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, has put out a call on website Reddit for people with Scottish accents to submit recordings of themselves reading certain phrases to help train its software. Users with certain accents 鈥� particularly Scottish 鈥� have complained that voice recognition systems such as those used in Google Now and Apple鈥檚 Siri struggle to understand them.
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One for the road
when you鈥檝e been drinking 鈥� but putting one on before you start could save your life. A team at the University of California, San Diego, has designed a smart tattoo that detects alcohol levels in your sweat and sends a reading to your phone. The team hopes to cut down on drink-driving and says the patch鈥檚 sensor could also be linked to a car鈥檚 ignition system.