[Fox News] Fix autocorrect if it’s driving you ducking crazy
Frustrated with how often autocorrect is auto-wrong? Even with new AI features included in many platforms’ latest updates, autocorrect remains annoying. Let’s fix that for iOS and Android.
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Go cold turkey
Yes, you can just turn it off — no more bad guesses or awkward corrections. Just type what you mean letter by letter, like in the early days.
Note: Depending on your Android make, model and OS, steps may differ. There are just too many variations to cover all of them.
Start here on your iPhone
Bonus tip: In iOS, misspellings are underlined. To turn that off, head to Settings > General > Keyboard again and turn off Check Spelling.
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Using an Android?
Bonus tip: Under your keyboard settings, flip the switches next to “Predictive Text” and “Show Predictions Inline.”
Add your own slang
If you’re feeling ambitious, program your phone to replace a phrase with your shorthand. Think turning “brt” into “be right there” or “1234” into “Four Score and Seven Years Ago.” Pretty slick!
Pro tip: In iOS and Android, if you leave the Shortcut field blank, autocorrect will stop bugging you with alternate spellings.
Why is autocorrect capitalizing random words?
You may notice that autocorrect capitalizes random words in a sentence. If you are typing something like, “I need to call Mom and ask when She needs to go to the Store,” you’ll have to go back and make a change to all the words that shouldn’t be capitalized.
If you don’t know why autocorrect keeps capitalizing Mom and Store, take a peek at your contact list and see how you’re typing names. If you save certain words in your contact list a certain way, autocorrect assumes this is the way you always want it written.
Another simple fix for this issue is to turn off the auto-capitalization setting in your keyboard tab.
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., had a tense exchange Wednesday with President Biden’s energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, whom he accused of coordinating the release of U.S. emergency oil reserves with China.
During a hearing before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Schmitt noted that the U.S. has failed to replenish its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) since it encouraged other countries to release their stockpiles in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022.
“Two things have happened since then. We’ve not replenished our strategic reserves. And China has an enormous stockpile now,” Schmitt said, adding that U.S. reserves were at “historically low levels.”
Granholm denied that U.S. policy on its SPR was ever connected in coordination with China, saying the U.S. had encouraged multiple countries — not just China — to release their strategic reserves. She could not confirm whether China followed through on its promise to release its reserves.
Granholm conceded that China had purchased a tiny amount, perhaps 3%, from the U.S. SPR release, before Congress passed a bill banning SPR exports to China.
Schmitt cited figures that 900,000 barrels of oil had been sold to an American subsidiary of Sinopec, a Chinese-owned company, “which in turn had received billions of dollars from BHR Partners,” a private equity firm co-founded by the president’s son, Hunter Biden, who held a 10% stake in the company.
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Granholm admitted she was not aware that Hunter Biden benefited from the sale of America’s strategic oil reserves to a Chinese-affiliated company. She also said the Biden administration was waiting to purchase barrels if they are at a price that is fair to the American taxpayer.
“As the Secretary of Energy … do you regret depleting our Strategic Petroleum Reserves to historically levels?” Schmitt asked.
“No, I don’t regret doing what is right to be able to help replenish the global supply,” she said.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Schmitt accused the Biden administration and Democrats of putting “the security of the United States at risk in order to use it as a campaign talking point.”
He said the “ill-fated move” to deplete the U.S. strategic reserves “did nothing to ease the pain Americans are feeling at the gas pump.”
“Biden and Granholm are selling our oil to any and all buyers, and American taxpayers are the ones footing the bill,” Schmitt said.
FOX Business has reached out to the Energy Department for additional comment.
[Fox Business] House Republicans say Brazil using claims of ‘disinformation’ to suppress critics on X
Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government report they have a bombshell investigation into the Brazilian government’s efforts to suppress critics on the social media platform X.
The committee’s investigation says Brazil’s government threatened X and its CEO, Elon Musk, to shut down hundreds of accounts — many of which are critical of the Brazilian government.
These orders have given the social media company only two hours to comply and threatened fines of $20,000 if it did not.
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The accounts targeted, according to the report, were “critics of the Brazilian government and include former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, conservative members of the federal legislature, journalists, members of the judiciary, and even a gospel singer and a pop radio station”
The subcommittee says X indicated that court decisions in Brazil were forcing it to block these accounts and faced threats of not just fines but the arrest of X employees, causing X to shut down in Brazil.
The Brazilian courts justified their heavy-handed censorship effort, claiming “it is necessary, appropriate[,] and urgent to stop the possible spread of hate speech … by blocking accounts on social networks.”
The report warns “Congress must take seriously the warnings from Brazil and other countries seeking to suppress speech online. We must never think that it cannot happen here.”
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The subcommittee is now asking the White House to weigh in on the issue, writing in a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan to the State Department’s under secretary for civilian security and special envoy and coordinator for democracy, and human rights.
Fox Business reached out to X and the State Department for comment.
“Free speech, including free speech on digital platforms, is a fundamental and necessary part of democratic and just societies.” the letter states. It asks for the department to hand over documents on any social media censorship request from the Brazilian government “to understand what the State Department is doing to promote online free speech in Brazil and to protect against tyrannical censorship abroad.”
FOX Business’ Breck Dumas contributed to this report.
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