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Whoops, our bad, we just may have ‘accidentally’ left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 8, 2020
In brief Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week. The Chocolate Factory admitted it had accidentally turned on a feature that allowed its voice-controlled AI-based assistant to activate and snoop on its surroundings. Normally, the device only starts actively
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Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016 • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 24, 2020
As the saying goes: Out with the old, in with the… old. After temporarily ditching the iconic Mac “chime” in 2016, Apple is finally bringing it back with the upcoming release of macOS Big Sur. The Mac chime is iconic. On a functional level, it merely indicates that the computer hasn’t identified any hardware or
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Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk helped shape the sound of modern music 0
- BUSINESS
- May 10, 2020
There are few bands whose influence was such that it can unequivocally be said that modern music would sound different without them. Kraftwerk, co-founded by Florian Schneider, whose recent death at the age of 73 was announced on May 6, was one such act. The band left an indelible imprint on the sound of popular
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What does tinnitus sound like?0
- HEALTH
- October 31, 2019
Can you hear a whistling, buzzing, ringing or hissing in your ears? It could be tinnitus – a condition that affects as many as 30% of people at some point in their lives. Tinnitus is very common and people of all ages can get it, including young children. People with hearing loss or other problems
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Humans will sound like whales to future AI 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 30, 2019
WHALE HELLO THERE. Elon Musk thinks you sound like a total chumpback. Not you specifically, you understand, but humans in general – or they will to future generations of AI which will end up thoroughly frustrated listening to the low-bandwidth way in which we transmit data from our fleshy blowholes. “To a computer… a millisecond
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BT announces its plans for 5G rollout that sound strangely like EEs 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 2, 2019
5G will initially be offered to BT Plus customers BEWILDERING LOGO peddler BT has announced its plans for 5G rollout to compliment that of its sister brand EE. BT 5G will roll out in the autumn for both residential and business customers, with the 16 ‘busiest’ cities getting the first tranche of switch-on. By the
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