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There’s finally a male voice option for Google Assistant. Still, the female voice we know and love retains her top spot. Google’s male voice is referred to as “Voice II.” SEE ALSO: Bose launches new flagship headphones with Google Assistant You can change to Voice II under Preferences > Assistant Voice in the Assistant or …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelA grandmother with the best intentions almost corrupted her innocent 6-year-old granddaughter. Tiffany, who goes by Tiffany1985B on Twitter, recently shared a hilarious story about a book her mother had purchased for her daughter. The book, titled If Animals Could Talk, seemed innocent enough, but when the family opened it up they discovered it was …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelWhoever is responsible for the Mayor of San Juan’s T-shirt collection, we’d like to take this time to thank you. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, not one to mince her words or protest T-shirts, wore a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “NASTY” on it to a Univision interview Wednesday morning. Yulín Cruz’s T-shirt appears to …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelCan Newton, the Super Bowl-losing quarterback of the Carolina Panthers, dropped a shockingly smug, sexist comment on Wednesday after a female journalist asked him a question. Here’s the exchange between Newton and Jourdan Rodrigue of the Charlotte Observer. After being asked whether he enjoyed the fact that his wide receiver “really seemed to embrace the …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelIn case you’ve been living in the upside-down for the last few weeks, the second season of “Stranger Things” is imminent. And you know what that means… media tie-ins! Today we’ve already had AR “stickers” at Google’s event, but iOS gets a much more compelling item: a full-on SNES-style demake of the show. Read More …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelIs Google making a big mistake? The company is swapping its “mobile first” strategy for an “AI first” one, and it did so in such a public way. It’s a bold move and probably necessary for a software company that wants to drive millions of hardware sales on the back of its Google Assistant. Going …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelIf someone asked us if we’d rather win a million dollars or go grocery shopping with Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres, it’d be a difficult choice. On Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the queens of daytime TV had the time of their lives taking a shopping trip to a grocery store in Los …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelDespite the onslaught of leaks in the days and weeks leading up to Google’s big Pixel launch, the company managed to fit in a few surprises. One of the biggest was the new Pixel Buds, bluetooth wireless earbuds optimized for Google’s new Pixel phones. But the Pixel Buds are much more than just wireless earbuds, …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelJust to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. VR uses are endless, whether you’re proposing to your girlfriend or terrifying your new employees, but its most tried and true application is definitely gaming. Gamers were some of the first adopters of VR and now Samsung has …
October 4, 2017 | by RaheelMidway through their poem, “summer, somewhere,” Danez Smith offers a vision of utopia: “Paradise is a world where everything/ is sanctuary & nothing is a gun.” The poem, the opening of Smith’s National Book Award-nominated collection Don’t Call Us Dead, is a 25-page long elegy to the boys who were killed, in which the narrator …
October 4, 2017 | by Raheel