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In the world of smart assistants, Amazon Alexa is one of the most popular and widely-used. It’s accessible through smart speakers, phones, and smartwatches, and while it’s an incredibly powerful tool, the convenience of using it comes at the expense of your privacy. Privacy concerns surrounding Alexa, Google Assistant, etc. …

Childish Gambino wants to take you on an augmented reality journey into his universe with the launch of his new multiplayer app, Pharos AR, available on Android from today, and coming soon to iOS. Childish Gambino’s legendary dance moves came to Google Pixel range’s Playground earlier this year, and gave …

In an ideal world we’d all have a single Google ID to which all our contacts, data, media and apps are tied, that we carry with us to each phone, tablet or PC into which we sign in. In reality that’s often not the case. In my own experience I had cause …

If you’re looking to buy a new business PC, HP is currently offering a “buy more, save more” discount that gets activated at 3 different price points, and using a special code.  Configure your new PC to the $599+ price point and apply code BMSM60 to save $60. Or configure …

A Google offshoot just got the FAA’s first go-ahead for drone deliveries. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday authorized Alphabet’s Wing Aviation to start delivering goods via drones later this year. Wing will start delivering commercial packages in unmanned aircraft in Blacksburg, Virginia. It partnered with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership …

In a co-written letter, Meredith Whittaker — one of two Google employees who claim they’ve faced retaliation for organizing protests against their employer’s treatment of sexual harassment — alleged that she’d been pressured by Google to “abandon her work” at the AI Now Institute, which she’d helped to found, and …

MiG-31 Russian Air Force MiG-31 radar Almost exactly two years ago, a Russian Air Force MiG-31 Foxhound supersonic interceptor went down during an exercise over the Telemba proving grounds in Buryatia, a Siberian semi-autonomous Russian republic that borders Mongolia. (Telemba was one of the sites for Vostok, Russia’s giant wargames …

Serial entrepreneur and former Mozilla creative lead Aza Raskin reminds me that he invented the infinite scroll–not boastfully, but a tad sheepishly. That’s because the technology, which enables the next article to automatically load as you scroll to the end of the current one (as you experience on Fast Company), can …

Using big data to create value for external customers and internal teams Zhe Zhang, manager of Core Big Data at LinkedIn, discusses open source deep learning and artificial intelligence tools used at LinkedIn. In theory, data lakes sound like a good idea: One big repository to store all data your …

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. The iPad Pro and iPad Mini have their sweet spots, but the new Air is Apple’s best bang for your buck.Image: apple/pexels/mashable photo composite By Leah StodartMashable Deals2019-04-24 16:35:08 UTC Since the iPad …