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Polk’s Assist is a pricey $200 audio upgrade for Google Home fans

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by on August 29, 2018 at 11:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Polk Audio has made a name for itself with solid budget- and mid-range audio equipment, and over the past year, it’s been dipping its toes into the smart speaker segment. Its latest connected offering is the Polk Assist, a $200 speaker that’s basically a Google Home on steroids – at least on the audio front. Given that the Home now costs just $100 (down from its original price of $130), the Assist is twice as expensive as Google’s own offering. I put the Assist through its paces over the past few weeks to see if it delivers twice the aural…

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Nearly half of the world’s top universities teach blockchain

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by on August 29, 2018 at 10:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Eight out of the top 10 universities that offer blockchain courses are based in the US, according to a new report compiled by popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The research has more broadly uncovered that 42 percent of the world’s top universities offer at least one academically endorsed course. Leading the way is Stanford which offers 10 blockchain-based courses. Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania take up second and third place by offering nine and six blockchain courses, respectively. There are only two universities in the top ten that aren’t based in the US. The National University of Singapore placed…

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Nearly half of the world’s top universities teach blockchain

Aug29
by on August 29, 2018 at 10:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Eight out of the top 10 universities that offer blockchain courses are based in the US, according to a new report compiled by popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The research has more broadly uncovered that 42 percent of the world’s top universities offer at least one academically endorsed course. Leading the way is Stanford which offers 10 blockchain-based courses. Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania take up second and third place by offering nine and six blockchain courses, respectively. There are only two universities in the top ten that aren’t based in the US. The National University of Singapore placed…

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Don’t worry, Alexa and Google Home won’t take away your regional accent

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by on August 29, 2018 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Hey, Google. Can you understand my accent? Of course. You have an incredibly pleasing dialect. So began my Saturday morning discussion with my Google Home Mini. And while I was happy to receive a compliment about my speech, that wasn’t my motivation for asking the question. Our human-to-robot chat was triggered by recent news reports claiming that voice assistants are likely to “stamp out”, “kill off” and make us “lose” our regional accents, described by some as “under threat”. Another apocalyptic story about language and another call for linguists to do some myth-busting, then. These scaremongering headlines relate to the…

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Don’t worry, Alexa and Google Home won’t take away your regional accent

Aug29
by on August 29, 2018 at 10:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Hey, Google. Can you understand my accent? Of course. You have an incredibly pleasing dialect. So began my Saturday morning discussion with my Google Home Mini. And while I was happy to receive a compliment about my speech, that wasn’t my motivation for asking the question. Our human-to-robot chat was triggered by recent news reports claiming that voice assistants are likely to “stamp out”, “kill off” and make us “lose” our regional accents, described by some as “under threat”. Another apocalyptic story about language and another call for linguists to do some myth-busting, then. These scaremongering headlines relate to the…

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