Hey Siri | How to change the voice of Apple’s virtual assistant

Hey Siri | How to change the voice of Apple’s virtual assistant

It sounds basic, but many people have no idea that they can change Siri’s voice. Since last year, Apple no longer offers a default setting of its Apple virtual assistant for female or male voice, in a move to generate awareness around bias in voice interfaces. So today I’ll show you how quick it is to change Siri’s voice and other tricks.

Apple AirPods 3 offer a surprising number of Pro features

Apple AirPods 3 offer a surprising number of Pro features

Post Views: 128 Apple announced that the next generation of AirPods is coming next week, just one of several products revealed as part of its Oct. 18 “Unleashed” event. The AirPods 3, or “third-generation AirPods,” as Apple described them, adds many of the features from the AirPods Pro into the standard AirPods design, including Dolby…

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

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Post Views: 124 “These kinds of name changes have always been a part of the technology landscape,” says linguist Anthony Shore, founder of naming company Operative Words. “Anytime companies outgrow and diversify from where they were, it makes it likely that they will have to change their original name, or the name of their holding…

The Apple Watch can tell if you wipe out while biking or running. Here’s how.

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Post Views: 162 A cyclist or runner who heads out for a solo workout and then takes a bad spill could discover that their Apple Watch has automatically called for help, now that Apple has pushed out a software update to its wearable. The new software version, watchOS 8.1, dropped recently, and it includes their…

How Chrome and Safari can help you strengthen your passwords

How Chrome and Safari can help you strengthen your passwords

Post Views: 113 Reusing passwords across multiple accounts is a tempting way to ensure you won’t get locked out of your favorite platforms, but this is a dangerous tactic as far as your online security goes. If hackers gain access to one account, they can get into all others using the same password. Remember—your accounts…