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Chrome 73 for desktops starts rolling out with Mac Dark Mode support and begins testing Auto Picture-in-Picture for “installed” Progressive Web Apps — The latest release of Google Chrome is rolling out today for Mac, Windows, and Linux. On desktops, Chrome 73 introduces … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gboard on Pixel phones now uses an on-device neural network for speech recognition of American English to remove network latency and spottiness — On-device machine learning algorithms afford plenty of advantages, namely low latency and availability — because processing is performed locally …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
IBM, other companies are using Creative Commons Flickr photos to train facial recognition software without the consent of people in the photos for that purpose — People's faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
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After two Boeing 737 Max 8s crash in six months, leading many to ground them, Boeing says it will update their flight control software in the coming weeks — • The European Union suspended “all flight operations” of the Boeing 737 Max model that has crashed twice in the past six months.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with Twitter's new prototype app twttr, its color-coded replies, hidden engagements, and more, with comparisons to Twitter's public iOS app — Yesterday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated prototype application to the first group of testers. We've now gotten our hands … | Gaurav Shukla / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
YouTube Music, YouTube Music Premium, and YouTube Premium launch in India, joining Google Play Music and Google Play Movies as well as Spotify — YouTube Music (ad-supported), YouTube Music Premium (ad-free), YouTube Premium (ad-free) have been launched in India.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Lookout app, which can help blind/visually impaired users identify objects, text, and people around them, is now available for Pixel phones in the US — One of the more impressive announcements that Google made at I/O 2018 was “Lookout.” This app helps the visually impaired …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about — Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust, particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory … | Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta — Mozilla has made privacy Firefox's calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don't meet the bar on security.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out “toxic” comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Disqus using its Perspective AI — The comments sections of websites bring out the best and worst of the internet — engaging insights are often found right next to enraging insults.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft's Seeing AI app, which narrates what's in front of the camera for sight-impaired users, now lets users “touch” objects' edges via haptic feedback — My neighbor Katina does not fit the description of an early adopter of technology. — She is a 75-year-old sculptor …
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| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google has moved dozens of employees out of its laptop and tablet division, scaling back the size of its in-house hardware group — - Google appears to be trimming the size of its laptop and tablet hardware group, telling dozens of engineers and program managers to find other roles …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Amazon pledges to keep Eero's network data private as its acquisition of the company officially closes — Eero will be run independently inside Amazon — Amazon's deal to acquire mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero has officially closed, expanding the retail giant's stable of consumer hardware offerings.
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