Category: Tech

Google Assistant uses ‘Duplex on the Web’ to buy your movie tickets

[ad_1] If you own an Android phone, simply tell the digital helper that you want seats to a specific movie or search for showtimes using the Google app. Assistant will then take care of working through any website, which makes it handy for ones that aren’t optimized for mobile. It’s also able to automatically input […]

NBC News: Zuckerberg had an undisclosed dinner with the president

[ad_1] Last month Mark Zuckerberg publicly made a trip to Capitol Hill as he testified in front of lawmakers about Facebook’s Libra cyptocurrency plans. Tonight NBC News has revealed that Zuckerberg also made another stop that was not previously disclosed — a dinner at the White House with Facebook board member Peter Thiel and Donald […]

Apple cancels planned festival premiere of its TV+ movie ‘The Banker’

[ad_1] Just a day before The Banker was supposed to premiere at the American Film Institute’s festival in Los Angeles, Apple yanked the movie while it looks into “some concerns surrounding the film.” Based on a true story about two black men in the 1960s who built up a real estate and banking empire by […]

Trump ‘opens’ Texas Apple plant that’s built Mac Pros since 2013

[ad_1] As planned, today Donald Trump took a tour of an Apple manufacturing facility in Texas alongside CEO Tim Cook. While impeachment hearings continued in D.C., the president tweeted that “Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America.” While Apple did claim in September […]

Google bans political ad targeting by affiliation and voter records

[ad_1] These practices are in line with what you already see in conventional TV, radio and print ads, Google said. The search firm is also taking a tougher stance on truth in advertising than Facebook, if only slightly. It’s clearing up its ad policies to explicitly forbid deepfakes, misleading census claims or any other ads […]

Sonos buys an AI startup to improve voice control for its speakers

[ad_1] Snips is a small, 50-person outfit, and that was reflected in the size and speed of the deal. Sonos bought the firm for $37.5 million, and it quietly closed on November 14th. The buyout is a recognition of an intensifying smart speaker market. Competitors have usually leaned more on voice assistants than audio quality […]

SpaceX’s first Starship pops its top during a ‘pressure test’ in Texas

[ad_1] SpaceX has already moved on to manufacturing its next generation of ‘Mk3’ Starship frames, but the original model Elon Musk stood in front of two months ago popped open during an apparent “pressure test” at the company’s Boca Chica, TX site. According to site watchers like LabPadre, the top flew some 500 feet in […]

WhatsApp banned over 400,000 accounts during Brazil’s election

[ad_1] There is evidence of a likely culprit, however. A Guardian data study indicated that the “vast majority” of false info shared on WhatsApp during the election favored far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, with 42 percent of sampled right-wing messages containing false claims versus just 3 percent for the left-wing camp. The eventual winner was also […]

Mixer streamers can limit clip-making to their regular viewers

[ad_1] If you’re a viewer, you’ll have a better shot at producing quality clips. You can trim clips to specific sections and preview the results before you publish them. You’re limited to at least 15 seconds and a maximum 60 seconds, but you’ll have a better chance of preserving a hilarious moment than you did […]

Sling TV now streams on Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max

[ad_1] Sling TV users now have another way to stream their content. Beginning today, Sling TV is available on Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max. Users can control Sling with built-in voice controls on those devices, and on Nest Hub Max, they can pause and resume content on Sling using gesture controls — hold up […]