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The secret to powering web apps with full speech recognition What’s the secret to powering web apps with speech recognition? The secret is Chrome (or Chromium)Web Speech API. This API, which works with Chromium-based browsers, is fantastic and does all the heavy work for us, leaving us to only care about building better interfaces using voice. However incredible this API is, as of Nov 2020, it is not widely supported, and that can be an issue depending on your requirements....

Brands’ approach to Twitter is in many ways more of an unknown than Facebook. With the way that Facebook Pages have developed, there is a very clear structure to how you run your business presence on Facebook. There is a place for your photos, video, wall updates, then tabs on the side to do pretty much whatever you want with and a clear distinction between friends and Likes. With Twitter, it’s not so straightforward....

What makes Usian Bolt the fastest sprinter on Earth? You might think that it’s his ability to move his legs more quickly than his rivals, but it seems that there’s a lot more to it. AsThe Post Gamereports, the science of human speed relies on a number of other factors which mean that even if Bolt moved his legs at exactly the same pace as the person next to him, he’d still have a better chance of winning....

The woman millions of people would get to know as Lady Gaga was still mostly unheard-of when Tynicka Battle and Amina Elshahawi received a request for a proposal from the future pop star’s record label. The two are cofounders of a company calledThinkTank Digital, and by the time they were approached in 2008 on behalf of Gaga they were already running the social media and online marketing strategies for several major music and entertainment labels....

If there’s one complaint I hear about the daily use of the iPhone more than any other, it’s the length of time that the battery lasts. With the iPhone 4 those complaints subsided a bit but many people still remark to me that they have to charge it during the day or risk running low on power. There are a lot of ways to help conserve battery life on iPhones and iPads but if there is one single tip that I can give to anyone complaining about battery life it’s this:Turn your brightness down to 49%....