Tech Xplore - voice

Google touts privacy options, but still depends on your data

Google's latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it?

Oct 16, 2019

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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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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 08, 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 02, 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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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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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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