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Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important

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by on May 16, 2019 at 1:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, High Contrast, Insider


In our ongoing series, High Contrast, we’re looking at how assistive technology can help people with disabilities overcome challenges in their lives, and the pioneers innovating in solutions to make everyday tools more accessible. Today marks the eighth annual  Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an event that was set into motion in 2011 to spread awareness about the importance of digital access and inclusion and how technology can help empower people with different disabilities. The idea for GAAD started with a simple post by Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon. “First, let’s agree on a Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This…

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Big, greedy Ethereum whales account for 33 percent of cryptocurrency’s supply

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by on May 16, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Ethereum whales account for just 7 percent of transaction activity in the market – but they control a third of the cryptocurrency’s entire circulating supply. That’s according to a new study by Chainanalysis which found that although these whales don’t have a sizeable impact on Ether’s price, their large sell-offs do make the market more volatile on a daily basis. For context, whales are defined as the top 500 cryptocurrencies excluding services, who keep their coins off exchanges. As of May 1, 2019, Chainalaysis’ research showed that out of the top 500 holders, 124 were services and the remaining 376…

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Google’s new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice

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by on May 16, 2019 at 12:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, taking pics of text, and using speech-to-text technology. Now, the company’s launching a new project called Translatotron, which will offer direct speech-to-speech translations – without even using any text. In a post on Google’s AI blog, the team behind the tool explained that instead of using speech-to-text and then text-to-speech to convert voice, it relied on a new model (which runs on a neural network) to develop the new system. “Dubbed Translatotron, this system avoids dividing the task into separate stages, providing…

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‘PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DEPOSITS,’ begs dying shitcoin factory Cryptopia

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by on May 16, 2019 at 10:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It seems some overzealous cryptocurrency traders didn’t get the memo that exchange service Cryptopia is shutting down – and they’re still trying to make deposits to the platform. In a tweet earlier today, the embattled exchange warned users not to send funds to the trading platform. The message was written in all caps, so you know they meant it. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY DEPOSITS TO CRYPTOPIA. — Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) May 16, 2019 It’s odd the exchange hadn’t blocked deposits – especially since it’s going out of business. For those new to the Cryptopia drama, the New Zealand-based exchange announced it is…

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