Facebook's new Portal makes good video calls but still has issues
A year ago, Facebook surprised a lot of people in tech (and elsewhere) by releasing a video chat device for the home.
Oct 15, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Say thank you and please: Should you be polite with Alexa and the Google Assistant?
Jeremy Bloom has a polite family. But after a few frustratingly failed attempts in which Bloom politely asked Alexa to turn down the volume at dinner time, he shouted instead, "Alexa, zip it."
Oct 14, 2019
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Five reasons to download MacOS Catalina
If it's October, it's time once again for a new computer operating system upgrade from Apple, this year called macOS Catalina.
Oct 8, 2019
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Google rolls out updated privacy tools for YouTube, Maps
Google is rolling out more tools for users to control their privacy settings.
Oct 2, 2019
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Code War: Myanmar's final digital battle ends
Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about to get a lot easier when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication next week.
Sep 27, 2019
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Business
McDonald's enlists Alexa and Google to help with its hiring
Want a job at McDonald's? Just ask your smartphone.
Sep 25, 2019
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Google vows to do more to protect your voice data
Google came under fire after media reports revealed that its contractors listened to customer audio recordings captured by the company's virtual assistant this year.
Sep 24, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Artificial Intelligence has a gender bias problem—just ask Siri
Suggest to Samsung's Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby "Let's talk dirty", and the female voice will respond with a honeyed accent: "I don't want to end up on Santa's naughty list."
Sep 23, 2019
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That muffled voice on the other side of the McDonald's drive-thru could be replaced by a robot
McDonald's on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a voice technology company to help speed up ordering at the drive thru, the latest in a series of high-tech investments by the fast-food chain as it strives to improve wait ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Business
GM hires Google to make infotainment system more like phones
General Motors is hiring Google to run key parts of its dashboard infotainment system, admitting that the tech firm can do a better job.
Sep 5, 2019
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