Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft updates Xbox Series X and S consoles to automatically switch to energy-saving Shutdown mode and is working on a smarter Sleep mode for active hours — Microsoft is planning to switch Xbox Series X and S owners over to an energy-saving power mode in a […]
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SmartVPN review
SmartVPN is affordable, very simple to use, unblocks Netflix, but performance is below average.
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A fifth of passwords used by federal agency cracked in security audit
89 percent of the department’s high-value assets had easy-to-crack passcodes.
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The Download: iRobot privacy scandal, and AI that makes images
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook When Greg unboxed a new robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he […]
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X project Mineral, which debuted in March 2018 to use AI, ML, and edge computing to “help scale sustainable agriculture”, graduates into a full Alphabet company (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Abner Li / 9to5Google:X project Mineral, which debuted in March 2018 to use AI, ML, and edge computing to “help scale sustainable agriculture”, graduates into a full Alphabet company — In October of 2020, the X Moonshot Factory officially named its “computational agriculture” project …
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Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio
Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker’s emotional tone and acoustic environment.
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This biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming
A small biotech company claims it has used a technology called reprogramming to rejuvenate old mice and extend their lives, a result suggesting that one day older people could have their biological clocks turned back with an injection—literally becoming younger. The life-extension claim in rodents, made by Rejuvenate Bio, a […]
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Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person’s voice with three seconds of sample audio (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person’s voice with three seconds of sample audio — Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker’s emotional tone and acoustic environment. — On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced …
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Backblaze review (January 2023): Is unlimited cloud storage really worth it?
No file size or cloud backup limits make Backblaze one of the best options around.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more (Aggi Cantrill/Bloomberg)
Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg:Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more — European tech companies that work with the defense industry, long an investment taboo for many venture capital firms, are drawing record amounts of funding in the wake of […]