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 approach pairs an adversarial auto-encoder with a trained face classifier to ever-so-slightly distort a person’s face…
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MobileNews

Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

October 26, 2019
This has been a big week for Rich Communicator Services with the four largest US carriers announcing (a Google-less) plan to roll out the SMS/MMS successor. Today, a trick has emerged that appears to enable RCS on any Android device and carrier. Posted to Reddit (u/NashRadical, u/sh0ch, u/LinkofHyrule), this trick to enable RCS in Messages appears reliant on Google’s implementation. The…
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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 giant originally unveiled Windows 10X as the operating system powering the company’s new Surface Neo hardware, but it will…
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