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Technics' Turntables, Star Wars Droids and Google Docs Speech Recognition

  • by: Maarten Schenk
  • (Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:49:02 Z)

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  • Engadget reports Panasonic is bringing back the legendary Technics' turntable. And there was much rejoicing among DJ-types.

  • The Verge has a video of a rolling droid you can now own, based on the spherical droid seen in the trailer for the new Star Wars movie.

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Image: Gizmodo

  • Gizmodo has a review of the new voice typing feature in Google Docs that was launched recently.

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About the author:

Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.  He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral.

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