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If staring at your phone in a moving vehicle is a puke-worthy or vertigo-inducing experience, Apple‘s new Vehicle Motion Cues might be a solution. Announced along with a series of other new accessibility features, Vehicle Motion Cues turn built-in motion sensors in iPhone and iPads into anti-sickness aids. SEE ALSO: Apple adds new accessibility features...

Apple‘s accessibility offerings continue to expand, as new features like device eye tracking, touch enhanced music listening, and settings for those with atypical speech come to on-the-go devices. Announced in the midst of a month-long recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 16), the lineup of customizability options to help users with physical disabilities better...

Android users will soon have access to a revolutionarily accessible form of device control: Completely hands-free navigation, using the power of Google AI and facial tracking. Part of the company’s long list of updates and announcements rolling out at its developer keynote event today, the new feature is a mobile version of Google’s desktop offering...

TikTok is taking another stab at curbing the rise of AI-generated misinformation taking over social media platforms, as it announces a new way its watermarking (or labelling) AI. The platform announced today that it is joining the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a nonprofit-backed project to align...

Microsoft is more explicitly banning police departments from using its AI models to identify suspects, according to new conduct language for its Azure OpenAI collaboration. The new language explicitly prohibits using its AI model services “for facial recognition purposes by or for a police department in the United States.” It also prohibits use cases in...