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☆ A Guide to Freeing Your Social Feeds From Annoying Algorithms
  + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Do you ever get the feeling social-media algorithms are a little too eager to please? Hover a beat too long on a workout TikTok, and suddenly you get fitness fever. Save an Instagram Reel about cats, and it’s feline overflow. Like a few tweets about people starting new jobs, and your Twitter timeline becomes a career counseling center.
☆ To Make Phone Calls Clearer, Do This
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Babies babbling, drills drilling, horns honking. Tech companies are rolling out new noise-reduction tools to filter out cacophony on your calls—but you need to know how to find them. As part of its iOS 16.4 update last week, Apple added its Voice Isolation feature to cellular phone calls, bringing the caller’s voice to the forefront and blocking out ambient noise.
☆ How to Block Out Barking Dogs, Crying Babies and Other Background Noise During Calls
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Babies babbling, drills drilling, horns honking. Tech companies are rolling out new noise-reduction tools to filter out cacophony on your calls—but you need to know how to find them. As part of its iOS 16.4 update last week, Apple added its Voice Isolation feature to cellular phone calls, bringing the caller’s voice to the forefront and blocking out ambient noise.
☆ CES 2023: All the Cool, Crazy and Cute Tech We Found in Las Vegas
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Shara Tibken | Cordilia James | Dalvin Brown | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LAS VEGAS—A head-worn smell generator. Cameras mounted on hummingbird feeders. A plane mask that covers your mouth for quiet phone calls at 30,000 feet. The annual tech confab in Las Vegas is back. While CES isn’t at full strength just yet and some economic worries caused companies to highlight more pragmatic product ideas, the event looked a little more like usual this year.
☆ People on TV Are Harder to Hear, but You Can Fix That
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Do you have trouble hearing what people are saying on TV? There are many ways you can improve the audio if you know where to look. More people have turned on closed captions in recent years, reading along as they watch a movie or show. Most say they have trouble hearing dialogue. But even clean audio can be harder to hear now that TVs have become so thin.
☆ People on TV Are Harder to Hear, But You Can Fix That
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Do you have trouble hearing what people are saying on TV? There are many ways you can improve the audio if you know where to look. More people have turned on closed captions in recent years, reading along as they watch a movie or show. Most say they have trouble hearing dialogue. But even clean audio can be harder to hear now that TVs have become so thin.
☆ Some Twitter Power Users Try Business Casual on LinkedIn
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Cordilia James | Ray A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Where Did the Missing Money Go? Sam Bankman-Fried Says He Can Only Guess
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Audio Tech in TVs Has Improved. If you’re having trouble hearing the dialogue on your TV, it may not be you. As audio technology develops and directors make more creative sound choices, it’s getting harder to distinguish what actors are saying. WSJ personal tech reporting assistant Cordilia James joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss what’s going on and how to improve your TV listening experience. Photo Illustration: Chaya Howell/The Wall Street Journal
☆ Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You, Probably
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Some people turn on closed captions because they like how it helps them understand the plotlines of shows and movies, and multitask in front of the tube. Others turn them on because they can’t hear what actors are saying. Muddled audio is the top reason why more people are watching video with on-screen text, according to a May survey commissioned by language-teaching app Preply. As more video-production studios embrace advanced audio formats for at-home content, not every device can keep up. Plenty of viewers can’t keep up, either.
☆ Best Tech Gifts 2022: Our Guide to Gadgets This Holiday Shopping Season
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Nicole Nguyen | Dalvin Brown | Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Creeping prices are this year’s Grinch, so our team focused on essentials in our annual list of favorites. Throughout the year, we tested all sorts of gadgets, and only ones worth the money made it into this guide. This season, the best gear is stuff you and your loved ones will put to good use, such as a Wi-Fi-boosting Alexa speaker, a noise-canceling earbud upgrade and an adjustable light to illuminate webcam appearances. There are plenty of fun products, including a projector that plugs into a lightbulb socket, and a sensible splurge or two. A $1,100 vacuuming and mopping robot, anyone?
☆ Journal Reports: Technology
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Cordilia James | Jackie Snow | Drew Fitzgerald | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Companies are spending billions of dollars to connect customers. Here’s a closer look at their different approaches, and the services they hope to offer.
☆ How Satellite-Based 5G Technology Works
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Drew Fitzgerald | Kevin Hand | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Journal Reports: TechnologyWhat Will Satellite-Connected Phones Do for Us? Not Much, for Now. By Cordilia JamesNew tech in smartphones promises users an “always connected” experience. But there are limits.
☆ Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On?
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Cordilia James | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Closed captions are cool now. Just ask anyone under 40. More viewers, especially younger ones, are using tools that transcribe dialogue in the content they’re watching online, from Netflix movies to TikTok videos. This isn’t just about watching “Squid Game” drama in Korean with English subtitles.
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