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This update is said to include new features currently present in Inbox, such as smart replies and the ability to snooze emails. The update will also bring Gmail up to date with Google’s rapidly changing design languages, and will incorporate aspects of material design as well as Google’s new bubble design.   After we posted that report, a trusted source offered to let us see the Google redesign early. The new design we received supports the claims of features like smart replies and email snoozing, and enables a sidebar of plugins that give you easy access to different Google apps like Calendar and Keep.   What’s more interesting, is that Google looks to be completely refreshing Tasks for the masses. This is essentially a To-Do list which can be built directly into your Gmail window to help keep you on track with your goals for the day. Tasks was previously built into Gmail already, but the UI hadn’t been updated since the dark ages, so this to...

Apple has finally released the iTunes app on the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store app store. Microsoft, at its Build conference held last year, had announced plans to add iTunes to the Microsoft Store. While some Windows users were highly anticipating the debut of iTunes, Apple in December 2017 said that iTunes will not be available in the Microsoft Store that year. The iTunes app on the Microsoft Store is similar to the regular iTunes, but now installation updates will be handled through the Microsoft Store updater rather than through Apple. Notably, the app will only run on Windows 10 PCs with either x86 or x64 architectures. The arrival of iTunes also ensures the software's compatibility with Windows 10 S mode, a more secure version meant for schools and other establishments that runs apps downloaded only from the Windows Store. With the advent of the new education-focused Windows 10 S, developers are being encouraged to flock to the Windows Store to make...

The next major update for Windows 10 is supposed to hit sometime this month, though one of the questions that has yet to be answered is what exactly will it be called? We know have an answer. While still not officially announced, it appears that Microsoft has officially moved on from calling it the Spring Creators Update and will instead simply refer to the next major release as the Windows 10 April Update. That is based on a new RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build that Microsoft recently pushed out to all rings of the Windows Insider program. Otherwise known as Redstone 4, Microsoft Edge gains a server-side update in the new build, and when fired up, it loads a 'welcome' page hosted on MSN that says, "Welcome to the April update," which you can see in the image below: The welcome page promotes a few new features of the April Update, such as being able to resume past activities in timeline and the ability to share files with nearby devices. B...

  The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning has greatly changed several large organizations of today. While some organizations have embraced AI, machine learning for their growth, some of them need to upskill their workforce to survive. Adapting to the rapidly-changing workforce has been the most defining task in today’s world. Organizations need to invest in their workers to ensure that they are not left behind. IT workers with right skills have a greater advantage to choose how, where and when they can work. Here are the top 4 HR trends that will see gaining prominence in 2018. 1. HR becomes a strategic business partner Emerging technologies have increased the workload of HR teams. The recruiters in top organizations need to work more closely with top management to become a strategic business partner. A large number of human resource professionals have already begun implementation of this strategy. HRs are ought to focus on understandin...

Google just gave us a very long overdue gift: the ability to browse in silence. That's because Google Chrome will finally mute annoying autoplaying videos by default. The update, part of Google Chrome 66 , launched today for the browser's desktop and mobile apps. With the update, you'll no longer have to manually mute sites that autoplay videos with sound. Instead, Chrome will block the videos from playing altogether (note that videos set to autoplay without sound will still play). The only exception will be sites where you've "previously shown an interest in media on the site." So expect sites like YouTube, where you've likely engaged with a lot of video in the past, to still play as they normally would. (Gizmodo also has a good breakdown on how Google determines what sites you're "interested" in.) This also applies to mobile browsing (unless you have a website saved to your home screen), which is nice because it can be...

  Some Google Chromecast users have reported that they are facing random crashes on their Wi-Fi networks. Router vendors have recognised the crashing issue and have started pushing patches from their end to retain a stable experience. The problem is claimed to exist in Google's 'Cast' feature and is reportedly affecting Google Home devices in addition to Chromecast. As explained by the TP-Link engineers in an FAQ listing, the issue exists due to multicast DNS (MDNS) packets that are broadcast through Google Chromecast and Home in a large amount, at a very high speed in a short amount of time. MDNS packets are normally sent in a 20-second interval. "This occurs when the device is awakened from the "sleep mode" and could exceed more than 100,000 packets in a short amount of time. The longer your device is in 'sleep', the larger this packet burst will be. This issue may eventually cause some of the router's primary features to s...

Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for speech synthesis directly from text you see on the screen. “The system is composed of a recurrent sequence-to-sequence feature prediction network that maps character embeddings to mel-scale spectrograms, followed by a modified WaveNet model acting as a vocoder to synthesise time-domain waveforms from those spectrograms,” Google explains in a study titled ‘Natural TTS Synthesis by Conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram Predictions’. “Our model achieves a mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.53 comparable to a MOS of 4.58 for professionally recorded speech. To validate our design choices, we present ablation studies of key components of our system and evaluate the impact of using mel spectrograms as the input to WaveNet instead of linguistic, duration, and F0 features. We further ...