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How to Manually Enable Dark Mode in Android P
Beta 3 / Developer Preview 4 for Android P is officially here and there is one highlight feature worth mentioning for those with low vision, a manual dark mode.
How To Disable Fingerprint and Facial Recognition on Your Phone
Opening your phone with your fingerprint or facial recognition is convenient. But in the United States and possibly most other countries, enabling Touch ID or Face ID gives law enforcement free access to your phone if you’re arrested. Thankfully iOS and Android let you temporarily turn off fingerprint or face recognition with various methods.
Apple Developing Device and Wearable to Help Deaf and Blind Travelers
Apple is developing technology that would combine a cylindrical device and possibly smart clothing to provide blind and deaf people tactile or auditory signals to navigate their environments.
How to force quit apps on Your Mac
How to force quit apps on Your Mac
TweetDeck releases Update Support for Image Descriptions
TweetDeck has released an update that allows people to “make their tweets accessible to the widest possible audience.” Users can now add descriptions, or alternative text, to images they share in tweets.
Bookshare’s 390,000 Books Are Now Available for People with Blindness in India
Benetech announced a major expansion of the ongoing international effort to provide Bookshare, an ebook library for people with reading barriers in India.
Ask Chloe to Read the Label on Your Prescription Bottles
A recent collaboration between the AT&T Foundry for Connected Health (located in the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute) and Aira, which makes smart glasses for people who are blind or have low vision, now has a solution to reading the tiny print on prescription bottles.
How to Guarantee Your Phone’s Fingerprint Reader Works Every Time
The fingerprint reader on your iPhone or Android phone always seems to fail enough on the first try. It can be anything from your fingertip not fully covering the sensor, wet hands or possibly the phone didn’t get an accurate read when you first registered your fingerprint.
By registering the same fingerprint more than once, you’re increasing the chances of your phone capturing enough data to unlock the first time. That’s because when you register your fingertip in the phone settings, it isn’t always clear which parts of your print the software has captured. A somewhat helpful animation or audible feedback will urge you to lift your finger to capture more area, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect the data your phone’s actually storing.
Google Assistant Wants to be Your Personal Secretary, But at What Cost?
Google is gearing up to release its Duplex technology that was presented at the Google I/O event in May 2018.
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