How to Use Voice Commands to Enhance Your TV
Despite wide availability and vast improvements in speech recognition, most folks rarely use voice assistants. And when we do talk to Alexa, Google…
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An App Wants to Subtitle Life for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Users
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Google Assistant Is Now More Kid-Friendly
You can set limits and block specific content on your child’s smartphone, tablet, or computer, but the smart speakers and smart displays in your home are…
Google Assistant’s Future Is Looking Us Right in the Face
For years we've been promised a computing future where our commands aren't tapped, typed, or swiped, but spoken. Embedded in this promise is, of course,…
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Team Up to Vanquish the Password
We’ve been promised the end of password-based logins on the internet for a very long time, but now it seems that promise may finally be fulfilled.The FIDO…
How Amazon Alexa Is Getting Deeper Into India
Amazon Alexa has been in India for over four years now. The voice assistant, which initially debuted on Amazon Echo speakers, is currently available across a…
RE:WIRED 2021: Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka Imagine AI’s Potential for Good
When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The Matrix, Black Mirror, and The…
How to Identify Any Song Using Your Phone
Music is everywhere. You could be in a cab or a café, or sitting on your couch, when a new song finds its way into your head and takes up residence. But the…
Apple and Google’s New AI Wizardry Promises Privacy—at a Cost
Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user…