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Sponsored Links ASSOCIATED PRESS Facebook may have stopped listening to and transcribing Messenger voice chats, but it still needs voice recordings to improve its speech recognition technology. So the company is going to pay select users to record snippets of audio through a new program called “Pronunciations,” The Verge reports. In exchange, users can earn…
Sponsored Links T-Mobile CEO John Legere, right, and President and COO, Mike Sievert answer caller questions during the Un-carrier Q4 and Full-Year 2019 Earnings call on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS With most of the regulatory and legal hurdles out of the way — approval from the California Public Utilities Commission is still needed…
Sponsored Links Gearbox Software Uncharted won’t be the only well-known game franchise receiving a movie adaptation in the near future. Lionsgate has revealed that Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth will direct the Borderlands movie, with production starting later in 2020. Most of the details aren’t known (including the basic plot), but Roth…
Sponsored Links Igor Bonifacic / Engadget Twitter is testing a new feature that — if implemented — will prominently flag misleading tweets from politicians and other public figures, according to NBC News. As seen below, the feature adds red and orange badges to tweets the company has deemed “harmfully misleading,” followed by information from verified…
Sponsored Links Microsoft Microsoft refreshed Office’s icons last year, and now it’s Windows 10’s turn. The software giant is rolling out updates to the icons for Windows 10’s core apps over the months ahead, starting with the Calendar and Mail apps in a new Release Preview for Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. The company’s…
Hippos that escaped from drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s private zoo are reproducing in the wild, and with increasing numbers could threaten ecosystems.
Sponsored Links ASSOCIATED PRESS Mobile World Congress 2020 isn’t the only trade show affected by COVID-19, otherwise known as the new coronavirus disease. Facebook has just announced that it will withdraw its presence from the annual Game Developer’s Conference this year. In doing so, it will pull both Facebook Gaming and Oculus booths and have…
Sponsored Links Hasbro Disney’s bid to cash in on The Mandalorian‘s success has come a long, long way from when the company was scrambling to release crudely-designed shirts. Hasbro is releasing a deluge of toys and games meant to capitalize on the streaming show, and it won’t surprise you to hear that The Child (aka…
Researchers are concerned that China’s official reports on the number of coronavirus infections have not been including people who have tested positive for the virus but who have no symptoms. They fear the practice is masking the epidemic’s true scale. But public health experts say China is right to prioritize tracking sick patients who are…
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