After testing out its new abuse and spam filter for Direct Messages for the past two months, Twitter is now rolling out the new feature to all users. The social network will now filter suspect, offensive, and inappropriate messages in a more efficient way starting today.
Users will see a new option in the Message Requests menu that handles Direct Messages sent by unknown people. These…
Pinterest updated for iOS 13 with support for Dark Mode
October 1, 2019
Dark Mode continues to make its expansion to the most popular iOS apps following the release of iOS 13. Pinterest for iOS has been updated today with support for Dark Mode, joining countless other applications in doing so thus…
Apple will pay 25 percent tax on five imported Mac Pro parts, thanks to Trump tariffs
September 30, 2019
The US Trade Representative’s office has denied Apple tariff relief on five parts for its new Mac Pro computer, as reported by Bloomberg. Each of the imported parts — the optional wheels, a circuit board for managing input and output ports, power adapter, charging cable…
IBM’s AI generates high-quality voices from 5 minutes of talking
September 30, 2019
Training powerful text to speech models requires sufficiently powerful hardware. A recent study published by OpenAI drives the point home — it found that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest runs grew by more than 300,000 times. In pursuit of less demanding models, researchers at IBM developed a new lightweight and modular method for speech synthesis. They say it’s able to…
How to take square photos with iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
September 30, 2019
Want to change the aspect ratio for iPhone 11 camera shots? Follow along for how to take square photos and more with iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro.
The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro have a new Camera app that includes exclusive features like Night mode, an interface to make…
Mate 30 Pro vs. iPhone 11 Pro vs. Galaxy Note10+ camera compare
September 30, 2019
The Galaxy Note10 led the way with its late-August announcement, Apple put out the iPhone 11s in mid-September, and Huawei followed a week later with the Mate 30 series. We had all three fall season big guns at the office at the same time, and we figured we’d do a…
Review: Peloton Digital for iPhone and iPad + using Tread and Bike with Apple Watch
September 30, 2019
Peloton is a fitness firm best known for its stationary bikes equipped with touchscreens for live and on-demand video workout classes. The seven-year-old American company, which launched its IPO in September, doesn’t just serve cyclists though.
Peloton Tread serves walkers and runners alike, and Peloton Digital for iPhone and iPad lets you experience even more workout courses — even if you…
Ulysses writing app gets the iOS 13 treatment with Dark Mode, multi-window iPad support, more
September 30, 2019
Well-rated iPhone and iPad writing app, Ulysses, has received an update today to leverage the new functionality possible with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. New features include Dark Mode, multi-window iPad support, iOS 13-styled icons, new context menus, full integration with the…
Google researchers train AI to distinguish 9 Indian languages
September 30, 2019
The world speaks thousands of languages — roughly 6,500, to be exact — and systems from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon become better at recognizing them each day. The trouble is, not all of those languages have large corpora available, which can make…
Minecraft Marketplace August 2019: Lucky Blocks tops the charts
September 30, 2019
The Minecraft Marketplace didn’t have any major sales or events in August, but players still racked up 7,167,675 downloads for the month. That’s behind the 10.9 million in July and 7.9 million in June. But the store is up significantly from just 373,361 downloads during the same period last year.
With the Summer Sale ending in July, August revealed that some Marketplace content has long legs.
