Everything you need to know about iOS 14’s widgets

Oct02
by on October 2, 2020 at 9:20 pm
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. iOS 14 now lets you install widgets on your screen — a useful new feature that completely changes how your phone screen looks, depending on how many of them you use. So how do you use them? Let us explain. Apple introduced several new features to iOS 14 that change the way the phone looks — including the ability to hide apps without deleting them. But one that changes how you use the apps themselves…

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Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem by giving you control instead

Oct02
by on October 2, 2020 at 7:18 am
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Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter‘s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and dark-skinned people, the social network’s algorithm often showed the light-skinned person in the preview. Trying a horrible experiment… Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia — Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri 🦀 (@bascule) September 19, 2020 At that time, Twitter said, while its algorithm was tested for bias, it will conduct further investigations to resolve the issue. Last night, in an update, the company said it’s…

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Xiaomi’s Mi Smart Speaker is bass-heavy and surprisingly inexpensive

Oct01
by on October 1, 2020 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Plugged


Amazon Echo and Google Nest (formerly known as Google Home) have mostly dominated the smart speaker space in India. These speakers are not exactly cheap by domestic standards in India. You’d have to spend anywhere between ₹3,500 ($47.50) to ₹5,000 ($68) to get their smallest speakers — namely, the Echo Dot and the Nest Mini. Xiaomi is aiming to take over that segment by offering better specs at an affordable price with its Mi Smart Speaker. The device is a spec-equivalent to the mid-sized Amazon Echo and Google Nest. Its introductory price is just ₹3,499($47.50), after which it’ll likely increase by a…

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