Ello, the AI-powered app that is designed to help young children learn to read, is expanding its library.
The company (which shouldn’t be confused with the defunct social media startup) plans to add an enormous catalog of e-books—more than 700 original titles, many of them created using AI—to its collection to boost its educational efforts. The books will be available through the Ello app, which leverages speech recognition technology to assist parents and teach
When leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies convened at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, last week, artificial intelligence was a big topic of conversation.
For good reason, too, as the international organization released a report ahead of the meeting identifying AI as one of the biggest global risks in the next two years and over the next decade.
But dire warnings about how AI is “incredibly dangerous”
As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside.In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding. What does it mean to layer up? Is it different from just putting on a coat? Is there a way to do it wrong?People in Minnesota, a state that is no stranger to the cold, have wisdom to share.
WHAT IS LAYERING?
Layering means wearing multiple pieces of
With awards season in high gear, we’re reminded of the streaming series and movie releases over the past year that demonstrate an existence— sometimes dire—without our fundamental right to privacy securely in place.
Increasingly, we’re seeing instances of life on the big and small screen where personal information is available at the click of a device. Storylines are continually normalizing life without privacy with characters being found through hacked r
Non-player characters (NPCs) in video games generally have a pretty limited range. They might have a restricted number of canned responses to your questions but generally act as cannon fodder or story exposition.
Convai, however, believes they have a lot more potential.
Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on the surface of the Moon on January 20, 2024. Despite a power issue with the lander, the event holds both political and technical importance. It’s Japan’s first lunar landing—making it only the fifth country in the world to successfully land on the Moon. This is a significant achievement and solidifies Japan’s position as a leader in space technology.
While the craft land
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) — As New Hampshire voters prepared to cast their votes in the state’s first-in-the nation primary Tuesday, a robocall is circulating in the state urging Democrats to stay home—using a fake audio of U.S. President Joe Biden.
“It’s important that you save your vote for the November election. . . . voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again,” the call says.
Today, AI-powered synthetic voice cloning company ElevenLabs announced that it has closed an $80 million series B round. The new funding gives the two-year-old startup a valuation of more than $1 billion, up from $100 million last June. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, and other investors included Sequoia Capital and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
Through ElevenLabs’s speech-generation app users can produce voices that sound real, even adjusting vocal characteris
Launching breakthrough innovations in the market requires taking the long view and accepting that most disruptive technologies take time to permeate and change consumer behavior, even more so in the sustainability space, where purchase behavior continues to lag stated consumer values of protecting the environment—often dubbed the “value action gap.” Because what people say and do are two different things (especially in sustainability and food), it’s easy for compan
BOSTON (AP) — State-backed Russian hackers broke into Microsoft’s corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams, the company said Friday.
In a blog post, Microsoft said the intrusion began in late November and was discovered on January 12. It said the same highly skilled Russian hacking team behind the SolarWinds breach was responsible.