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Using a built-in feature called Storage Sense, you can save disk space by setting up Windows 10 to delete files of a certain age in the Recycle Bin automatically every day, week, or month. Here’s how to set it up.
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Google may be storing everything you say to your Google Home and keeping the recordings forever, just as Alexa does. Google recently changed the default behavior not to keep the recordings. But that change only affected new users—not existing ones.
Your Google Home spends most of its time listening for its wake words, “Hey Google” or “OK Google.” The device then records everything you say after the wake word and sends it to Google’s servers for parsing. Google needs to store these recordings temporarily. But Google may be storing what you say forever.
As the Washington Post points out, keeping the recordings forever used to be the default behavior, but it isn’t anymore. Google now makes you opt-in to sending the company your voice recordings. However, Google only made the change for new users and not existing users. If your account previously sent voice recordings to Google, it will keep doing so until you turn it off.
We’ve covered before why companies keep your data like this, but it’s pretty straight forward. Artificial Intelligence isn’t very intelligent, and as far as voice assistants have come, they still miss the mark frequently. As Amazon does for Alexa, Google employs humans to listen to your commands, compare them to what the Assistant thought it heard, and how it responded. Google uses this process to improve its results or learn what features users want implemented that don’t exist yet.
Trying to improve Google assistant is a good thing, but changing the default behavior from opt-out to opt-in is even better. Google is way ahead of Amazon on this front—with Alexa the default is still to record and worse yet, you can’t opt out at all.
If you’re an existing user working under the old defaults, the good news is you can tell Google to stop collecting your voice recordings. The even better news is it’s incredibly easy to do.
To stop this, go to Google’s Activity Controls website. Scroll to “Voice & Audio Activity” and toggle it off. You will see a warning that states Google devices may not understand you when you say “Hey Google,” but we think it’s old warning text. In our testing, commands still work.
Click the “Pause” option at the bottom of the warning.
You’ll need to repeat this process with every Google account you’ve connected to your Google Home. This setting applies to every device you can say “Hey Google” to, from your phone to a Nest Home Hub (formerly known as a Google Home Hub) to a Lenovo smart display.
Now that you’ve turned voice collection off, you can delete what Google already has. Just click on “Manage Activity” beneath the toggle on the Activity Controls website.
Click “Delete activity by” in the upper left corner of the page.
Choose which recordings you want to delete. To delete everything, click the box under “Delete by Date” and select “All Time.”
Finally, click “Delete” to delete the selected recordings.
It’s great that Google enabled a more privacy-sensitive option for new users. We wish Google had made the change retroactive, however. Hopefully, Amazon follows in stride and gives everyone similar controls in the future.
[mai mult...]Whether they’re built-in to your computer or webcam (or not), you likely have multiple microphones on your Mac. If you’re unsure which one is capturing audio, it’s time to review the audio input settings. From there, you can choose which microphone you want to use.
[mai mult...]Everyone has made an embarrassing username in their lifetime that they’ve ended up regretting. Whether you have an awkward username from 5 years ago or simply misspelled something, here’s how you can go back and change it on Twitch.
Previously, if you wanted a new username on Twitch, you’d have to create an entirely new account. Creating a new channel was a problem for multiple reasons—not only would streamers lose an entire list of followers and subscribers on their first channel, but all of their settings and preferences would also be lost.
Now, all you have to do is click through a few simple steps to alter your account name. This can be done once every 60 days.
[mai mult...]The Amazon Music extension for Twitch allows streamers to choose from a wide variety of music to play like a radio station during their live streams. Prime (or Amazon Music Unlimited) subscribers can tune in and interact with the music as you stream.
Only streamers who are Twitch Prime members or Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers may use the Amazon Music extension during their live Twitch streams. Viewers who are not subscribed to these services cannot listen to the music played on stream in this fashion; they will simply hear the base audio of the stream.
In addition to ad-free music, the Amazon Music extension is also DMCA-approved, meaning the music you play will not be flagged as copyrighted material. Of course, the music won’t be saved to your clips or later viewing, but at least you won’t be hit with a copyright claim.
[mai mult...]Twitch streamers who play background music have been hit with DMCA takedown notices for using copyrighted songs. Some of these clips were posted years ago. If you manually disable all clips from being made, you can protect yourself from potential flags in the future.
The company hasn’t yet provided creators with a tool to remove all flagged clips with a single click. That’s why streamers with a large library of saved clips are at risk of being repeatedly flagged, or even banned. Twitch has advised streamers who feel they might be at risk to remove all clips from their channels.
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