Samsung is one of the few phone manufacturers that has a solid history of innovation, even if it doesn’t always work out. But for the last few years the Korean company has prioritised incremental upgrades on a tried and tested design. The Galaxy S11 is Samsung’s opportunity to change all of that and create some […]
Apple has agreed to be more transparent with users when new software updates are likely to throttle or slow down the performance of their iPhones. The tech giant signed an agreement with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a UK watchdog, that it would be ‘clearer and more upfront’ with users in the future. It […]
Amazon today announced that third-party devices using Alexa Voice Service can now use voice announcements to turn smart speakers into something like a home intercom system. The move makes announcements available for a number of devices, like Facebook’s Portal and smart speakers and soundbars from companies like Bose and Sonos. Announcements are one-way voice messages […]
The 3rd-generation Echo Dot is great because it lets you spread Alexa around your home for just $50 a speaker, which is a big discount compared to some of the other Echo speakers in Amazon’s lineup. But why pay $50 when you can get the same thing for $19.99 a piece? Check out the Eufy […]
Are the female voices behind Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa amplifying gender bias around the world? The United Nations thinks so. A report released Wednesday by the UN’s culture and science organization raises concerns about what it describes as the “hardwired subservience” built into default female-voiced assistants operated by Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. The […]
There’s no such thing as a surprise anymore in the smartphone industry. There are simply too many hands in the pie and too much hype surrounding big smartphone launches. As a result, there’s no way that all the people involved with building flagship smartphones can keep things secret. It’s just not going to happen. Leaks […]
The latest Google app beta is rolling out this Friday in a return to the usual release cadence after a few disruptive weeks following I/O. Google app 9.94 reveals continued work on the Nest Hub Max with Face Match privacy and the possible addition of federated learning in the Search app. About APK Insight: In […]
Google Search, Google Assistant, and Google Maps all now let you order food delivery from some of the biggest food delivery services. That’s big because it means you might be able to place orders at your favorite restaurants without having to open a single food delivery app or remember which service you need to order […]
A patent made public today and filed by Amazon would allow the company’s voice assistant Alexa to start recording audio before users say a “wake word.” According to the patent, it would allow users to more naturally communicate with their devices, saying phrases like “Play some music, Alexa” rather than starting each command with “Alexa” […]
United Nations — More people will speak to a voice assistance machine than to their partners in the next five years, the U.N. says, so it matters what they have to say. The numbers are eye-popping: 85% of Americans use at least one product with artificial intelligence (AI), and global use will reach 1.8 billion […]
Remember microconsoles? Years before “the streaming era” that Sony now says is upon us, there was a period there where the conventional wisdom was that traditional consoles were dead and lower-priced microconsoles were the wave of the future. In that time, upstarts like Ouya and established brands like Sony, Nvidia, Mad Catz, Apple, Amazon, and […]
Google has begun forcing “a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers” to change their passwords after an issue that inadvertently left passwords exposed for more than a decade. In a post to its Google Cloud blog Tuesday, the company outlined an error made back in 2005 that stored a copy of actual user passwords […]
