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Amazon’s Alexa assistant now speaks Hindi

Sep18
by on September 18, 2019 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India, Voice


Amazon officially today announced suppor for Hindi in its Alexa virtual assistant, allowing users to issue voice commands in the fourth most spoken language in the world. The development comes more than a year after Google introduced Hindi support in Google Assistant. Using machine learning and deep learning models, Amazon said it has addressed the contextual and cultural challenges that helps Alexa understand Hindi better and serve relevant responses to voice queries. With over 30,000 skills catering to Indian users across entertainment, education, and sports, Rohit Prasad — VP and Head Scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon — said that more than 500 skills…

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The iPhone 11 has the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 6 and you shouldn’t give a shit

Sep18
by on September 18, 2019 at 7:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Apple revealed its new series of iPhones last week. While the company released almost all specifications of these devices such as processor, camera sensors, and screen resolution, their RAM and battery sizes were unknown. Now, thanks to the Chinese certification site, TENAA, we know about these specs too. All three phones – the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max – have a RAM of 4GB. This is the same amount of RAM as in the iPhone 6 (or whichever model). It doesn’t matter because, regardless of what specifications sheets and benchmarks tell you, Apple…

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Over 13.7M US medical test records found unsecured on servers

Sep18
by on September 18, 2019 at 7:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure servers that did not have basic security precautions in place, a new investigation by ProPublica has found. “Data from more than 13.7 million medical tests in the US were available online, including more than 400,000 in which X-rays and other images could be downloaded,” the report said. The findings — published by the investigative journalism non-profit and German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk — found 187 unprotected servers in the US and five in Germany, which were used to host sensitive data such as patient…

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