Category: Gadgets

Google’s real-time speech recognition AI can run offline on Pixel

[ad_1] Voice recognition traditionally works by breaking apart the words you speak into smaller parts known as phonemes, according to Science Line. The speech recognizer would then analyze the order, pattern, and context of the phonemes in order to generate a sentence. This would usually result in a lag as you waited for the software […]

LG’s SnowWhite is like a Keurig for ice cream

[ad_1] SXSW 2019 isn’t just about films, politicians, designers and social media founders. There are also gadgets here to check out. Enter LG’s SnowWhite, a concept machine designed to let you easily make ice cream at home. The SnowWhite is basically like a Keurig, featuring a pod-based system that allows you to choose the base […]

Why humans must band together to fight the tyranny of tech

[ad_1] It might seem like there's no winning against Facebook and Google, tech companies whose reach and influence are now practically inescapable. Facebook's inability to police its own platform led to widespread misinformation ahead of the 2016 election…. [ad_2] Source link

Palm’s tiny (pointless) phone gets its own battery case

[ad_1] The trouble with the Palm is that it’s not that great of a phone. While the $350, Verizon-exclusive child-sized device is nothing if not adorable, its incompatibility with iMessage, cramped keyboard, and poor battery life makes it a pale substitute for the bigger device you already know and love. Mophie’s juice pack will add […]

Google shows how it could make a cloud-savvy game controller

[ad_1] The gamepad could also store your account and host device settings (like brightness and volume), not just familiar hardware options like game-specific button bindings and general gamepad settings. You could visit a friend and instantly pick up where you left off. Google originally filed the patent in 2014 (hence the Android KitKat-era “home” and […]

The best free-to-play games

[ad_1] Alto’s Odyssey If you liked Alto’s Adventure, you’ll love Alto’s Odyssey. The sequel to Snowman’s endless runner — sorry, endless snowboarder — is a stylish and highly-addictive sandboarding game with multiple biomes to discover. Just like the original, your goal is to ride for as long as possible while avoiding rocks, completing tasks and […]

Here’s what our readers think of the Google Pixel 3 and 3XL

[ad_1] When it comes to the design of the phone, users were split between admiring its premium feel and having concerns about its durability. Lyubomir says the 3 is “light, very well balanced and the frosted back feels entirely different to what I imagined. It’s really soft and if I didn’t know better I wouldn’t […]

The Morning After: Breaking up Big Tech

[ad_1] The details of Canada’s cyptocurrency scandal.QuadrigaCX’s missing millions is the messiest Bitcoin saga yet QuadrigaCX was one of Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, controlling assets believed to be worth around $200 million CAD. Unfortunately, Gerald Cotten, its co-founder and CEO, passed away in December 2018. Unfortunately for customers, he was the only one who could […]

‘The Division 2’ has a 50GB day one patch waiting for disc buyers

[ad_1] The size of the download is basically the size of the installed game. While physical media is still more flexible for players than login-tethered digital copies, the discs won’t contribute much, if anything, to what players are actually relying on. Last fall at least one UK retailer put the new Call of Duty on […]

Apple’s rumored AR headset might require an iPhone

[ad_1] The AR glasses, Apple’s first, will act as a display, and the computing, rendering, internet connection and location services will come from the user’s iPhone, Kuo said, as reported by 9to5Mac. In a lot of ways, this would be similar to the approach Apple took with the first few Apple Watch models, which needed […]