Amazon is introducing a new speaking style for Alexa and adding some speaking styles for other AI voices, the company said today. The longform speaking style is available for US developers who want a reading voice that sounds more natural when reading long pieces of content, like articles or podcasts. Amazon says the longform style…
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During the keynote for the Nokia 8.3 5G, HMD Global had an ace up its sleeve for Android Go-powered smartphones — Google Camera Go.Google Camera Go is a repackaging of the camera prowess we’ve seen on Pixel devices — and numerous unofficial GCam ports — for even the most basic of Android hardware.HMD Global is…
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On the surface, Code 8 is essentially a grab bag of sci-fi and genre tropes. To paraphrase Bill Hader’s Stefon, this movie has everything: superpowered X-Men-esque mutants, dystopian surveillance drones, robocops that look like Chappie after a glow-up, an allegory for the human condition. It’s about a guy named Connor (Robbie Amell) in a fictional…
Until mid-March, the emergency room entrance at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, looked much like the entrance to other ERs: an illuminated red “EMERGENCY” sign mounted on a brick facade, above an open space where cars and ambulances could unload patients.By the end of the month, part of that once-open space had been enclosed…
During the third week of March, as the pandemic coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was beginning to grip the city of Detroit, an ambulance sped through its streets to Henry Ford Hospital. Inside, a 58-year-old airline worker struggled to understand what was happening to her. Like hundreds of other Covid-19 patients flooding the city’s emergency rooms,…
Just over three years ago, on a bitingly cold spring day, I drove out to Rockport, Massachusetts, a small town on the tip of Cape Ann, to meet with a defector from the old Soviet bloc. I had been on my way to Washington, DC, to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian interference…
The novel coronavirus pandemic is punishing some venture-backed startups, as lockdown orders jeopardize business plans years in the making. Revenue streams have evaporated overnight, leaving young companies desperate to cut expenses and attract more funding as investors tighten their wallets.The federal government’s $350 billion small-business loan program could be a lifeline, offering low-interest loans that…
The perovskite solar cell is a photovoltaic wunderkind. Only a decade old, this next-generation solar technology is already hitting efficiency milestones that took conventional silicon solar cells nearly half a century to achieve. The cells are made from a class of materials called perovskite whose properties enable thin, flexible solar cells that can be printed…
When Apple discontinued the tiny iPhone SE back in the fall of 2018, it left people who wanted a smaller, less expensive iPhone without many options and was seen as part of a larger strategy to push people toward more expensive phones and drive iPhone profits even higher. Now the iPhone SE is back.Apple just…
