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Happy International Women’s Day!

You make our world better and boost the innovations in all the fields. Keep going, girls!

We’ve collected some of the inspiring stories of women’s contribution to science and technology: https://www.voxqube.com/post/women-in-tech

Are you in a festive mood? Because Google is!

The company improved AI for smart home control: the assistant has learned to understand queries using context.

If you ask to turn on the light in the room, then you do not need to specify in which one. AI itself will determine that the user is now in the living room, and the light bulbs will light up there.

The voice assistant has become better at recognizing the device name, the user does not need to pronounce it in full. Instead of the command "turn on the vacuum cleaner", it is enough to ask "vacuum the kitchen, living room and dining room."

The assistant can also work in conjunction with other smart devices. You can set the hallway lights to automatically turn on if someone passes under the motion sensor at the front door.

The company claims that the updated AI will change the smart home control experience. The assistant recognizes broad queries better and does not require special wording of commands. However, the new method may differ from the usual. It is possible that some commands that the voice assistant understood before will stop working.

Github is testing a voice assistant for developers: it will help you write code without a keyboard.

The Copilot AI service is based on the OpenAI GPT-3 language model. Now it understands human language (but does not yet respond with a voice).

The wake-up phrases for the assistant are "Hi, Github" or "Hey, Github". Copilot proposes code, navigates through it, and finds errors. In testing, voice control is only supported in the Visual Studio Code Editor.

Github opened access to Copilot in June 2022 and positions it as a "programmer's partner". The company's survey found that Copilot users write code faster, and the service makes coding more accessible to those who can't type.