Sunday
Jun262022

An Amazon Alexa feature can mimic the voice of your dead relatives

Here's one Amazon Alexa feature I don't think I'll ever want to try. Amazon is experimenting with its AI assistant to let it mimic the voices of users' dead relatives. The company demoed it recently during its MARS conference, where they showed a video of a child asking Alexa to read a bedtime story in the voice of his dead grandmother.

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Sunday
Jun262022

Facebook discontinues Watch app on Apple TV

Source: 9to5Mac

The Facebook Watch app on the Apple TV is no more. The company confirmed with 9to5Mac that it no longer supports the tvOS platform, even though, strangely enough, it gets a new logo, and the app still appears on the App Store. If you update to the latest app version, you'll no longer get access to it. Instead, you see a message saying the app "is no longer available." It'll mention that you can watch the videos on Facebook's site. However, since tvOS doesn't have a browser, you can only watch Facebook videos when you use AirPlay from another Apple device.

Saturday
Jun252022

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup – 6/19 – 6/25

Saturday
Jun252022

Apple Music's student plan gets a price increase in Canada

Apple hasn't announced it, but the price for the student plan on Apple Music has increased slightly. In Canada and the US, it's a jump from $4.99 to $5.99 per month. The UK is expecting a similar jump in British pounds. It has been spotted on the Apple Music webpage, though. The price change seemed to have rolled out between June 21 and 23. The pricing for its monthly individual and family plans remains unchanged. If you want to retain that $4.99, it might be worth looking into the voice plan. But that has more limited access to Apple Music since you can only control the app through Siri.

Back in May, Apple quietly increased the pricing of the student plan in several countries (Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Israel, and Kenya), so it might have just been another scheduled rollout for this price change.

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