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Google makes 'select to speak' tool more fluid for people with dyslexia
For people with dyslexia, low vision, those learning a new language or people who have a hard time focusing on busy text, Select-to-speak on Chromebooks allows them to hear selected text on their screen spoken out loud. Now, new, more human sounding voices for Select-to-speak will help spoken text be more fluid and easier to understand.
After India report, US mulls bill to fix Amazon's predatory practices
The American Choice and Innovation Online Act, led by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would prevent platforms like Amazon, Apple and Google from using their online dominance to disadvantage other firms, reports The Verge. "When dominant tech companies exclude rivals & kill competition, it hurts small businesses and can increase costs for YOU," Klobuchar said in a tweet on Thursday.
WhatsApp begins rolling out end-to-end encryption for chat backups
With the new update, if a user chooses to back up his chat history with end-to-end encryption, it will be accessible only to him, and no one will be able to unlock the backup. Neither WhatsApp nor the backup service provider will be able to access their end-to-end encryption backup. The feature will be rolling out "slowly" for people on the latest version of the app.
AirPods 3 to launch next week along with M1X MacBook Pro: Report
The new version of the AirPods Pro could have motion sensors to enable better fitness tracking, reports dailymail.co.uk. An image of the upcoming AirPods 3 reveals the earphones' design which seems to be inspired by the Pro variant. It may come with a short stem and a sensor, as well as a microphone on the front.
Facebook launches its 1st ever event for gamers in India
Spread across two days October 19 - 20, the virtual event will be hosted by comedian Abish Mathews. According to the firm, the event will provide an opportunity to the game developers, publishers and creators across India to build, grow their communities and monetize on Facebook.
TikTok emerges as most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for Sep
According to Sensor Tower, the countries with the largest number installs were from Douyin in China at 16 per cent, followed by the US at 12 per cent. Facebook was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with more than 51 million installs. The countries with the largest number of Facebook installs were from India at 29 per cent, followed by Indonesia at 7 per cent. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.
Twitter testing ads right in your replies amid monetisation push
"Starting today, we're trying something different and testing a new ad format in Tweet conversations," Bruce Falck, Twitter's revenue product lead, said on Wednesday. "If you're a part of this test (which is global; on iOS and Android only), you'll see ads after the first, third or eighth reply under a Tweet," he informed. Twitter sees here a big opportunity to build an ad offering that "creates value and aligns incentives for creators and advertisers".
If we don't solve future problems, we would be gone: Dell CEO
Speaking at the virtual 'Dell Technologies Summit' late on Wednesday, Dell said that we have to be bold in our reinvention and our investments for the future. "A business like ours really exists to solve those future problems. If we're successful in doing that, we'll be around for the next 37 years and beyond. If we don't do that, we'll be gone. That's just the way it works. It's not any more complicated than that," he said during his keynote address. Under his leadership, Dell is now building new-age solutions for the era of 5G, edge computing and telecom.
Microsoft, AMD to patch Ryzen bug on Windows 11 PCs next week
Microsoft said unlit the new update arrives it won't be pushing Windows 11 to AMD Ryzen-powered devices and suggests owners of such PCs to refrain from updating manually, reports GSMArena. The first bug affects the L3 cache and increases latency up to three times. The second bug is related to the "preferred core" feature that allows a system to use the fastest individual CPU cores in a processor.
Shatner after space trip: I'm so filled with emotion about what happened
Shatner has broken the record of aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who, at 83, became the oldest person to have ever flown to space. The booster and capsule of the fully automated and reusable New Shepard rocket landed separately, with the capsule landing in the west Texas desert with the help of parachutes within minutes of their launch to space.
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