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on November 24, 2020 at 7:00 am Russian tech search engine giant Yandex has added the Alice voice assistant to its smart TV platform. Alice allows watchers to use voice commands to search and control playback, continuing Yandex’s efforts to make Alice more widely available and continuing a recent burst of new integrations between voice assistants and smart TVs. Alice TV Yandex launched its smart TV platform in April, working with nine television… Source link

Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new Android AR app,  “The Mandalorian” AR Experience, which will display iconic moments from the first season of the show in AR, allowing fans to retrace the Mandalorian’s steps, find the Child, harness the Force, and more, according to the app’s Play Store description. In the app, users will be… Source link

GlobeNewswire Stingray Renews and Expands Distribution Agreement with TELUS Long-Term Agreement Covers Multi-Product Offering Including the Qello Concerts by Stingray TV App for Optik TV SubscribersMONTREAL, Nov. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stingray Group Inc. (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B), a leading music, media, and technology company, today announced that it has reached a long-term agreement with TELUS that continues to advance the companies’ long-standing partnership. As part of the deal, Optik TV… Source link

Google parent company Alphabet’s third quarter revenue increased 14 percent from the year before, led by a rebound in advertising revenue for both Google and YouTube. YouTube brought in $5 billion in advertising revenue in the third quarter of 2020 — a sign that advertisers who pulled back on their spending because of the coronavirus earlier in the year may be returning to something resembling normal. YouTube now has more than 30 million music and premium paid subscribers — 35… Source link

There’s an AR ghost on Google Search. There’s a dancing skeleton, set of creepy jack-o’-lanterns, and costumed cats and dogs, too. Ahead of Halloween weekend in the U.S., Google has launched a set of fun, augmented reality-powered features on Google Search which appear as an option when you search for specific Halloween terms using a mobile device. For example, if you search for the word “Halloween” and scroll down the search results page, you’ll see a box that prompts you… Source link

One of the more useful features you can access through Assistant on Android and iOS is Google Lens translations. The tool allows you to snap a photo of something in the real world and let Lens transcribe the text into a language you can read. Google is now making that functionality available on KaiOS phones in India.  KaiOS, if you need a refresher, is an operating system for feature phones that includes select Google services. As of last year, the software was running on more than 80… Source link

(Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Google is said to be working on integrating its Gmail for G suite with Chat, Meet and Rooms for its enterprise users. In the planned interface, G Suite users can join a video call from a chat window, forward a chat message to their inbox, and create a task from a chat message, all this while staying under the same tab. “We’re integrating core tools like video, chat,… Source link