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Microsoft has shown off its latest research in text-to-speech AI with a model called VALL-E that can simulate someone's voice from just a three-second audio sample, Ars Technica has reported. The speech can not only match the timbre but also the emotional tone of the speaker, and even the acoustics of a room. It could

In an email sent to users, Meta said it will continue supporting Quest 1 with a few — but pretty big — changes. While owners can still use the device and the apps available for it, the Quest 1 will no longer be receiving new features. In addition, Meta will only be rolling out critical

I’ve been captivated by The Last of Us since I first played it shortly after it was released for the PS3 way back in 2013. Its ruined, dangerous but somehow beautiful post-pandemic world was compellingly rendered by developer Naughty Dog, and the tense combat driven by stealth and a need to conserve your resources felt

January 10, 2023 2:01 AM Image Credit: Maverick Games Several gaming veterans announced today the new studio they’re founding: Maverick Games. The studio is currently staffed by several former members of Playground Games, the dev behind the Forza Horizon titles. The studio is already working on its first game, an unnamed open-world title set to

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Since CES is owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association, it makes perfect sense that it is focused on consumer tech. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t significant enterprise business takeaways, particularly around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). That is

Every day, millions of standard English speakers enjoy the benefits provided by natural language processing (NLP) models. But for speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), technologies like voice-operated GPS systems, digital assistants, and speech-to-text software are often problematic because large NLP models frequently are unable to understand or generate words in AAVE. Even worse

January 9, 2023 11:36 AM Steam Deck.Image Credit: Valve SteamDB revealed via Twitter that the PC gaming platform hsd surpassed its milestone of 10 million players in-game concurrently. On the same day (January 8), it also broke its record of most online users at once, with the new record being just over 33 million. Specifically

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. These days, it’s no exaggeration to say that every company is a data company. And if they’re not, they need to be. That’s why more organizations are investing in the modern data stack (think: Databricks and Snowflake, Amazon EMR, BigQuery, Dataproc). However, these