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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hey NFB Family and Friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There has been so much going on in the technology world the last few weeks, this News you can use is only about technology! Another email will be send with all of the normal updates, career opportunities, things to do etc. Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Tek Talk welcomes Michael Janssen, founder and CEO of AYES Inc., to discuss OKO, the revolutionary new pedestrian crossing app.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>AYES Inc. is developing an AI service to assist the blind and visually impaired to explore cities effortlessly. They have developed a mobile application, called OKO, that assists blind and visually impaired people to receive the status of the pedestrian traffic light and helps you with not veering off when crossing the street. OKO doesn't require any additional infrastructure to be installed so every traffic light becomes accessible. OKO helps you cross the street with more ease and confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1>Presenter Contact Info<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Michael Janssen: founder and CEO of AYES Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Website: <a href="https://www.ayes.ai/oko">https://www.ayes.ai/oko</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>About 10 minutes before each program dial the Zoom numbers or work with your computer link found on your Zoom invitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1>Zoom invitation<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Zoom meeting invitation for this Training Class is the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hi there,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Larry Gassman and Alan Lemly are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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Thanks to accessibility settings on iPhones and Androids—such as screen readers, voice-to-text dictation, and more—our phones can make daily tasks more convenient, especially for people with disabilities. “Using the accessibility features built into most smartphones improves the lives of people with disabilities in exactly the same ways smartphones have improved the everyday lives of everyone,” says Matt Hackert, a nonvisual access technology specialist at the National Federation of the Blind.<o:p></o:p></p><p>These settings aren’t only for people with disabilities, though. Features like captions and sound amplification can help all of us more easily navigate our phones and the world around us. “Anyone can play with these on their iPhone to check out the possibilities,” says Ashley Shew, PhD, a disability tech expert and assistant professor at Virginia Tech.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Whether you live with a disability or just want to use your smartphone more effectively, you’ll want to find out what these accessibility settings do and how to use them on iPhones and Androids. Once you’re a pro, learn other hidden smartphone features you never knew about, such as <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-hide-text-messages-on-an-iphone/">how to hide text messages on an iPhone</a>, <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/android-phone-google-assist-voice-recording/">how to turn off Google Assistant on your Android phone</a>, and <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/iphone-call-history/">how to view (and delete) your iPhone’s call history</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><h2>iPhone accessibility settings<o:p></o:p></h2><p>Apple launched the first iPhone accessibility features in 2009, and the brand has continued to expand its offerings ever since. Today, “Apple builds accessibility into the design process for everything we make so that people can access technology on their terms,” says Sarah Herrlinger, senior director of Apple’s Global Accessibility Policy & Initiatives. Experts recommend checking out the following accessibility settings on iPhones, all of which can be found under Settings > Accessibility. Make sure you’re looped in on these <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/what-apple-insiders-know-about-iphones/">secrets Apple insiders know about iPhones</a>, too.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>VoiceOver<o:p></o:p></h3><p>VoiceOver uses artificial intelligence to provide audible descriptions of items on your screen, from images to battery level to who is calling you. According to Herrlinger, VoiceOver is the world’s most popular mobile screen reader, with 70 percent of blind people using it every day. To turn VoiceOver on or off, go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver and toggle the switch. You can also say, “Hey Siri, turn on VoiceOver” or “Turn off VoiceOver.”<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Zoom<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Want to learn how to zoom in and out on any iPhone screen to see text or images better? Get familiar with Apple’s Zoom feature. “Zoom magnifies the content on the screen and has many options to configure contrast, invert colors, and highlight focus,” says Hackert. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, then turn on Zoom. From there, you can activate the feature any time you need it by double-tapping the screen with three fingers. If you want to see more of the screen, move the Zoom lens by dragging the screen with three fingers. You can turn off Zoom by double-tapping the screen with three fingers again.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Magnifier<o:p></o:p></h3><p>No need to carry around a pair of reading glasses—you can use your iPhone’s camera instead. “[As] a glasses wearer myself, [Magnifier] enables me to use my iPhone like a magnifying glass to read small print on things like medicine bottles and printed materials,” Herrlinger says. To try this feature, go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnifier and toggle the switch to the “on” position. Then open the app on the home screen and point your iPhone’s camera at the text or object you want to magnify. You can zoom in or out with the zoom control slider, or adjust the image’s appearance using the Brightness, Contrast, Color filters, and Flashlight buttons below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=image-credit>rd.com, Getty Images</span> <o:p></o:p></p><h3>Text Size<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Customizing the text settings on iPhones can make the screen easier to see, especially for people with vision challenges. For how to make text bigger on iPhones, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size. There, you can turn on the Larger Accessibility Sizes setting and adjust the size of the text using the Font Size slider. Once you do that, apps like Settings, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes will use your preferred text size rather than the default size. Turns out there are many more <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/iphone-hacks/">hidden iPhone hacks</a> most of us don’t know about.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Text Color and Readability<o:p></o:p></h3><p>iPhone also offers other text customization settings under its Display & Text Size feature, including inverting the display colors, increasing the contrast between the text and background, reducing the intensity of bright colors, and applying color filters. If you have color blindness, you can turn on the Button Shapes setting to underline hyperlinked text or the On/Off Labels setting to show numbers on sliders instead of colors. Like the text size feature, these settings are compatible with all of Apple’s apps, including Settings, Mail, and Messages.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Subtitles and Captions<o:p></o:p></h3><p>When watching videos on your iPhone, you can turn on subtitles and closed captions through iPhone’s accessibility settings. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioning and turn on Closed Captions + SDH for those who are the deaf or hard of hearing. You can even customize the subtitles display by tapping Style, then choosing an existing caption style or creating a new style with your preferred font, size, and color; opacity; and more. Make sure you also know these helpful <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/iphone-keyboard-shortcuts/">iPhone and iPad keyboard shortcuts</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Headphone Accommodations<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Want to know how to turn up the volume on your iPhone beyond the usual audio settings? Certain Apple and Beats headphones can help you amplify and adjust the sounds in the music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts you listen to on your device. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio/Visual > Headphone Accommodations, then turn on Headphone Accommodations. Tap Custom Audio Setup, then follow the instructions to customize the audio settings on your phone. Once you’re finished, you can test it out by tapping Play Sample.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Switch Control<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Switch Control helps iPhone users with limited mobility perform actions like texting and opening apps by clicking a switch instead of tapping. A switch can be a keyboard key, mouse button, trackpad button, joystick, or adaptive device. For users who are nonverbal or nonspeaking, Apple recently launched Sound Actions for Switch Control, which “replaces physical buttons and switches with mouth sounds, like a click, pop, or ‘ee’ sound,” Herrlinger says. Add a new switch under Settings > Accessibility > Switch Control > Switches, then tap Add New Switch and choose a source. Then you can turn on Switch Control by going to Settings > Accessibility > Switch Control and turning the setting on or off.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>People Detection<o:p></o:p></h3><p>With People Detection, your iPhone scans the area around you, recognizes when other people are close by, and shares this information with vibrations or sounds. “This feature gives members of the blind and low vision community another tool to make the world more accessible,” Herrlinger says. It’s also a helpful reminder for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Turn it on by opening the Magnifier app, tapping the Settings icon, tapping the “+” icon beside People Detection, and then choosing People Detection. From there, you can customize the measurement units, distance increments, and notification type. Don’t miss these other <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/iphone-tricks/">iPhone tricks</a> that can make things so much easier.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Live Listen<o:p></o:p></h3><p>If you use hearing devices, your iPhone’s Live Listen setting can help you hear conversations in loud places. Just connect your hearing devices to your iPhone and place your device close to the people who are speaking to boost the volume of their voices. To turn this feature on, go to Settings > Accessibility, then select Hearing Devices. Tap the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices, then tap Start Live Listen and place the phone in front of the person you want to hear. Turn it off again by going back to the Hearing Devices menu, tapping the name of your hearing device under MFi Hearing Devices, and then tapping End Live Listen.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Dictation<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Dictation is a voice-to-text feature built into all iPhones. By allowing users to write and punctuate text with just their voices, it provides a hands-free (and efficient!) way to send text messages, emails, and other notes. “Many people, regardless of whether they are blind or not, find use for dictation,” Hackert says. To use Dictation, just open the keyboard in the app you want to use and tap the microphone button. Begin speaking to make the text appear on the screen. You can also insert periods or exclamation points by saying the punctuation you want to add. When you are finished with your message, tap the keyboard icon at the bottom of the screen.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Sound Detection<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Turning on the Sound Detection feature will allow your iPhone to listen for certain sounds like a doorbell or siren. If it detects those sounds, it will alert you by flashing and vibrating. To set up Sound Recognition, go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition, then turn on <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/apple-sound-recognition/">Sound Recognition</a>. Tap Sounds and choose the sounds you want your iPhone to recognize.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=image-credit>rd.com, Getty Images</span> <o:p></o:p></p><h2>Android accessibility settings<o:p></o:p></h2><p>Accessibility settings on Android phones have boomed in recent years, according to Angana Ghosh, an Android group project manager. “Google’s mission is to make the world’s information accessible to everyone,” she says. “Over the years, we have launched new features, and we continue to improve those features by listening to user feedback and working directly with communities.” Hackert agrees: “Google lagged significantly behind Apple in the quality and usefulness of its accessibility technology [early on], but in more recent years, Google has really made strong advances, to the point where they are easily on par with Apple,” he says. Here are a few accessibility settings that Android users can try, along with these <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/android-hacks/">Android hacks</a> you need to know.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>What is Android Accessibility Suite?<o:p></o:p></h3><p>The Android Accessibility Suite offers a wide range of accessibility settings to help the visually impaired navigate their devices. “Accessibility is core to the Android user experience, and we’re passionate about making smartphones useful for everyone, including people with disabilities,” Ghosh says. Found on nearly every version of Android, the Accessibility Suite can be activated through the Settings menu, where you can turn on features like a gesture-based screen reader and switch access. Bet you never knew about these <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/hidden-android-features/">hidden Android features</a> either.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>TalkBack<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Like iPhone’s VoiceControl feature, the TalkBack screen reader on Androids will give audible descriptions of the text and images on your screen. You can activate it by going to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack. Toggle the Use TalkBack feature on or off, then tap OK. Bonus: Users with blindness or low vision can also use Android’s TalkBack Braille Keyboard to add 6-dot braille to their keyboards—no extra hardware required. To turn on the keyboard’s braille mode, go to Accessibility > TalkBack > Settings > Braille Keyboard > Layout. This feature was designed by a low-vision Googler in Australia, according to Ghosh.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Action Blocks<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Action Blocks was one of Android’s first accessibility settings. It offers customizable buttons on the Android home screen for routine actions like placing calls or controlling the lights, and it was “designed to make it easier for caregivers and people with cognitive disabilities and age-related cognitive conditions to fully access and perform tasks on their phone,” according to Ghosh. Create your own Action Blocks by downloading the Action Blocks app from the Google Play Store, then opening the app and tapping on Create Action Block. From there, you can choose one of the common actions from the list, such as Make Phone Call, and label it with an image, name, or both. Once you’re done, select Save Action Block.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Display and Font Size<o:p></o:p></h3><p>If a visual impairment makes it hard to see your device’s screen, you can adjust the size and display to see items on your screen more clearly. To change the font size of text on your screen, go to Settings > Accessibility > Font Size and move the slider up or down. Make the images on your screen bigger by going to Settings > Accessibility > Display Size and adjusting the slider. Under Settings > Accessibility, you can also choose to turn on High Contrast Text, Dark Theme, Color Inversion, or Color Correction to make everything on the screen more visible.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Magnification<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Still struggling to make out items on your Android phone’s screen? You can temporarily zoom or magnify your screen using Android’s Magnification tool. To turn on this feature, open the Settings app and tap Accessibility > Magnification > Magnification Shortcut. Now, when you need to magnify your screen, just tap the Accessibility button and tap anywhere on the screen. Drag two fingers to move around the screen, or pinch with two fingers to adjust the zoom. When you’re done, tap the Accessibility button again.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Lookout<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Using an Android device’s camera and sensors, Lookout can help people with blindness or low vision learn more about their surroundings. The feature relies on computer vision to recognize an object or text, then describes it to the user. Just install the Lookout app on Google Play, then open it by saying, “OK, Google, start Lookout,” or by selecting Lookout in the Apps section. After giving the app permission to access your camera, hold your device with your camera facing outward. Your device will now be able to read text, documents, and food labels, describe your surroundings, and even recognize currency.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Voice Access<o:p></o:p></h3><p>With Voice Access, users can provide spoken commands to do everything from opening apps to typing messages to placing a call. “This feature can be particularly helpful to people with dexterity impairments, which may make it difficult to touch a phone screen,” Ghosh says. After installing the app from Google’s app store, you can turn on this setting by going to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Access and tapping Use Voice Access. From there, start Voice Access by opening the Voice Access app or saying, “Hey, Google, Voice Access.” In case you were wondering, here’s <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/can-alexa-call-911/">how Alexa can help in emergencies</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Time to Take Action<o:p></o:p></h3><p>If you have ADHD, “chemobrain,” or other cognitive disabilities, the Time to Take Action feature on Androids can be a helpful reminder tool. This setting keeps temporary alerts like calendar notifications, text messages, and more on your screen for a longer duration. After receiving intense chemotherapy eight years ago, Shew still struggles with memory loss and relies on her phone to remember the things that she can’t. “I have my alarms ring to remind me of a lot of things, like picking kids up from school,” she says. “Some people [with cognitive disabilities] use phone reminders and notifications from calendars, too.” You can adjust how long these temporary alerts and notifications stay on your screen by going to Settings > Accessibility > Time to Take Action (Accessibility Timeout) and choosing your preferred timeout length.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Voice Input<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Voice Input is a voice-to-text feature on Android that allows users with physical or visual impairments to type text messages, emails, and other notes by saying the words out loud. Just launch any app that uses text, like Email or Messages, and tap in the text field to make the on-screen keyboard appear. Then tap the microphone icon and begin saying your message. When you’re finished, tap the microphone icon again, and then hit Send or Save. These <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/phone-keyboard-shortcuts/">smartphone keyboard shortcuts</a> will make texting faster, too.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Sound Amplifier<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Launched in 2019, the Sound Amplifier app connects with your headphones or hearing aids to boost and filter the sounds nearby or on your Android phone. “[The app] aims to help the deaf and hard of hearing community by providing an additional option for absorbing sound in the world around you, whether that’s turning up the sound of the television or setting your phone closer to a professor in class so you can hear the lecture with more clarity,” Ghosh says. Using Sound Amplifier is simple: Just download the app from the Google Play Store, then connect your headphones to your Android device, open the Sound Amplifier app, and follow the on-screen instructions.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Live Transcribe<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Android’s Live Transcribe app provides real-time speech-to-text captions in more than 80 languages, along with more than 30 common sounds like applause or laughter, for <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/deaf-culture/">people who are deaf</a> or hard of hearing. Android also offers a Live Caption feature that automatically captions the videos, podcasts, phone and video calls, and audio messages played on your device. To use Live Transcribe, download the app on Google Play, then open the app and hold your device near the person or sound to begin transcribing. Live Caption can be found under Settings > Sound > Live Caption. Toggle the switch to the “on” position to enable the feature. You can also adjust the settings to hide profanity and sound labels.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Sound Notifications<o:p></o:p></h3><p>With a single tap, your phone could save a life. Android phones now offer Sound Notifications, a relatively new feature that alerts users when it hears sounds like fire alarms, doorbells, crying babies, and more. “This technology builds off of our sound detection work in Live Transcribe to provide a better picture of overall sound awareness,” Ghosh says. To activate Sound Notifications, download the Live Transcribe & Sound Notifications app, then go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Notifications > Open Sound Notifications and tap OK.<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Switch Access<o:p></o:p></h3><p>Switch Access on Android devices works similarly to the same tool on iPhones. If users have limited mobility or sensory issues, Switch Access allows them to navigate their phones with a designated “switch” like a keyboard key or mouse button instead of tapping. The phone will continuously scan the items on the screen, highlighting each item until the user selects one using the switch. After connecting an external switch device or keyboard to your Android device via USB or Bluetooth, you can enable this tool by going to Settings > Language & Input > Select Keyboard. Then tap Show Virtual Keyboard (Android 7.0 or later) or Hardware (Android 6.0 or earlier).<o:p></o:p></p><h3>Morse Code Keyboard<o:p></o:p></h3><p>In 2018, Google partnered with developer Tania Finlayson, an expert in Morse code assistive technology, to add Morse code to Gboard keyboards on Android phones. Finlayson was born with cerebral palsy and uses Morse code to communicate in her daily life. “Developing communication tools like this is important, because for many people, it simply makes life livable,” she said in a press release. Android users can set up the Morse code keyboard on their phones by installing Gboard, then going to Settings > System > Languages & Input > Virtual Keyboard > Keyboard. Tap Languages > English, and then swipe right through the options until reaching Morse code. Select Morse code, then tap Done. Next, check out the <a href="https://www.rd.com/list/best-cell-phone-accessories/">cell phone accessories</a> you’ll end up using every day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><h2> New and improved Windows 11 features in May 2023<o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Photos app</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft published a Photos app update in May 2023. The update added a new Slideshow feature, which allows users to sit back and relax while different photos are displayed on the screen.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Another new feature adds a timeline to the scrollbar which may help going through a large folder of photos. The Spot Fix tool, finally, allows users to remove unwanted portions on an image.<o:p></o:p></p><p>You can check out Ashwin's <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/04/photos-app-for-windows-11-insiders-adds-slideshow-timeline-scrollbar-and-spot-fix/">review of the new Photos app</a> or head over to Microsoft's blog post <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/05/03/photos-app-for-windows-11-update-brings-improvements-for-windows-insiders/" target="_blank">instead</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Start Menu notification ads</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft has accelerated the rollout of what it calls <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/29/windows-11-microsoft-rolls-out-start-menu-promotions/">notification badges for Microsoft accounts</a> on the Start Menu. These promote the company's OneDrive service for now, but may display different types of information in the future.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft notes that this can be adjusted via Settings > Personalization > Start..<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Start Menu website recommendations re-introduced</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft removed linking to websites in the recommended section of the Start Menu after a public outcry. The company has now re-introduced the feature in development builds and promised, that it has adjusted the feature.<o:p></o:p></p><p>One of the main changes is that Microsoft is now pulling recommendations from a user's browsing history instead of a general pool of popular sites.<o:p></o:p></p><p>It is unclear if links will be displayed if users do not use Microsoft Edge, or Google Chrome, if continuous import has been enabled. Microsoft notes that this can be adjusted via Settings > Personalization > Start.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The question why anyone would want to see website recommendations based on the personal browsing history in Start remains unanswered for now.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft is also trying out a new ranking for Recommended items that "considers when the file was last used, the file extension, and more".<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dev Drive</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p>Dev Drive is a new storage volume designed specifically for development related tasks. It uses the Resilient File System (ReFS) and includes " file system optimizations and features that enable developers to better manage their performance and security profile" according to Microsoft.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Dev Drives can be set up under System > Storage > Advanced Storage Settings > Disks & Volumes. Requirements include a size of at least 50 gigabytes and systems with 8 gigabytes of RAM or higher.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Microsoft Defender Antivirus' performance mode was designed specifically for Dev Drive to "minimize impact on developer workloads".<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Smaller noteworthy Windows changes</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/05/windows-11-facebook-widget/">Third-party widget for Facebook</a> is now available for testing. It displays notifications from the social networking site in the widget's interface. Widgets are also getting a new widget picker experience, that displays an image as a visual preview.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Microsoft is rolling out animated icons for Widgets on the taskbar.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>The new volume mixer experience, which displays volume mixers for each individual app, is now available for testing in the Canary channel.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>File Explorer's Details pane, which Windows 11 users may activate with the shortcut Alt-Shift-P or via menus, has been "modernized". It displays additional information, including recent activity, related files and related conversations.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Microsoft is testing two different Windows Spotlight implementations, and has added support for 4K portrait images and "the ability to learn more about each desktop image".<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>The Narrator tool "provides a more succinct and efficient reading experience while working in Microsoft Excel". Microsoft has detailed the changes <a href="https://sway.office.com/A24LjOo2uV8kUo3a?ref=Link&loc=play" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Live Captions support has been added for Danish, English (Ireland), French (Canada), Korean and Portuguese (Portugal).<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 111 was updated. New features include package verification for apps on WSA, a preference to set assigned memory to Android, and Linux kernel was updated to 5.15.94.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Support for vTPM in Hyper-V on Windows on Arm (Arm64) builds.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Support for Microsoft Endpoint DLP on Windows on Arm (Arm64) builds<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Support for bridging adapters using <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/netsh/netsh" target="_blank">netsh</a> was added.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Passpoint Wi-Fi networks will now support enhanced connection performance.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Bluetooth Personal Area networks can now be joined under Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Devices.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>WPA3 support to Phone Link's instant hotspot feature was added.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>The Advanced network settings page of the Settings app now links to the adapter options directly.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>New way to <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/30/windows-11-view-saved-wi-fi-passwords/">view saved Wi-fi passwords</a> under Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi and “Manage known networks”.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Backup and restore now supports syncing and restoring installed Microsoft Store applications. Check out Ashwin's review of the <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/25/heres-a-look-at-microsofts-new-windows-backup-app/">updated Windows 11 backup tool</a>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Text authoring experience in voice access. <o:p></o:p></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>You can say “correct [text]” or “correct that” to correct a specific piece of text or last dictated text. The correction window appears with a list of options labelled with numbers.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>You can say “click [number]” to select any option from the list. If you choose an alternate word from the window , the selected text will be replaced by the word. You can also say “spell that” to dictate the correct spelling of the text.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>Users can directly use the “spell that” or “spell out” command to dictate the right spelling of non-standard words such as usernames, topics, etc.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Narrator natural voices in Chinese.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>New option to turn off toast notifications for certain apps.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><h1>Sorting through all the AI lingo? Here’s a glossary to help<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal>Hey, did you hear about LIMA? It’s built on the LLM LLaMA, not to be confused with LaMDA.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The language of AI is riddled with acronyms, platform names, tech slang and theories. If you’ve ever overheard a conversation about AI and thought, “What the heck is Stable Diffusion, and how is it different from ChatGPT?” but were too afraid to ask, we’ve put together an AI glossary to help navigate some of the lingo and identify the tech companies behind which tech.<o:p></o:p></p><p>AI has been moving so quickly in 2023 that this list could be obsolete before long. There will most definitely be new terms emerging over the summer, and who knows where AI will be by the fall? But for now, we hope this helps:<o:p></o:p></p><h2>AI Glossary<o:p></o:p></h2><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Act as if</span></strong>: A prompt starter for AI chatbots that has it respond as if it is something specific (e.g: job interviewer, therapist, fictional character)<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Algorithm</span></strong>: Instructions that a computer program follows to operate on its own<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Artificial general AI (AGI)</span></strong>: An artificial intelligence system that can learn and adapt, as opposed to its capabilities being limited to what is programmed<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Alignment</span></strong>: A field of research that aims to make sure AI aligns with human value codes; for example, AI models may be trained to refuse to tell a user how to build a bomb or steal data<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Ameca</span></strong>: A humanoid robot designed by UK-based Engineering Arts as a platform for developing interactive AI<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Artstation</span></strong>: The largest online digital artist community on the internet; “Trending on Artstation” is a common prompt for creating AI art<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Autonomous</span></strong>: A robot, vehicle or device that operates without human control<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Bard</span></strong>: Google’s AI chatbot, powered by PaLM 2. Bard is not an acronym; the chatbot is named after William Shakespeare, the “Bard of Avalon”<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)</span></strong>: A Google machine learning framework for natural language processing used since 2018 for tasks such as predicting text in search<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Bias</span></strong>: When an AI algorithm produces systemically prejudiced results due to biases in the training data.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>BingGPT</span></strong>: Bing’s ChatGPT-based chatbot<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Black Box AI</span></strong>: A machine learning concept where developers do not control or understand how the AI model processes information. The opposite of “Explainable AI”<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Blinding</span></strong>: A method where certain information is intentionally withheld from an AI to make it more challenging to exploit<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Boxing</span></strong>: A method where an AI is isolated, for example, by not connecting it to the internet, to prevent it from potentially causing harm outside of its developers’ control<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>ChatGPT</span></strong>: An open-source deep learning chatbot by OpenAI, first released to the public in <a href="https://technical.ly/software-development/chatgpt-openai-ethics-artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank">November 2022</a>. The current version is ChatGPT4<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Chatbot</span></strong>: A computer program that uses AI and natural language processing to respond to human questions in real time<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Clone</span></strong>: An AI clone uses voice and video data of a person to create an interactive digital version of that person<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Convolutional neural network</span></strong>: An artificial neural network that can be trained to recognize objects or patterns, but is not predictive<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Confabulate</span></strong>: When an AI model randomly answers with false information presented as fact, often a result of insufficient data or bias. Interchangeable with “hallucinate.”<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Confinement</span></strong>: Also known as AI capability control, AI confinement is a field related to alignment that aims to keep human control over AI systems.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Corpus</span></strong>: A large set of texts used to train an AI that uses natural language processing; these could be anything from social media posts to news articles to movies<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dall-E</span></strong>: OpenAI’s deep learning model for creating images<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Data Dignity</span></strong>: A movement that advocates for the AI economy giving people control over their data and compensating them when data about or created by them is used<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Data poisoning</span></strong>: A type of cyber attack where inaccurate or otherwise bad data is incorporated into an AI model’s training data set, causing it to give inaccurate or harmful results<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Data mining</span></strong>: The process of analyzing datasets to discover new patterns that might improve the model<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)</span></strong>: The military research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense, a major AI and <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">XAI</a> researcher<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Deep learning</span></strong>: An AI function of neural networks where a model learns how to respond based on data it’s given rather than simply performing what is programmed<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Deepfake</span></strong>: Using AI to create video, images or voices that appear to be real but are not<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Diffusion model</span></strong>: A generative AI model that can create high-resolution images by creating new data samples on top of the one they were trained on, leading to higher-quality images<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dream Studio</span></strong>: The web app of Stable Diffusion, a major deep learning text-to-image AI engine.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Explainable AI (XAI)</span></strong>: A type of machine learning that designers can explain or interpret. The opposite of “Black Box AI”<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Gemini</span></strong>: A Google language model powered by PaLM 2; unlike Bard, it has multimodal capability (text, image, sound and video)<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Generative AI</span></strong>: AI that creates output, including text, images, music and video<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Golden prompts</span></strong>: Prompts that have been engineered to give the user desirable results and can be used as a template for other prompts<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)</span></strong>: OpenAI’s large language model on which the ChatGPT chatbot is built<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hallucinate</span></strong>: When an AI model randomly answers with false information presented as fact, often a result of insufficient data or bias. Interchangeable with “confabulate”<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Humanoid AI</span></strong>: A physical robot designed to look like a human with AI neural networks allowing it to interact with humans. Sophia and Ameca are examples of humanoids in development.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hypothetical intelligence agent</span></strong>: Potential artificial general AI that rewrites its own code to become independent of human programming<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Imagen</span></strong>: A text-to-image diffusion AI Image creator that outputs photo-realistic images<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA)</span></strong>: A Google language model designed to engage in conversations that naturally evolve from one subject to another<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>LAION</span></strong>: A German non-profit that makes open-source deep learning models, including the models Stable Diffusion and Imagen are built on; has met <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/lensa-ai-artist-controversy-ethics-privacy-rcna60242" target="_blank">controversy</a> for scraping images from art sites like ArtStation and Deviant Art.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Large Language Model Meta A (LLaMA)</span></strong>: Meta’s large language model, released in February 2023<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Large Language Model (LLM)</span></strong>: A deep-learning transformer model that is trained to understand natural language and respond in a human-like way<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Lensa</span></strong>: A Stable Diffusion-based photo and video filter program by Prisma Labs that uses AI to transform images/selfies; many AI filters are built into TikTok, where they are popular and free<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Less is More for Alignment (LIMA)</span></strong>: Meta’s newest language model, considered competitive with Bard and ChatGPT, built on its LLaMA LLM.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)</span></strong>: First developed in 1997, a variety of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that are capable of learning long-term dependencies, especially in sequence prediction problems<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Low-rank adaptation (LoRA)</span></strong>: A Microsoft training method that freezes part of an LLM to make fine-tuning it more efficient and cost-effective<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Machine learning</span></strong>: The process or field of developing artificial intelligence by feeding a computer data and using the results to improve and evolve the technology.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Massively Multilingual Speech (MMA)</span></strong>: A text-to-speech/speech-to-text AI model that can process over 1,100 languages<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Meta Megabyte</span></strong>: AI architecture by Meta AI that can process large volumes of data without breaking down the input into smaller units (tokenization)<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Midjourney</span></strong>: A generative AI text-to-image platform by San Francisco research lab Midjourney, Inc. Users create AI images through its Discord.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Moat</span></strong>: Not exclusively an AI term, a moat is a competitive advantage an AI company has over its competitors when its proprietary technology creates a barrier for other companies from entering the market<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Multimodal</span></strong>: An AI model that combines multiple types of data, including video, text, audio and images<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Narrow AI</span></strong>: AI that is designed to perform a single or narrow range of tasks, such as search engines, virtual assistants and facial recognition software<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Natural Language Processing (NLP)</span></strong>: A type of linguistic computer science that programs computers to analyze and process natural language data, so, for example, Alexa can “listen” and respond to a human voice<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Neural Network</span></strong>: A method in AI where computers are trained to process data like a human brain rather than a programmed machine. Deep learning models are made up of neural networks<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Oracle</span></strong>: A hypothetical controlled AI platform that can only answer simple questions and can not grow its knowledge beyond its immediate environment<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Output</span></strong>: What the AI creates when prompted; it could be text, image, music or video<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>PaLM 2</span></strong>: Google’s AI model, used for Bard, Gemini and other Google AI uses<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Playground AI</span></strong>: A free (up to 1,000 images a day) AI art generator using Stable Diffusion<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Prompt crafting</span></strong>: Creating text prompts to interact with AI in a way that produces the desired results; interchangeable with “prompt engineering,” sometimes preferred by people who use AI for creative uses<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Prompt engineering</span></strong>: Creating text prompts to interact with AI in a way that produces the desired results; interchangeable with “prompt crafting,” sometimes preferred by people who use AI for technical uses<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Prompt framework</span></strong>: An outline of a prompt that includes all of the steps and information to create a specific output<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Reactive AI</span></strong>: AI that provides output based on the input it receives, but does not learn or evolve. Examples include spam filters and recommendations based on your activity<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Recurrent neural network (RNN)</span></strong>: An artificial neural network that recognizes recurring patterns and uses the data to predict what comes next, often used in speech recognition and natural language processing<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Seed AI</span></strong>: A type of hypothetical intelligence agent that eventually does not need human intervention to learn new things<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Self-awareness</span></strong>: A level of AI, currently only existing in science fiction, in which AI has a level of consciousness similar to human beings, with emotions and needs<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sophia</span></strong>: An advanced, socially intelligent humanoid robot created by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics 2016<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Stable Diffusion</span></strong>: An open-source, deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022 by Stability AI. In April 2023, a new version called SDXL was released in beta; its official web app is DreamStudio<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Theory of mind (ToM)</span></strong>: In AI, ToM, or “emotional intelligence,” is when a machine can recognize human emotions and adjust its behavior in response. Early ToM models include humanoid robots Ameca and Sophia<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Tokenization</span></strong>: Splitting large volume input or output into smaller units in order to make them manageable by large language models<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Transformer</span></strong>: A neural network invented and open source by Google Research in 2017. 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