem keeps getting bigger. The company is removing more fake accounts than ever, taking down more than 2 billion accounts so far in 2019 alone, Facebook disclosed in a new transparency report. Company executives said there’s been a sharp uptick in the number of fake accounts created this year. There were 2.19 […]
Google’s remarkably human-like Duplex restaurant reservation service is one of the most impressive pieces of artificial intelligence ever created. But not all is as it seems. Despite deeply impressive demonstrations of how the system, a part of the Google Assistant, can call up a restaurant and make a reservation on your behalf, it regularly relies […]
After Google pulled Huawei’s Android support for future models, the Chinese brand has had a big problem: how to offer users apps to downloads, the lifeblood of the modern smartphone. A fresh report from Bloomberg today adds to the mounting evidence of Huawei preparing for being shunned by the United States. It suggests that Huawei’s […]