Reuters
Nae bother
, has put out a call on website Reddit for people with Scottish accents to submit recordings of themselves reading certain phrases to help train its software. Users with certain accents – particularly Scottish – have complained that voice recognition systems such as those used in Google Now and Apple’s Siri struggle to understand them.
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from Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex last week. The theft of the bitcoins, worth around £55 million at the time, caused the cryptocurrency’s value to plummet 20 per cent.
One for the road
when you’ve been drinking – but putting one on before you start could save your life. A team at the University of California, San Diego, has designed a smart tattoo that detects alcohol levels in your sweat and sends a reading to your phone. The team hopes to cut down on drink-driving and says the patch’s sensor could also be linked to a car’s ignition system.
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