Problem of poor voice recognition of Australian accents has been addressed, as well as recognition of slang terms and difficult place names A persistent issue for phone users across platforms has been poor voice recognition for Australian accents. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian Google has improved voice searches for phone and computer applications to help it understand Australian accents …
Michael Saba and Christina Lee regularly receive unexpected visitors. But almost every week for the past year, they have had angry visitors knocking on the door on their Atlanta home demanding their stolen phones back. Sometimes the drop-ins arrive at the unassuming weatherboard house in the middle of the night, sometimes in groups and occasionally accompanied by police officers. All …
Despite the tech boom, cafeteria staff, security workers and bus drivers have told US labor secretary Thomas Perez they feel like ‘second-class citizens’ Lavish free cafeterias are well-known perks of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms, but less known are the struggles of kitchen staff. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters At Intel’s corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, the highly paid engineers and …
THE dashboard of your car is set to get smarter with a report predicting a 10-fold increase in smart infotainment systems as Apple and Google battle for the car market. A Juniper Research report predicts revenue for the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems will reach more than $600 million within four years, ten times the current sales figure. The …
The court order included the words ‘cookie’ and ‘browser’, which social network claims is against Belgian law for use of Dutch, French or German Facebook has disputed a Belgian court ruling that ordered it to stop tracking users without consent over the use of English words Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Facebook is objecting to the use of English words such as …
Despite its huge value, Silicon Valley developers are turned off by ‘secretive, controlling’ culture and its engineering is no longer seen as cutting edge With so many tech companies competing for talent, engineers are being turned off by Apple, which is short on perks and doesn’t allow engineers to talk about their work publicly. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images When developer …
Facebook is rolling out new emoji response buttons. Yay! Well, not ‘yay’, because they canned that one. FACEBOOK is about to introduce a broader spectrum of emoji responses to posts that extend the simple ‘like’ to sentiments such as ‘wow’, ‘haha’, ‘angry’, ‘sad’, and ‘love’. You’ll soon be able to express more to your friends, family, workmates and school acquaintances …
“Did you hear about the sick new rims?” Picture: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment via AP. The DeLorean Motor Company is going “Back to the Future” — and resurrecting the iconic car that Marty McFly and Doc Brown made famous in the 1980s time-travelling trilogy. Thanks to the recent passage of a new law permitting the sale of up to 300 …
More information about the rumoured Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) model has hit the Internet. Some of the smartphone specifications have been tipped via a leaked kernel source. Spotted by users via GSMArena, the purported kernel source of the Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016) reveals a full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) resolution display; Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 SoC; 13-megapixel rear camera with the Samsung S5K3L2XX …
If you are looking to host a website over the internet then you should buy web space from a web hosting provider. Web hosting term refers to the web space that your website needs in order to go live over the internet. There are a large number of web hosting providers across the country, but you need to look for …