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Microsoft talks accessibility improvements coming to Windows and Office 365 in 2017 Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Microsoft has taken to its   accessibility blog   to highlight some of the ways it's planning to improve   Windows 10   and   Office   in 2017 for disabled users.   Overall, Microsoft has some big plans for improving accessibility features of its products in 2017, including braille support, new text to speech voices, and much more. (LANCASTER, 2016) Here's a look at what's in the pipeline for  Windows 10  and Narrator in the Creators Update. As Microsoft notes, some of these improvements are already in Insider builds, but some will be added in the new year: ·          Braille: Support for braille is coming! The Creators Update will include beta support for braille input and output. The beta will support braille displays from more than 35 manufacturers, using more than 40 languages and multiple braille variants, inc

      According to the Microsoft officials provided to the company's OEM partners at WinHEC 2016 in Shenzhen last week, in a session titled  "Cortana and the Speech Platform,"     Mr May Ji described the ways that Microsoft wants its PC and device partners to make use of new "Wake on Voice from Modern Standby" and "Far-field Voice" support that's being added to Windows 10 with the Creators Update that's due out in the Spring of 2017. Wake on Voice from Modern Standby is a feature that allows Cortana to turn on PCs from off to a full-powered state on devices with  Windows 10 "Modern Standby" power-management support . Far-field voice will allow Cortana to work in rooms with ambient noise at up to 13 feet/4 meters away.     The Cortana on Windows 10 IoT Core rollout, which could lag by a few months the rollout of Windows 10 Creators Update for PCs and phones (if history is any indication) will begin with Cortana in English for

Brain Controlled Car                    Hackers Turn Tesla Into a Brain-Controlled Car                                  --   By  Alyssa Danigelis, Seeker.      The Tesla Model S had only gone a few feet, rolling mostly straight from one empty spot in the parking garage to another. The driver wasn't behind the wheel, though. He sat in the passenger's seat, donning an EEG headset that allowed him to control the vehicle with his mind. Meet Telepathic. This feat is the brainchild of California-based technologists Casey Spencer, Lorenzo Caoile, Vivek Vinodh and Abenezer Mamo. Their team used Spencer's 2015 Tesla Model S 85D for the hack, and their project placed third at the  Cal Hacks  event for university students this month. The team only had 36 hours to make telepathic happen for the hackathon. In their setup, an EEG headset translates the brain activity for "stop" or "go" into analog signals broadcast by an off-the-shelf RC radio a