Source: Google AI can now answer your questions about uncaptioned images
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Google’s accessibility features include AI-based “image Q&A” in its Lookout app and wheelchair-accessible labels in Google Maps. Live Caption for calls, an improved spell checker and faster text-to-speech on Wear 4 are also included.
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Source: The Xbox web store now includes accessibility filters
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Microsoft has marked Global Accessibility Awareness Day by introducing some measures to make its Xbox ecosystem more inclusive. The Xbox web store now offers 20 options, including gameplay settings, audio, visual, and input features, to filter games by console, PC and cloud, and supported languages. Besides, Microsoft has expanded its accessibility support pages by adding more than 150 features, settings and controls for PC and consoles.
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💻 The Xbox web store now offers 20 accessibility filters for console, PC and cloud games.
🕹️ Microsoft has expanded its Xbox accessibility support pages to cover 150 accessibility features, settings and controls for PC and consoles.
🛑 The Microsoft Xbox web store now allows the option to pause a game as one of its gaming features.
🔊 Microsoft Xbox web store now has audio and visual filters to aid game selection.
🌎 The web store filters are available on Xbox console games to ensure that all those games can be enjoyed on all platforms with accessibility.
🔤 The web store includes the number of supported languages.
🌟 Recently, the Xbox Accessories app support thumbstick settings adjustments.
Source: Twitter Blue subscribers can now upload videos as long as two hours
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Twitter Blue premium subscribers can now upload video files up to 2 hours and 8GB in size, twice the previous limit, in an effort to attract podcast creators and indie filmmakers.
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Source: Supreme Court rules in Twitter and YouTube’s favor in terrorism liability cases
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The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Twitter and Google by granting them protection from lawsuits filed by victims of terrorist attacks and their relatives. The court agreed that Twitter did not aid terrorist group ISIS concerning its action, while Google and YouTube were accused of violating anti-terrorism laws. The court left intact a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit by the family of a victim of a 2015 Paris terror attack, claiming Section 230 protections did not apply to Google’s algorithms as they surfaced ISIS videos as recommendations.
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