Technology

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely expected to limit the amount of data companies can use for data mining, but new research suggests that it will actually be a boon for the FinTech industry.

One result of the GDPR is that businesses will have access to honestly sourced data from consumers using a transparent opt-in model, which will be a rich source of information for discovering user patterns in large datasets, according to the report from Juniper Research.

Apple has released a handful of new ads promoting the iPadportability and convenience over both laptops and traditional paper solutions. The 15-second ads focus on how the iPad can make even the most tedious things — travel, notes, paperwork, and ‘stuff& — just a bit easier.

Three out of the four spots show the sixth-generation iPad, which was revealed at Appleeducation event in March, and which offers a lower-cost ($329 in the U.S.) option with Pencil support.

The ads were released on Appleinternational YouTube channels (UAE, Singapore, and United Kingdom).

This follows another 90-second ad released yesterday, focusing on FaceID. The commercial shows a man in a gameshow-type setting asked to remember the banking password he created earlier that morning. He struggles for an excruciating amount of time before realizing he can access the banking app via FaceID.

There has been some speculation that FaceID may be incorporated into some upcoming models of the iPad, though we&ll have to wait until Applenext event (likely in September) to find out for sure.

After promising up the feature for the better part of a year, DishHopper line just got Google Assistant functionality. The feature brings hands-free control to the receivers, allowing for the standard array of functionality like play, pause, fast forward and rewind, along with content search.

Here are a handful of examples from Google,

• &Turn on my Hopper&
• &Tune to channel 140&
• &Show me home improvement shows&
• &Open Game Finder on Hopper&
• &Rewind 30 seconds& &Pause& and &Resume&
• &Record Game of Thrones on Hopper&

You get the idea.

Dish announced the featureback at CES — I&m not sure eight months qualifies as &soon& in terms of software updates, but there you go. The feature works with Hoppers that are paired with Assistant-enabled devices like Google Home smart speakers and Android handsets. Apparently the company rolled the feature out to about one-percent of users last week as a kind of large-scale test.

Dish has supported Alexa for some time, on the other hand. Last May, the company brought the hands-free skill to Hopper,and added support for its Joey receivers back in October. Amazonassistant also added DVR recording capability for Dish,TiVo, DIRECTV andVerizon this March.