After a preview offered access to Skype's live translation tool on the desktop earlier this summer, the feature is rolling out to all users. If you're in need of a quick refresher, Skype Translator converts video calls in English, French, German, I…
Sitting your family down for a TV viewing of your entire smartphone camera roll just got easier; Google has updated its Google Photos app to support Chromecast. The company announced that it would introduce compatibility between the photos service and Google’s popular $35 streaming stick (newly refreshed with new features) at this week’s Nexus event. The latest Google Photos update also allows you to label people in your photos with custom names.
„These labels are completely private to you and are not associated with a Google account or profile,“ the Photos team wrote in a blog post earlier this week. „Once people in your photos are labeled, you can make advanced searches to find photos of people with things, places or people, such as…
Microsoft is now starting to integrate third-party services directly into Cortana. While the software maker has allowed developers to extend the functionality of Cortana to their own apps for a number of months now, a new LinkedIn partnership sees the services move closer together. If you use Cortana for Windows 10 you can now connect your LinkedIn account to Cortana to access more information about contacts and their photos from LinkedIn.
If you connect both accounts then Cortana will use LinkedIn to provide you with information about people you’re meeting with for calendar appointments. Microsoft has previously used this type of integration in Outlook before, but this is the first time we’ve seen the company open up its connected…
Self-driving cars are a few years away from becoming a thing, right? Not in Japan, where the company Robot Taxi has announced that it'll start testing robotic taxis in 2016. A report by the Wall Street Journal reveals that the firm will begin by of…
Orbbec has launched an “Astra Pro” 3D depth camera, also available in an Ubuntu- and Android-based “Persee” computer, with an 8m range and …