Google has released a sound recording application for its newly released Pixel 4 smartphone. Simply called Recorder, the app recognizes speech and uses artificial intelligence to produce a written transcription of the recording. Users can search for words and phrases as well as other sounds such as music and applause …

  Are you delivering the email and mobile experiences your customers expect? Are you measuring your performance the right way? Do you know how to compare your company’s campaign performance to competitors — or take learnings from industries and apply them to your own? If the answer is “no” then …

Smart Shopping campaigns are Google’s machine learning-driven campaigns for product ads. They automatically optimize ad delivery across Google’s properties. As a newer campaign type, there have been settings and reporting limitations that have kept many advertisers on the sidelines. Until very recently, advertisers could not control location targeting. What changed. …

  With its rich blacks and high level of contrast between colors, OLED displays are slowly taking over. They haven’t made much progress in the gaming monitor market as of yet, but Alienware aims to change that with the ultra-luxe 55 OLED Gaming Monitor ($3,999.99), a beautiful display with a …

  NASA is talking a lot about long-term missions like new trips to the moon and the possibility of human voyages to Mars, but its latest mission is a bit closer to home. The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is finally in orbit after years of delays. This probe orbits …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. The app industry in 2018 saw 194 billion downloads and more than $100 billion in purchases. Just in the past quarter, consumer …

  Reddit users can now share their favorite content from the site to Snapchat, thanks to a new integration that allows sharing of text, link, and image-based posts on iOS from Reddit’s “Safe for Work” communities. The move makes Snapchat the first platform partner that Reddit is testing content sharing …

A research team led by University of Hawai’i at Manoa marine biologists has captured whale’s-point-of-view and aerial drone video of humpback whale bubble-net feeding in the waters off of Southeast Alaska.   About 3,000 humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) visit Alaska during the summer feeding period, and up to 10,000 visit …

Before the Yankees played Game 2 of the ALCS against the Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, former 20-year veteran outfielder Carlos Beltran expressed his desire to become a manager when he caught up with SNY’s Andy Martino on the field. Beltran, who spent 2005-10 as a Met and …

SoftBank Group, the multi-billion dollar Japanese technology conglomerate and investment firm, has put together a  bid that would save WeWork parent company We Co., just weeks before the co-working real estate company’s imminent collapse, The Wall Street Journal reports. With the collapse of the company’s planned initial public offering, We …