[ad_1] Since last spring, the government’s entity list ban against Huawei (and ZTE) has largely prevented US companies from working with them. Despite legal wrangling and trade negotiations between the two countries the ban is still in place, and in the case of Google, it means that while there are still updates and services available […]
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Facebook will pay for user recordings to improve speech recognition
[ad_1] Facebook will use its Viewpoints market research app, through which it has paid users to take surveys. Qualifying users will be asked to record the phrase “Hey Portal” followed by the first name of a friend in their friend list. If you participate, you’ll have to repeat the statement twice and do this with […]
Twitter tests labeling and correcting misleading tweets from politicians
[ad_1] Twitter emphasized to NBC News the feature is “one possible iteration” of a new anti-misinformation policy the company plans to implement on March 5th, the same day its recently announced ban on deepfakes goes into effect. “We’re exploring a number of ways to address misinformation and provide more context for tweets on Twitter,” a […]
HBO and HBO Max are coming to YouTube TV
[ad_1] We’re feeling pret-tay, pret-tay good about this news we have to share with you…@HBO is coming to YouTube TV this spring. Welcome to the family! — YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) February 20, 2020 The AT&T-owned media company wants to make its “networks available as widely as possible,” Rich Warren, president of WarnerMedia Distribution, said in […]
Alamo Drafthouse’s movie-per-day Season Pass is finally here
[ad_1] There are no contracts, although you will have to cover “convenience fees” and taxes — plus, of course, tickets for anyone who doesn’t have a Season Pass. The wider access comes just weeks after MoviePass went bankrupt and reflects a maturing approach to theater subscription services. Like with AMC, Alamo wants to tempt you […]
TikTok lets parents set time limits and vet DMs on teen accounts
[ad_1] Called “Family Safety Mode,” the new feature links a parent’s TikTok account to their teen’s, allowing them to control a number of aspects of digital wellbeing. Parents can decide how long their kid spends on the app each day, and can limit or completely disable direct messages. There’s also a new restricted mode, which […]
Blue Apron considers selling itself as it bleeds customers
[ad_1] Recent subscriber data explains just why Blue Apron is exploring mergers and sales. The company’s customers dropped from about 557,000 at the end of 2018 to 351,000 a year later — that’s a drop of nearly 37 percent in the space of a year. Orders dropped by nearly a third, too. And while Blue […]
Facebook’s gigabit wireless rolls out in Puerto Rico
[ad_1] San Juan’s infrastructure and UNESCO world heritage sites have made it challenging to provide fiber connectivity through Old San Juan. But that makes it an ideal city to test Facebook’s Terragraph system, the 60GHz millimeter-wave wireless tech that blasts internet through buildings along a network of short-distance cell towers. This offers an alternative to […]
Apple Music’s Replay 2020 playlist tracks your favorites week-by-week
[ad_1] This is partly Apple’s attempt to get ahead of Spotify’s own year-in-review playlist, and it probably won’t be too useful at first when it will only reflect your mood from the past few weeks. Nonetheless, it could be helpful to show how your tastes evolve over the year — not to mention a readily […]
‘State of Decay 2’ is getting a major free update
[ad_1] The tutorial has been expanded, the pacing of legacy runs has been improved, there’s a new weapon class, a new map and new weather effects. Dodge and stealth have been split into separate commands in a bid to improve the game’s control scheme, and dozens of mission and gameplay bugs have been fixed. The […]