It took Amazon long enough to teach Alexa French, but the assistant has reportedly gained mastery of both the language and country. “In France, Alexa is French,” said Amazon VP Jorrit Van der Meulen. “We’ve built an entirely new experience from the ground up that […]
Day: June 6, 2018
A New Privacy Problem Could Deepen Facebook’s Legal Trouble
On Sunday, The New York Times revealed that Facebook had deals with phone manufacturers including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Blackberry going back a decade that gave the device makers access to copious amounts of personal data about users and their friends in order to re-create […]
Microsoft program provides a decade of updates for Windows IoT devices
If you have an essential Internet of Things device running Windows 10 IoT Core Service, you don’t want to be worried about security and OS patches over a period of years. Microsoft wants to help customers running these kinds of devices with a new program […]
Apple Watch Pride face and strap: gallery
One of the announcements in the watchOS 5 section of WWDC 2018 was the fact that a new Watch face was being added to the mix: a rainbow-striped Pride face now available for free to any Watch user. Announced alongside was a matching Nylon Pride […]
Lenovo’s UFO-like hub brings Dolby audio to conference calls
It comes into its own when you’re ready to make a presentation. You can use it as a simple pass-through for a single device, but there’s also collaborative mode that helps multiple workers share their charts and slideshows. Sensors on the ThinkSmart Hub can detect […]
Tesla turns back challenges at annual meeting, and Elon Musk bares his soul
Tesla shareholders at today's annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic plan for the … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Roma, l’ultimo rimedio anti-buche: asfalto «magico» sulle strade. Test nei Municipi dove si vota
Per tappare le buche di Roma servirebbe un miracolo, ma nell'attesa il Comune sperimenta «un asfalto magico». E, per uno strano caso della cabala, il test su quindici municipi a disposizione e ben 13 amministrati da M5S sarà in funzione solo nel III … by Livio […]
Tasse, per la Lega il primo intervento è la pace fiscale. Siri: “Possiamo recuperare 35 miliardi …
Il senatore del Carroccio: "Ci saranno tre aliquote e terremo conto del reddito del debitore". Secondo l'Agenzia delle Entrate però nel 2016 solo 51 … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Bringing on Self-Driving Cars Means Knowing How Humans Ride
What do you look like when you’re excited? How about a little nervous? Bored? Full-on freaked out? If you happen to hop on one of the two very special shuttles that are now running 1-mile loops around the University of Michigan’s North Campus, a bunch […]
Microsoft announces the Windows Collaboration Display platform for offices
Windows Collaboration Displays are one of the more interesting bits to come out of Microsoft’s Computex keynote today. The company hasn’t released a ton of information about the hardware platform. At first glance, they appear to be similar to Microsoft’s own Surface Hub digital whiteboard […]