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Roomba Testers Feel Misled After Intimate Images Ended Up on Facebook
An investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media. iRobot said it had consent to collect this kind of data from inside homes — but participants say otherwise. When Greg unboxed a new Roomba robot vacuum cleaner in December Read more…
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Microsoft’s New AI Can Simulate Anyone’s Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio
On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything — and do it in a way that attempts to Read more…
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Britain’s Groundbreaking Satellite Launch Ends in Failure
Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit. The “horizontal launch” mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest Read more…
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Microsoft Looks To Add OpenAI’s Chatbot Technology To Word, Email
In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating OpenAI’s artificial intelligence in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and other apps so customers can automatically generate text using simple prompts, The Information reported, citing a person with direct knowledge of Read more…
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How a ‘Holy Grail’ Wheat Gene Discovery Could Keep Feeding a Warming Planet
“Wheat now provides 20% of the calories consumed by humans every day,” writes the Guardian. Unfortunately, “Thanks to human-induced global heating, our planet faces a future of increasingly severe heat waves, droughts and wildfires that could devastate harvests in future, triggering widespread famine in their wake. “But the crisis could Read more…