NurPhoto Live-audio app Clubhouse is creating plenty of chatter – about itself. Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, Demi Lovato and Mark Zuckerberg are among the celebrities to have popped up on the service. And you can find chats about everything from Bitcoin and Buddhism to relationships and R&B music on it. Even so, the […]
This gray box is live-captioning in action. It’s great for Jim Salter’s podcast and any other non-captioned audio on the web. Ron Amadeo The settings. This shows the tiny start-up download in action. Ron Amadeo It works on YouTube, too, but YouTube already has automatic captioning. Ron Amadeo Stress test! It did not do well […]
Gaming company Razer is the latest to jump onboard the trend of audio smartglasses with the newly announced Razer Anzu Smart Glasses, its first eyewear product. The Anzu aren’t just your typical pair of smart sunglasses. They serve a purpose that’s relevant not only to gamers — Razer’s core fanbase — but to anyone working […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Robert Van Winkle, who is better known as the rapper Vanilla Ice, held court online last week with more than 1,000 fans. In a rambling conversation, Mr. Van Winkle praised the poses of the 1990s band Bell Biv DeVoe and demurred when asked about his relationship with Madonna. He dispensed advice on […]
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. Though Apple’s free News app has been an unqualified hit with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users since its 2015 release, its $ 10 monthly news […]
Enlarge Qualcomm’s second-best chip for 2020, the Snapdragon 765G, is just barely hitting the market, but that isn’t stopping the company from releasing a new and improved version. Today, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 768G, an overclocked version of the 765G. Qualcomm is promising a 15-percent faster CPU and GPU compared to the Snapdragon 765G. Considering […]
Neil Gaiman narrates the teaser for The Sandman audio drama coming this summer from Audible and DC Comics. Last summer, we reported that a TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s seminal graphic novel series, The Sandman, was in development at Netflix. Now comes news that we’ll be getting a multi-part audio drama adaptation of the series […]
There’s a battle going on in Silicon Valley. At stake: Billions, or even trillions, of dollars for whichever company can find the best possible route to your eyeballs. This advertising war of attrition (ad-trition?) is all about controlling the online world of ads. Everyone from Google to Facebook is tripping over themselves, and pushing over […]
Enlarge / An Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4. Getty Images | Wachiwit Apple will stop storing voice recordings captured by Siri-enabled devices except in cases when users intentionally opt in to the practice. “[B]y default, we will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions,” Apple said in an announcement yesterday. “We will continue to use […]
Long-press the Action button to bring up Cortana. Valentina Palladino Here we go again. It’s Microsoft’s turn in the spotlight thanks to a new report about the company’s practices for reviewing and improving its AI. With today’s news, nearly every company operating a major voice assistant has now been hit with revelations that employees or […]
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Nobody seems to like LG phones. TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, PC Mag, and many others all topped out at 3.5-stars or below for LG’s latest flagship, the V50 ThinQ, and Digital Trends’ own Julian Chokkattu gave the phone a three-star rating. His biggest gripe? The features don’t match the price. The phone debuted […]
Walter Schirra in Command Module on Apollo 7. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration View of Earth as seen from Moon taken on Apollo 8. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration David Scott performing side hatch EVA during Apollo 9. NASA View of the Moon as seen from Apollo 10. NASA Neil Armstrong inside Lunar Module on […]
Insider Picks writes about products and services to help you navigate when shopping online. Insider Inc. receives a commission from our affiliate partners when you buy through our links, but our reporting and recommendations are always independent and objective. With nearly 500,000 tiles and plenty of original content, Audible is the best way to listen […]
University of Sussex Using a torch, you can easily single out an individual in a room. Likewise, a floodlight will let you illuminate a whole crowd of people. But can the same thing be done with sound? Not quite so easily — perhaps until now, that is. In the U.K., researchers at the universities of […]
HIllary Grigonis/Digital Trends The photo editing console Loupedeck Plus is continuing to move beyond still photos. On Thursday, March 13, Loupedeck announced Final Cut Pro and Adobe Audition compatibility with the Loupedeck Plus. The update is the second video editor to be integrated with the accessory that was originally designed for editing images inside Adobe […]