You now have the option to have Cortana as your default assistant on Android

If you rely heavily on Microsoft’s Cortana assistant and use an Android phone, you’re going to like the latest update. The app can now be your default assistant on your smartphone. Much like with Google Assistant, when you long-press your home button, it can pull up Cortana. And if you do enable it, you can carry over the actions you do on your smartphone with your Windows 10 laptop or PC. So if you miss a call, you can be alerted on your PC or if you create a reminder on your laptop, it’ll show up on your smartphone.

It’s pretty simple to change digital assistants. You just let the app walk you through the process when you install and log in. It’ll prompt you to change from the Assist app to Cortana. One downside is Google won’t let you launch Cortana by voice. You’ll still have to do it the old-fashioned way and tap on the button.

Source: Android Police

Google to rely on AI and human oversight to help stop terrorists

Google, like all the other giant tech companies, are under pressure to help get rid of extremists’ online presence. And the tech giant’s response to this includes four steps to help flag and remove pro-terrorism content on its pages, especially on YouTube. One way is to rely on its machine learning tech that can automatically flag and take out terrorist videos. At the same time, it’ll keep up “innocently-posted” clips like news reports. Another way is to build on its counter-radicalization system, which will show anti-extremist ads to would-be terrorist recruits and pull ads from extremist videos.

But artificial intelligence won’t be enough, as Google acknowledges. The company intends to “greatly increase” the number of people who are part of its YouTube Trusted Flagger program to help find these terrorist material faster. The company is also working with anti-extremism groups to help get rid of recruiting-oriented content. Google even wants to take on videos on YouTube it sees as containing “inflammatory” religious or supremacist material. These will come with warnings and Google will stop them from getting ad revenue, viewing recommendations, and comments. Whether these measures will work is an entirely different story, but we appreciate the effort.

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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ gets VR treatment, puts you in Spidey’s suit

If you’re wondering what it’s like to become Spider-Man, you can get a virtual reality taste of this. To promote the release of the film Spider-Man: Homecoming next month. There is a VR version of Spider-Man that puts you right into his new high-tech suit. You’ll be doing things like swinging through New York City using web shooters and take on Spider-Man’s rival in the film, The Vulture. In the US, moviegoers at select Cinemark theatres get to try this out at Intel-branded kiosks. If you want to experience it with your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR, you’ll need to wait until June 30^th.

 Source: Mashable