An aspect of video calls that many of us take for granted is the way they can switch between feeds to highlight whoever’s speaking. Great — if speaking is how you communicate. Silent speech like sign language doesn’t trigger those algorithms, unfortunately, but this research...
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October 3, 2020 albert
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After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the Fortnite developer will be waging a war on two fronts. Epic added a direct payment option to its...
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August 14, 2020 albert
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If you want to protect your data from hackers, you should definitely use two-factor authentication, and Google Authenticator is a simple, logical choice. And now, it finally got a feature that makes it easy to move its data from one phone to another. If you’re...
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May 8, 2020 albert
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Mobile streaming service Quibi is less than a month old, but it’s already shoving its sticky little fingers where they don’t belong. A new report by Victory Medium researcher Zach Edwards has revealed Quibi leaked user’s signup emails to multiple third-party advertisers, including Google, Snapchat,...
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May 1, 2020 albert
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As he has in years past, the 44th President of the United States just released a list of his favorite music, movies, TV shows and books of 2019. And as in years past, the main thing about Obama’s favorites are that he has pretty good...
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December 30, 2019 albert
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Security researchers have found dozens of Android apps in the Google Play store serving ads to unsuspecting victims as part of a money-making scheme. ESET researchers found 42 apps containing adware, which they say have been downloaded over 8 million times since they first debuted...
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October 24, 2019 albert
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Justin Duino Google announced gadgets and gizmos aplenty today at its annual Made by Google event, and as cool as the Pixel 4 is, the Pixelbook Go might be my favorite gadget that we saw today. It’s a seriously impressive piece of hardware. At first blush,...
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October 16, 2019 albert
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Are too many Chrome extensions cluttering up your toolbar and menu? Google’s working on a solution for that. The new Extensions menu provides a place for all your extensions in one combined toolbar icon. It’s available today behind a flag. How to Enable Chrome’s New...
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August 25, 2019 albert
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Justin Duino Nest users can now migrate their account over to Google. Doing so allows for a more secure sign-in process and better integration with Google Assistant, but kills most third-party integrations. There are more cons than pros, so we recommend waiting. Why You Should...
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August 19, 2019 albert
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Josh Hendrickson Google may be storing everything you say to your Google Home and keeping the recordings forever, just as Alexa does. Google recently changed the default behavior not to keep the recordings. But that change only affected new users—not existing ones. Google Home Records...
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May 12, 2019 albert
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