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Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unde Tests By A Small Number of Pixel Smartphones Users

Google has finally begun to test its Google Duplex artificial intelligence in real-world applications via a small number of Pixel smartphone users. The AI system was presented during this year’s Google I/O conference, held in May, and which has been tested to a limited extent in the USA, where it has reached a small number of users on their Google Pixel smartphones.

As Google has confirmed to the news portal Venture Beat, through some Google Pixel smartphones, it is already possible to use Duplex to make phone calls autonomously with which the “app” can make bookings in the name of the user in some restaurants or hairdressers in the United States.

Duplex is activated directly through the Google Assistant and works only in the English version, for the moment, at least. Its functions include the possibility to call external businesses, not just Google partners, and for the moment they are limited only to restaurants, and not to hairdressers as Google announced back in May.

Via Google Duplex artificial intelligence tests, it has been shown that the service works through a button that becomes available when you search for a restaurant in the Google Assistant.

Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence Is Now Unde Tests By A Small Number of Pixel Smartphones Users

Among its features, Duplex only allows reservations for a maximum of ten people, and also asks for other relevant data such as the date and time of the booking. For calls, you use the user’s phone number in your Google Account, but you can select another one. The reservations made through Duplex are automatically synchronized with the Google Assistant and the Google Calendar.

The restaurants that can be accessed through the Duplex artificial intelligence system are still limited, and Google has offered the option to those businesses that do not wish to attend to this program the possibility of deactivating this option through their Google Account for businesses.

At the moment, Google is testing the Duplex artificial intelligence only among a small number of Pixel smartphones users in the United States, and just in a few cities. After the initial tests, the function will be extended to a more significant number of testers, according to the company.

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Google Chrome To Add Scrolling Tabs Feature Similar To What We Have In Firefox

Google is working on a new Chome update that will include the ability to scroll through the browser taskbar tabs. A handy feature that Firefox has had for a long time and which has served as an “inspiration” for Google engineers.

We usually tend to open a lot of tabs, depending on what we’re up to when working with Google Chrome. Having a more straightforward way to switch from one tab to another would be ideal. We already have that in Firefox, but, let’s be honest, Chrome is the most popular browser ever made, so millions of users around the world would be thankful for the new feature of scrolling tabs.

In a Chrome session, each tab you add reduces the size of the previous tabs on the taskbar. The more tabs we have open, the smaller they will be, and the more difficult would be to locate a specific tab. Mozilla has long provided a solution for its Firefox and is simple but effective. It added scroll arrows placed on the bar or the possibility to use the mouse wheel for scrolling between tabs.

Google Chrome To Add Scrolling Tabs Feature Similar To What We Have In Firefox

Google announced that it’s working on a similar solution that would come in a future Chrome update., as reported by TechDows. The idea is not to reduce the size of the tabs to the point where it would be challenging to locate specific ones, and, as a Google engineer explained on Reddit, this function is already in works. He did not reveal when this feature would come out in Chrome, but we presume it would be pretty soon.

“Scrollable tabs are on their way. In the meantime, you can click Shift and Ctrl to select several tabs at once and then drag them out to separate the windows and group them into another one,” the Google engineer said on Reddit.

The new Google Chrome feature is not yet available in the browser’s beta versions but could be added soon, so keep an eye on next Google Chrome Beta versions.

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Windows 10 October 2018 Update Conflicts With Specific Intel Drivers

Microsoft’s operating system update, Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is already the company’s worst release to date, according to many reports from both IT specialists and regular users. After the update rolled out, it began to come to light the multitude of bugs it contained, culminating with the error that deleted the personal files of some users.

In the middle of this month, Microsoft released a supposed version that corrected these bugs, but others have remained untouched and are still causing a lot of problems for users. Facing with this humiliating situation, Microsoft has chosen to block the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for some users because of some conflict with specific audio drivers of the computers that upgraded to the new version.

Some users have witnessed that the sound on their computers shuts down unexpectedly, while others have observed that their screens turn darker with no apparent reasons. Also, the most unfortunate users are still experiencing the deletion of personal files caused by Windows 10 October 2018 Update, although they installed the patch that supposedly fixes this issue.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update Still Causing Problems For Users

Microsoft has come out to report on some compatibility problems between its Windows 10 October 2018 Update with several Intel drivers released in September. The giant tech company points out that these activate functions that are not compatible with Windows and therefore cause the failures.

Those affected drivers include versions 24.20.100.6344 and 24.20.100.6345, which cause Microsoft to be blocking the Windows 10 October 2018 Update on specific computers, as well as advising users to contact technical support to disable the incompatibility. To find out if your computer is affected by this issues, you have to go to the Device Manager, display the Screen Adapters tab, right-click on the Intel drivers and click Properties.

There you must check the version of the driver and, if you find one of the before-mentioned ones, contact Microsoft for help.

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Can You Get Malware and Virus Through SHAREit?

SHAREit is the most popular cross-platform file sharing app for Android and iOS, as well as for Windows and Mac. With SHAREit, users can send and receive all types of files without a hassle. But, since it’s a file sharing app, it raised some concerns for some users who wonder whether they are at risk of infecting their devices or not. So, can you get malware and virus through SHAREit?

SHAREit is considered the fastest file sharing app on the Internet, and, when considering its popularity on official app stores such as Google Play Store and iOS App Store, we have to believe that. In reality, it depends on your Internet connection, no matter what people would say. However, it’s an excellent app, and it allows us to send and receive images, videos, documents, installation packs, wallpapers, and anything else.

Also, SHAREit comes with a builtin video player that runs videos and movies smoothly, along with a music player that permits us to access our favorite music without the need to download it.

Can You Get Malware and Virus Through SHAREit?

First, you should know that SHAREit itself is not a malware or spyware. It’s a clean application, available for mobile devices on both Android’s Google Play Store and iOS App Store, as well as on Windows 10 and Mac. However, it’s a file sharing app, so you’ll expose your devices to potentially-infected files that you receive from others.

To avoid getting malware and virus through SHAREit, always have a running antivirus on your device whenever you download something via this filesharing app. However, you should only be worrying about viruses and malware programs if receiving a potentially-infected file from a device running the same OS as yours since an Android virus, for example, won’t work on iOS, or vice-versa.

In conclusion, SHAREit app is clean and safe, but the files you receive through it might be infected so always have antivirus software running to avoid contaminating your device.

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MX Player 1.10.23 Is Now Available on Google Play Store

MX Player is by far the best video player for Android devices. It boasts a lot of features and comes with support for virtually any video format and subtitles. It’s so appreciated and popular that it got 4.5 stars out of 5 on Google Play Store (out of about 7 million reviews) and totaled more than 500 million downloads on Android’s official app store. Now, MX Player 1.10.23 is available with new features and improvements.

A couple of days ago, J2 Interactive, MX Player’s devs, launched the new MX Player version for Android, which is available on Google Play Store since yesterday.

MX Player is an excellent video player for Android. It comes with a user-friendly interface, pleasing to the eye, allowing users to access all the app’s functions quickly. You can also watch videos in fullscreen mode with MX Players and make use of the intuitive playback control. Besides, this excellent video player supports almost all the video formats in the world, such as FLV, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOVE, MKV, and more than 12 subtitle formats, including SUB, IDX, SMI, and TXT.

MX Player 1.10.23 Is Now Available on Google Play Store

Launched a couple of days ago by J2 Interactive, the new MX Player 1.10.23 version is available on Google Play Store since yesterday. The new version brings some exciting new features and improvements.

J2 Interactive decided to add support for PLS playlists and to implement an auto-reconnection feature to allow MX Player to connect again to the network streams whenever the playback fails before the end of the stream. Also, the new MX Player 1.10.23 version comes with several fixes, including the crashes caused by the accessibility services on the opensubtitles.org login screen.

Besides all that, MX Player 1.10.23 also comes with improved stability and performance. To enjoy this excellent video player, which thanks to the latest update just got better than ever, download it from Google Play Store.

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