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The New Pixel 4 Real-Time Transcription App Is Amazing—What to Use If You Can’t Get It

The New Pixel 4 Real-Time Transcription App Is Amazing—What to Use If You Can’t Get It

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The New Pixel 4 Real-Time Transcription App Is Amazing—What to Use If You Can't Get It Among the new features onboard the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones is a Recorder app that can transcribe spoken audio in real-time—a tool that could prove hugely useful in lectures, interviews, and more besides. It works offline too, but it’s not your only option for converting speech into text.Read more... Go to Source
Uber’s New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated]

Uber’s New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated]

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Uber's New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated] Uber has announced it’s developing a new drone it hopes to use for Uber Eats deliveries one day. Eric Allison, the head of Uber Elevate, talked about the new drone in Detroit yesterday at the Forbes Under 30 Summit. And while the mock-up design looks pretty cool, with rotating wings and six rotors, the details…Read more... Go to Source
FCC Proposes Banning U.S. Firms From Using Federal Subsidies to Purchase Huawei, ZTE Equipment

FCC Proposes Banning U.S. Firms From Using Federal Subsidies to Purchase Huawei, ZTE Equipment

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FCC Proposes Banning U.S. Firms From Using Federal Subsidies to Purchase Huawei, ZTE Equipment The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with new restrictions on doing business with tech giants Huawei and ZTE, with chairman Ajit Pai setting a Nov. 19 date for vote on a proposal to bar U.S. firms that receive federal subsidies from purchasing the Chinese firms’ telecom equipment.Read more... Go to Source
Supergirl Completely Screwed James Olsen

Supergirl Completely Screwed James Olsen

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Supergirl Completely Screwed James Olsen James “Jimmy” Olsen got a raw deal. The character found on Supergirl was never the character from the comic books, and often never the same character from season to season of Supergirl. He was a soft and sweet love interest who wanted to keep Kara safe, until suddenly he was a grim vigilante or a weird duo with Lena…Read more... Go to Source
10 Werewolf Movies to Watch Before the Next Full Moon

10 Werewolf Movies to Watch Before the Next Full Moon

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10 Werewolf Movies to Watch Before the Next Full Moon Being a werewolf is generally messy—there’s that agonizingly painful transformation process, the total loss of self-control, and just having to deal with all that fur everywhere. Lycanthropes are full of angst, and movies—including these 10 essential picks—have always appreciated that about them.Read more... Go to Source
Terminator: Dark Fate’s ‘New Sarah Connor’ Is Ready to Lead

Terminator: Dark Fate’s ‘New Sarah Connor’ Is Ready to Lead

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Terminator: Dark Fate's 'New Sarah Connor' Is Ready to Lead Natalia Reyes is the personification of the two biggest questions going into Terminator: Dark Fate. Reyes plays Dani, a young Mexican woman being hunted by a brand new Terminator. So question one is, what makes Dani so important? The second question comes from the man himself, Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger.Read more... Go to Source
South Africa Rations Water As it Tries to Avoid ‘Day Zero’ Again

South Africa Rations Water As it Tries to Avoid ‘Day Zero’ Again

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South Africa Rations Water As it Tries to Avoid 'Day Zero' Again South African residents are being urged to use their water sparingly as hot, dry weather pushes the country toward another water shortage. The South African Minister of Human Settlements, Water, and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu made the announcement Monday at a press conference to address the issue.Read more... Go to Source
The GoPro Max Makes Shooting 360-Degree Video Dead Simple

The GoPro Max Makes Shooting 360-Degree Video Dead Simple

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The GoPro Max Makes Shooting 360-Degree Video Dead Simple Two years ago, GoPro took its first stab at a 360-degree action camera with the GoPro Fusion. It wasn’t a particularly good stab. It was bulky, it required two micro SD cards, and the footage was a royal pain to work with. In the intervening years, we’ve seen decent 360 cameras from the likes of Garmin, Insta360, and…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Announces AirPods Pro With Noise-Cancellation, Coming on October 30th

Apple Announces AirPods Pro With Noise-Cancellation, Coming on October 30th

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Apple Announces AirPods Pro With Noise-Cancellation, Coming on October 30th After people discovered hints about new AirPods in code for iOS 13.2, it seemed like the arrival of Apple’s next wireless earbuds were imminent. And today, Apple removed all doubt when it announced the AirPods Pro in a new post on Apple’s online newsroom. Read more... Go to Source
How to Enable Gmail’s Dark Mode in iOS

How to Enable Gmail’s Dark Mode in iOS

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How to Enable Gmail's Dark Mode in iOS Finally, my favorite email app is getting dark mode. And if you’re lucky, you’re already able to take advantage of the new feature within Gmail on iOS and Android. We’ve already written about the latter, and now we’re here with a quick guide to enabling dark mode on the former—if you can access it.Read more... Go to Source
Nvidia’s Newest Set-Top Box Uses AI to Turn Content 4K

Nvidia’s Newest Set-Top Box Uses AI to Turn Content 4K

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Nvidia's Newest Set-Top Box Uses AI to Turn Content 4K It’s not magic, but when the new Nvidia Shield works, it almost feels like it. The new tube-look revision of Nvidia’s already superb set-top box has taken away a few features, dropped the price, and packed in a new variant of the Tegra X1 chip. This chip is important because it allows the Shield to accomplish the…Read more... Go to Source
Adobe Gets Permission From U.S. to Continue Offering Services in Venezuela

Adobe Gets Permission From U.S. to Continue Offering Services in Venezuela

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Adobe Gets Permission From U.S. to Continue Offering Services in Venezuela Adobe has gained permission from the U.S. government to continue offering its Creative Cloud services, including Photoshop and Illustrator, to customers in Venezuela, according to a new announcement posted to Adobe’s website. The company had previously announced that it would be forced to delete the accounts of all…Read more... Go to Source
Watchmen’s Latest Twist Shouldn’t Be a Surprise to Anyone

Watchmen’s Latest Twist Shouldn’t Be a Surprise to Anyone

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Watchmen's Latest Twist Shouldn't Be a Surprise to Anyone The story taking place in Watchmen’s present is informed by that world’s past—one similar to ours where groups of white supremacists have terrorized black people across the world for centuries. At times, the show assumes you know this fact to be true but in others, like the opening moments of this week’s episode, …Read more... Go to Source
This New Featurette Teases the Fundamental Stephen King Creepiness of Castle Rock’s Second Season

This New Featurette Teases the Fundamental Stephen King Creepiness of Castle Rock’s Second Season

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This New Featurette Teases the Fundamental Stephen King Creepiness of Castle Rock's Second Season Now that Castle Rock is building a multi-season journey of spooks, the broader goals of its seasonal storytelling are becoming clear. There’s hints of an anthology here, but also gestures toward a broader story, a unifying theory of scary Stephen King stuff. How do the creators plan to weave those threads together?…Read more... Go to Source
Employees Continued to Get Screwed by MyPayrollHR Fiasco

Employees Continued to Get Screwed by MyPayrollHR Fiasco

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Employees Continued to Get Screwed by MyPayrollHR Fiasco When cloud payroll provider MyPayrollHR abruptly closed its doors amid fraud allegations last month, it sent its roughly 1,000 clients, many of them small businesses, into disarray as employees saw their paychecks disappear from their accounts. The fallout continued this week after MyPayrollHR’s third-party processor,…Read more... Go to Source
A Month With the Improved Galaxy Fold and I Actually Still Like It

A Month With the Improved Galaxy Fold and I Actually Still Like It

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A Month With the Improved Galaxy Fold and I Actually Still Like It Following the ambitious but janky Royole Flexpai, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold was supposed to be the redeemer, a device that demonstrated the power of foldable tech. Then Samsung gave the Fold to a bunch of savages (aka tech reviewers), who pawed at it like it was a normal phone, and then the Fold had to go away for some …Read more... Go to Source