Google Assistant now works in eight Indic languages, gets multilingual support for more languages, is coming to feature phones and Google Maps in more languages
Vice President of Product, Google Assistant … In most countries around the world, phones are the primary way people interact with the Google Assistant.
The SD Association unveils microSD Express format for mobile with data transfer speeds of up to 985 Mb/s, lower power consumption, and backwards compatibility
The SD Association has unveiled microSD Express, a new format that will bring speeds of up to 985 Mb/s to the tiny memory cards used in smartphones and other devices.
Interviews with Facebook content moderation contractors in US show they make ~$28K/year, some develop PTSD, and a few are even radicalized by what they see
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
Microsoft unveils Azure Kinect, a new depth-sensing camera for enterprises that uses Azure cloud; pre-orders for the dev kit are open now for $399 in China, US
It's for developers to build AI algorithms — Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could control games with your hands or body.
Microsoft debuts ARM-powered HoloLens 2: more comfortable, lighter, and with a field of view twice as big as its predecessor's; preorder for $3,500
Today, at MWC 2019 … Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Microsoft's Sending a Confusing Message With Its HoloLens 2 Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Microsoft and Trimble made a hardhat with HoloLens built-in Davi...
Google says it is bringing Assistant to Android Messages and it will utilize on-device AI so that no conversations will be sent to Google
The Google Assistant is everywhere. To access it on your Android phone, you can either long-press your phone's home button, use the “Okay, Google” …
Google says Android One activations grew 250% YoY, 50%+ of new entry-level Android devices are Android Go, and Digital Wellbeing tools are coming to more phones
Android's mission has always been to work closely with a broad and open ecosystem of partners to push the boundaries of hardware and software …
HoloLens 2, sources say powered by Windows Core Operating System, focuses on promotion of Azure in enterprises, offers subscription bundles starting at $125/mo
Microsoft announces the introduction … Dave Lee / Notes from Silicon Valley : Microsoft doubles down on the only AR use case that makes sense (so far) Thetuvix / Microsoft Docs : Spatial anchors — A...
Sony unveils 6.5-inch Xperia 1 with a cinematic 21:9 4K HDR OLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, triple 12MP cameras, and a 3,330mAH battery
The tall phones are coming — Sony has long struggled to get its phones noticed in the sea of top-tier Android devices, so at MWC 2019 …
With latest version of Google Play Services, Android 7.0 and up now supports the FIDO2 standard which lets users login to services using fingerprints or PIN
Here's a good reason to update to your latest version of Google Play Services: Android devices running version 7. and later can now log …
Huawei Mate X has a 4500 mAh battery, a folded thickness of 11mm and 5.4mm when unfolded, and a camera setup that can serve both as a selfie and main camera
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LG announces V50 ThinQ flagship with 5G support and a Dual Screen accessory, a second 6.2-inch OLED display that attaches to the V50 like a case
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Among foldables unveiled in 2019, Huawei's Mate X feels the most complete compared to Royole FlexPai or Galaxy Fold, but questions about their software remain
A foldable that folds without a gap — Samsung's Galaxy Fold announcement isn't even a week old yet, and we already have a competitor …
Researchers find new flaws in 4G and 5G letting hackers perform a targeted denial of service attack on a phone and track its location using ~$200 in equipment
A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users.
LG's 6.1" G8 ThinQ has a speaker embedded in the screen and a front camera that scans the user's palm to unlock and enables non-touch mid-air gesture controls
A palm scanner? AirMotion gestures? What's going on here? — Once upon a time, a few years ago, LG came to Mobile World Congress …
Qualcomm says it will release its first chipset with an integrated 5G modem in the first half of 2020
At Mobile World Congress 2019, Qualcomm made a few announcements pertaining to its future products when it comes to mobile chipsets and modems. One of those announcements revolves around …
Target launches Target+, a curated, third-party marketplace initially selling home, toys, electronics, and sporting goods products
Target this morning announced Target+, a new initiative designed to expand the assortment on Target.com with merchandise from third-party sellers. Tweets: @norock and @luckthelady Tweets: Simon HB / @...
A look at Wikidata, a sister project of Wikipedia, whose bot-friendly database supports many AI assistants like Alexa
HUMANS PRICKED BY info-hunger pangs used to hunt and peck for scraps of trivia on the savanna of the internet. Now we sit in screen-glow-flooded caves and grunt, “Alexa!” Tweets: @wikimediauk , @wire...
Real-world examples of how AI can augment human powers, help us be more creative, make better decisions, be safer, understand others better, and more
This is a written version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2018. You can watch a video version on YouTube.
Open letter from New York's state budget director regarding Amazon's pullout, which he calls a “tremendous loss”, claiming that HQ2 would have had a 9-to-1 ROI
losing 25,000+ jobs and $27 billion in tax revenue https://www.governor.ny.gov/ ... @semil : To each their own, tho as the facts bear out, cannot be argued as a win for NY/NYC/Queens based on this htt...
Study: while global smartphone unit sales declined in 2018, the overall revenues from smartphones increased 5% YoY to $522B, boosted by premium smartphones
Santa Clara-based Zededa, which develops edge virtualization software, raises $16M Series A co-led by Energize Ventures and Lux Capital
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Facebook expands its internet infrastructure projects, including its Terragraph platform and Express Wi-Fi, to Peru, Nigeria, South Africa, California, and more
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Survey finds that about 24% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week and about 50% listen at least once a month
around 60 million people listening a few times a week or more, and 91 million people listening at least once a week.http://chartable.com/... Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover : Fascinating results in this repor...
Sources: Accurx, a UK startup with a messaging service for medical teams and patients, has raised £8.8M Series A led by Atomico
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Google researchers devise Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation, say software is inadequate to defend from Spectre-type bugs due to high performance cost
Peter Bright / Ars Technica :
Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun lays out the company's challenges in an internal email, says it still isn't profitable even after generating $90M in revenue in 2018
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Tweets: @michaelbhorn Tweets: Michael B. Horn / @michaelbhorn : Fascinating look inside @udacity @TechCrunch seems to me they had become a blockbuster driven business m...
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