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.
Social media company X’s platform has less antisemitic content compared with other applications, according to audits it has commissioned, X owner Elon Musk said on Monday at a conference on combating antisemitism.
Musk visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau site of a former Nazi German concentration camp earlier in the day, before appearing at the conference in the southern Polish city of Krakow, which addressed the rise in antisemitism since the Israel-Hamas conflict started in Octo
For the past 20 years, the media’s working relationship with big technology platforms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. has been a Faustian bargain. Tech giants provided access to the largest audience in human history (not an exaggeration) and in exchange, the media industry handed over ultimate control of their own fate. Big tech controlled the media’s understanding of analytics, KPIs, and editorial value, all while mediating their relationship with both audiences and advert
In an Instagram video posted on his account last month, former Hype House member and influencer Tayler Holder sits on a stool wearing a T-shirt that says “Jesus Loves You.” “A lot of you probably don’t know much about me,” he tells an off-screen audience. “You’ve seen a small part of my life on a screen and always kind of known me as that TikTok kid.”
But, as always, the comments tell another story. “All of the sudden yo