AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker

October 27, 2019
As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to them) using a simple sentence rather than adding a prefix like “ask Tile to” every time. You can tell Assistant to…
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GamingNews

Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback

October 27, 2019
It’s an accomplishment to get millions of gamers to watch a blank screen, as Fortnite did during the weekend of October 12. As audiences were expecting news about Season 11, they were met with a black hole and a blank screen — an explosion, then a significant amount of…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook AI can 'hide' people from facial recognition

October 27, 2019
Facebook has already stopped using facial recognition by default, but now it might have a way for people to dodge facial recognition altogether. Its researchers have developed an AI system that can “de-identify” people in real time, including live videos. The…
MobileNews

Still using an iPhone 5? iOS 10.3.4 is required to keep your phone working

October 26, 2019
You may remember that, back in July, Apple released rare bug-fix updates for older versions of its operating system: iOS 10.3.4 and iOS 9.3.6. This was necessary to help keep older iPhones and iPads maintain accurate location functionality as the GPS network goes through a time rollover transition. However, the problem is even more serious for iPhone 5. Apple is sending out alerts to iPhone 5…
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ComputersNews

Windows 10X leak reveals a mix of desktop and mobile interfaces

October 26, 2019
Microsoft has already teased a few details for Windows 10X, but a leak has revealed a whole lot more. Well-known sleuther WalkingCat discovered a (since-pulled) document cache detailing Windows 10X’s interface, and it’s clear the changes extend far beyond the tablet-like Start menu. It’s really a blend of traditional desktop interfaces with concepts you normally only see on…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft leak reveals Windows 10X will be coming to laptops

October 25, 2019
Microsoft has accidentally published an internal design document for its upcoming Windows 10X operating system. Spotted by WalkingCat, the document was briefly available online today and provides some more detail about Microsoft’s plans with Windows 10X. The software…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: UiPath wants you to know its job cuts are strategic, despite the optics

October 25, 2019
It’s usually at least mildly newsworthy when a large or important or particularly hot company cuts a chunk of its workforce, as UiPath did this week when it cut about 400 jobs from its total of about 3,200. But the timing and optics of this particular round of cuts from this particular company was jarring, especially with the WeWork debacle still fresh on people’s minds. UiPath is a unicorn…
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