Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Google Home’s multi-room audio now works with Bluetooth speakers

Google Home is getting a long-awaited feature: Bluetooth. Previously, only Google Cast-enabled speakers could be looped in to a network of Home-commanded devices. Now users can pair their speaker of choice with the dedicated Home app and voice comman...

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Airbnb starts sharing Chinese hosts' info with the government

China is determined to make foreign companies bow to its surveillance rules, and that extends to home rental services. Airbnb has told hosts that it will start providing their information to Chinese government agencies on March 30th in order to obey...

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ season two somehow looks darker than the first

The first season of The Handmaid's Tale ended with Offred/June (Elisabeth Moss) leaving the Commander's house, jumping into the back of a van that was headed who knows where. Now we have a look at the second season, which will be going beyond the Mar...

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What educators think about Apple’s new iPad

Yesterday's Apple event showed that the company wants to make a serious push back into the education sector. This isn't anything new though, according to CEO Tim Cook it's just the company going back to its roots. The centerpiece here is a "new" iPad...

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DJI will let developers fully customize its drones

Drone company DJI is expanding its efforts in the commercial sector with a new thermal imaging camera and a payload software development kit (SDK) that will allow startups and developers to integrate custom gear onto DJI drones.

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Uber reportedly reduced the number of sensors on its autonomous cars

Uber is facing some intense scrutiny after one of its self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona ten days ago. The company (along with it's partner, NVIDIA) has stopped testing its autonomous vehicle in cities across the US, and the...

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Apple trains Chicago teachers to put coding in more classrooms

Apple isn't quite done announcing educational plans in Chicago. It just unveiled a partnership with Northwestern University and public schools to help teachers bring programming and other forms of computer science into Chicago-area classrooms. The tr...

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