Human Workers Listen to Your Google Assistant Conversations, and Google Thinks It’s Okay I don’t think it would come as a surprise to anyone that Google uses audio recordings of the things we say to the Google Assistant on our phones and Google’s smart speakers. After all, data collection is one of the many ways that Google not only earns money, but also trains its AI, making its services better over time to get us to use them even more and give Google more data....

iPhone X, XS Prices May Drop Soon in India; Here’s Why Theexorbitant pricesof Apple’s top-end iPhones may reduce somewhat in the coming days with India-made iPhone X and iPhone XS units slated to hit store shelves next month. According to Reuters, iPhone X and XS devices are being assembled by Foxconn at its facility in Tamil Nadu, which would help Apple save on import duties levied by the Indian government....

Tinder CEO Says He’s Not Worried About Competition from Facebook During its F8 developer conference in May this year, Facebook announced its new dating feature that would let users connect with their secret crushes on the social network. That sounds like something Facebook could be incredibly great at, considering the sheer amount of data it already has on users, and also the fact that your secret crushes are most likely already on Facebook even though they might not be on otherdating apps....

Twitter to Start Testing a New ‘Hide Replies’ Feature Next Week Social networking site Twitter has announced that it will finally begin testing its new ‘Hide Replies’ feature next week. The company has been talking about the feature since early this year, and it’ll finally be rolling it out to users in Canada. The new feature aims to give users more control over the conversations they start on the platform. So now, when a user tweets about something, they’ll be able to select comments that they don’t want to be visible on their tweet, and hide them away....

Windows 10 Home vs Windows 10 Pro: Which One Should You Choose If you have landed on this article, you are most probably gearing up to upgrade your PC to the latest iteration of Windows. But just like many Microsoft Windows users, you also can’t decide whether to embrace Windows 10 Home or go for the full-on Windows 10 Pro. Let’s put the bigger picture out of the way; while Home edition is designed for everyday normal user, the Pro edition is primed for professionals who want better control and use their Windows devices more efficiently....

Xiaomi Teases the Launch of its Mi A3 Android One Smartphone A day after a massive leak seemingly revealed several key pieces of information about the Mi A3, Xiaomi has released its first official teaser about its next-gen Android One device. The company earlier today posted the above image on itsofficial forumsas well as its social media accounts with a couple of lines of text that all but announced the impending launch of the smartphone....

You Can Now Register for the Minecraft Earth Closed Beta In order to mark its tenth anniversary earlier this year in May, Minecraft developer Microsoft announced a new AR version of the game for Android and iOS smartphones that will allow users to turn their real world into a Minecraft playing field thanks to augmented reality. Since then, the company has only said that it will launch a closed beta sometime in the summer, and if you were one of the (presumably) hundreds of thousands of people waiting to get your Minecraft fix in the real world, you’ll be glad to know that registrations for the Minecraft Earth closed beta are now live....