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May 30, 2021 Despite speech increasingly becoming one of the main ways people interact with devices, voice technology remains largely closed off to Africa’s languages, accents, and speech patterns. Case in point: The world’s most popular voice assistants, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant, still don’t support any African languages. The continent has more than 1,000 languages. Common Voice, a crowdsourcing project started by the Mozilla Foundation in 2017, has been addressing this by inviti...

Mozilla expands effort to bring Kiswahili to voice assistants across six African countries ZDNet 2 hrs ago © Mozilla Participants in the Common Voice project work to add their voices during an event in Kigali.  Devices and tools activated through speaking will soon be the primary way people interact with technology, yet none of the main voice assistants, including Amazons Alexa, Apples Siri, and Google Assistant, support a single native African language.  Popular Searches Mozilla has soug...

Executive Summary HTML5 rocketed to the forefront with Apple’s decision to forgo Flash and use HTML5 technology to deliver video to the iPad. Actual HTML5 usage, however, has been slowed by low HTML5-compatible browser penetration, the need to encode video into two or three formats for complete HTML5 compatibility, and the lack of feature parity with Flash, the predominant plug-in based technology for viewing video on the web. HTML5 needs to be on the radar screen of all streaming media produ...

Deplatforming Trump: The Facebook Oversight Board Decision Event information Contact On Wednesday, May 5, the independent Facebook Oversight Board will announce its binding decision on the suspension of Donald Trump following the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Join us for an on-the-record public discussion with Oversight Board members and other experts about the decision and its far-reaching implications. We will be joined by: Facebook Oversight Board Members Ronaldo Lemos, Professor, Rio ...

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SHARE Cloud computing again helped drive much higher-than-expected revenue in Alphabet Inc.’s first-quarter results reported today, but advertising really stole the show this time. The parent company of Google LLC earned a profit of $17.9 billion, or $26.29 a share. That was up nearly threefold from a year ago, setting a new record high for quarterly sales as people quickly shifted to buying more online and advertisers followed them. Gross revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs of $9.71 ...

The Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 88, fixing 13 bugs ranging from high to low severity. The Mozilla Foundation fixed a flaw in its Firefox browser that allowed spoofing of the HTTPS secure communications icon, displayed as a padlock in the browser address window. Successful exploitation of the flaw could have allowed a rogue website to intercept browser communications. Padlock Bug: False Sense of Security Tracked as CVE-2021-23998, the secure-lock-icon bug effects both the consumer and c...

Apr 15, 2021 13:24 EDT with 0 comments The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appea...

Google Faces Ongoing Backlash from AI Researchers 14 Apr 2021 Google is continuing to face strong criticism from the AI research community following the firing of two of the company’s top AI ethics researchers. The Verge reports that tech giant Google is continuing to face significant backlash from its decision to fire Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the company’s top AI ethics researchers who examined the downsides of tech that is integral to Google’s search products. Scott N...

The Brave browser will not support Google's experimental new technology for ad targeting, known as Federated Learning of Cohorts, two senior offic...