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Neurotechnology reveals 5M duplicates in Democratic Republic of Congo’s voter databasea day agoReportedly more than five million duplicate vote records have been discovered and removed from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming elections database. This comes after a deduplication exercise involving biometric identification technology company, Neurotechnology, working directly with th...

Get a kid (or yourself) started with this cool micro-computer with three-dozen sensor projectsa day agoYou can tackle the Pi by completing a host of cool Internet of Things projects with this Sensor Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi. The deal (which also includes a fully functional Raspberry Pi 3B with an 8GB TF card) is discounted to $129.99 from TNW Deals.

Microsoft’s new app beams texts and photos from your phone to your Windows desktopabout 23 hours agoIf you frequently reach for your phone to tackle messages and notifications while at your desk, Microsoft has some good news for you: it’s launching a new app that lets you access your phone’s contents from your Windows 10 desktop. It’s called ‘Your Phone,’ and the app will initially let you view...

Fitbit brings female health tracking and quick replies to the Versa and Ionica day agoWhen Fitbit introduced the Versa, it promised two important features for its smartwatch OS: female health tracking and Quick Replies.  Those features have finally arrived. As a recap, the Fitbit is giving its two most advanced devices, the Versa and Ionic, the ability to track and record female h...

HO£IDA¥ GUID€$: What I plan to buy your mom on Mother’s Dayabout 13 hours agoMoms, right? From carrying you in her bulging belly for nine months, to softly running her hands through your hair at night after a hard day at school, all the way to her teary eyes and look of pride as you graduate, mothers are a wonderful part of our lives. This Sunday (13th May), we have a cha...

28 helpful Slack communities you should join as a UX designerabout 13 hours agoTons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to con...

Google News aims to fix journalism by offering an easy way to pay for itabout 10 hours agoGoogle News is one of Alphabet’s oldest and most instantly recognizable products. It was built shortly after the 9/11 attacks in New York by a Google engineer as a 20-percent project, in an attempt to better understand the terrorist atrocity that struck the US. It’s also arguably one of its most ...

Android launches Shush and Wind Down, to keep your phone off when it needs to be offabout 10 hours agoGoogle today announced it was adding new features called Shush and Wind Down to the upcoming Android P operating system. Both features are updates to Android’s existing Do Not Disturb mode, intended to make it easier for users to disengage from their phones. Shush is a new gesture to activate Do ...

Here’s how Android P’s new gesture controls workabout 2 hours agoJust as rumored, Android P will officially bring gestures to Team Google, replacing the classic trio of buttons at the bottom of your screen with finger dances reminiscent of the iPhone X (or the Palm Pre, anyone?). The new interface centers around a single pill-shaped home button, which allows y...

Gmail adds a predictive type feature called Smart Composeabout 5 hours agoGoogle today introduced a new feature meant to help users compose and send email faster than ever. The feature, called Smart Compose, tries to understand typed text so that artificial intelligence can suggest words and phrases to finish your sentences. If you like the suggestion, just hit tab to ...

With App Actions and Slices, Google introduces more ways for users to interact with the apps on their phonesabout 11 hours agoWith Instant Apps, Google offers a feature for Android users that allows them to load a small part of an app right from the search results and get a native app experience. With Slices, Google is launching a new feature today that may look somewhat similar at first glance, but which solves a very ...

Slack hits 8 million daily active users with 3 million paid usersabout 11 hours agoAs Slack looks to woo larger and larger companies with the prospect of a simpler workplace collaboration tool, the company said it has now hit 8 million daily active users. The company said it also has 3 million paid users. A darling in Silicon Valley, Slack was initially able to capitalize on pe...

Google Assistant is coming to Google Mapsabout 11 hours agoGoogle wants to bundle its voice assistant into every device and app. And it’s true that it makes sense to integrate Google Assistant in Google Maps. It’ll be available on iOS and Android this summer. At Google I/O, director of Google Assistant Lilian Rincon showed a demo of Google Maps with Goog...

Uber adds another flying taxi partnerabout 10 hours agoUber has teamed up with Karem Aircraft to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles for the ride-hailing company’s upcoming flying taxi service, the companies announced today at Uber Elevate. Karem Aircraft, which has patented Optimum Speed Tiltroter technology for military a...

Watch Google I/O developer keynote live right hereabout 10 hours agoGoogle I/O is nowhere near done. While the mainstream keynote just ended, the company is about to unveil the next big things when it comes to APIs, SDKs, frameworks and more. The developer keynote starts at 12:45 PM Pacific Time (3:45 PM on the East Cost, 8:45 PM in London, 9:45 PM in Paris) and ...

Google Maps will soon give you better recommendationsabout 10 hours agoGoogle will soon launch a new version of Google Maps that will give you more personalized recommendations than before. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps is now about far more than just directions, the company is introducing new features to give you better ...

Gamalon scores $20 M led by Intel Capitalabout 9 hours agoGamalon wants to change the game when it comes to understanding text-based customer communications. Instead of using neural networks to learn about a vast corpus of information, the startup takes a different approach, putting the text in a database and building decision trees to very rapidly trai...

Intel Capital pumps $72M into AI, IoT, cloud and silicon startups, $115M invested so far in 2018about 9 hours agoIntel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern Ca...

Google opens Instant Apps to all game developersabout 9 hours agoInstant Apps for Android have been one of Google’s most interesting technologies for mobile developers. In their earliest incarnation, Instant Apps were mostly useful for developers of relatively straightforward apps. Earlier this year, Google launched its beta of Instant Apps for games, too, whi...

How 3D printing is revolutionizing the housing industry about 6 hours agoIf you build it, they will come. And if you 3D-print it, they will come faster, cheaper and more sustainably.

Maps walking navigation is Google’s most compelling use for AR yetabout 7 hours agoGoogle managed to elicit an audible gasp from the crowd at I/O today when it showed off a new augmented feature for Maps. It was a clear standout during a keynote that contained plenty of iterative updates to existing software, and proved a key glimpse into what it will take to move AR from inter...

Google Assistant is getting support for custom and scheduled routinesabout 7 hours agoRoutines are probably one of the best features the Google Assistant team has rolled out in recent months. Just say “Hey Google, good night” and the Assistant will shut down your lights and start playing some nature sounds to soothe you into deep sleep (or whatever else you want it to do). One lim...

Push notifications could get better at targeting usabout 15 hours agoI’m deeming this year the year of the push notification solely because of the disaster that was Hawaii’s accidental ballistic missile alert. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I look into why people turn push notifications on, especially for news. Are they masochists? ...

Gmail’s Smart Compose will write emails for youabout 11 hours agoAt its annual developers conference, Google announced a new feature coming to Gmail called Smart Compose. An extension of Gmail’s Smart Reply feature, Smart Compose will suggest complete sentences within the body of an email as you are writing. It will operate in the background, and if you see a ...

Android P’s ‘actions’ and ‘slices’ are a whole new way to use mobile appsabout 11 hours agoWith Android P, Google is taking an ambitious approach to its user interface design with two new concepts it’s introducing to developers today: “Actions” and “Slices.” Described in detail onstage at the company’s I/O developer conference keynote this morning, Actions and Slices are ways for third...

JBL’s Android-powered soundbar does a lot of things rightabout 9 hours agoWe just took a quick look at a 3D-printed prototype of the recently announced JBL Link Bar, a soundbar that also happens to be a set-top box running Android TV. It’s not coming out until later this summer, and a lot of stuff isn’t quite working yet. But the core ideas are pretty smart. Basically,...

Qualcomm is finally designing new chips for Wear OS smartwatchesabout an hour agoAs you may know, all Wear OS watches that come out today have little option but to use the same core chip inside: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100, which dates back to February 2016. Some have argued that this is what’s holding the entire Wear OS — née Android Wear — platform back. I personally th...