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How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls

April 10, 2020
Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebook’s Workplace, and Google’s Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users. The milestone overshadowed its unveiling of a few new features coming “later this year.” Most were straightforward: a hand-raising feature to indicate you have something to say, offline and low-bandwidth support to read chat…
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Google Cloud launches coronavirus response program with Contact Center AI

April 10, 2020
Google Cloud today announced the launch of the Rapid Response Virtual Agent program, a quick way to launch Contact Center AI agents for handling conversations with online chat or over the phone. The Rapid Response program also makes it easy to add COVID-19 related templates like Pathfinder. Made by Alphabet’s Verily with Google Cloud, the Pathfinder template incorporates World Health…
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Google launches braille keyboard for Android devices

April 10, 2020
Google today announced the launch of a virtual braille keyboard for Android that’s designed to enable those with low vision or blindness to type on their phones without additional hardware. The tech giant says it collaborated with braille developers and users to create it…
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Samsung unveils Galaxy A71 5G and A21 as the 2020 A-series heads to the US

April 8, 2020
The 2020 models from Samsung’s Galaxy A-series is coming to the US – the first models will be available tomorrow with more options (including a couple of 5G-connected phones) scheduled to arrive in the summer. And yes, the roster includes two brand new devices, including the 5G version of the Galaxy A71. However, we’ll start with the two phones that will become available tomorrow. The…
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Honor 30 Pro official images surface

April 8, 2020
Honor President Zhao Ming released a set of official press renders for the upcoming Honor 30 Pro which is set to debut on April 15 alongside the vanilla Honor 30. We can see the back design complete with the quad-camera setup, expected to be headlined by a 50MP Sony IMX700…
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New version of OnePlus 8's Interstellar Glow color surfaces

April 8, 2020
The OnePlus 8 will be available in a color called “Interstellar Glow”, but leaks haven’t quite managed to nail down the exact hue. When we first saw it, it had deeply saturated colors, going from purple to warm yellow. New renders of the same color have surfaced, which show much lighter colors. This version looks more like opalescent white. Here’s a side by side comparison: OnePlus 8…
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