Amazon’s entry-level Kindle gets a light and a higher price tag
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Best Google Home add-ons and accessories
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Apple Ends Support for Funding Person-to-Person Payments With Credit Cards, Renames Apple Pay Cash...
Apple yesterday began sending emails to Apple Pay customers, warning them about new changes to the service that are taking effect immediately with iOS...
Machine-Labeled Data + Artificial Noise = Better Speech Recognition
Although deep neural networks have enabled accurate large-vocabulary speech recognition, training them requires thousands of hours of transcribed data, which is time-consuming and expensive...
[Update: Live on Android, web] Google Voice adds ‘Anonymous Caller ID’ option
Google Voice last month began rolling out the Google Material Theme redesign to Android, and expanded VoIP availability. The latest feature for Google’s telephony...
Cortana Skills now support Adaptive Cards
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How to Disable Siri Suggestions on Your iPhone’s Lock Screen
With iOS 12, Siri began offering suggestions for Shortcuts and more via the lock screen. You can disable these suggestions for individual apps or...
Top 50 Home Automation Terms and What They Mean
Home automation is a beautiful industry that can turn your home in the ultimate paradise. However, if you are not familiar with the specific...
Adversarial Training Produces Synthetic Data for Machine Learning
Sentiment analysis is the attempt, computationally, to determine from someone’s words how he or she feels about something. It has a host of applications,...
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Adversarial Training Produces Synthetic Data for Machine Learning
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Ears-on with the Sonos Move Bluetooth speaker: Portable Sonos sound with Alexa and Google...
It sure took long enough, but the audio gurus at Sonos have finally jumped into the portable Bluetooth speaker arena, and from what we’ve...
