Author: Zach_Wilson
Amazon’s Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI
Amazon debuted an updated Echo Show 8 during its annual fall event on Wednesday, highlighting the device’s new display, camera, microphones and spatial-audio capabilities. Generative AI helps the Echo Show 8 respond dynamically to the user’s position in the physical world, offering different displays depending on how far away someone…
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George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
More authors sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, joining other writers in pursuing legal action against generative AI companies for using their books to train AI models. The Authors Guild and 17 well-known authors like Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, and Jodi Picoult filed the lawsuit in the Southern…
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Meta’s paid verification for businesses will cost almost double what it does for individuals
Meta’s paid verification service is no longer just for individuals. The social network is expanding its subscription service to businesses on Facebook, Instagram and, eventually, WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s “Conversations” event. Meta Verified first launched for Facebook and Instagram earlier this year, but wasn't available for those…
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Amazon’s big device event 2023 live recap: Alexa goes all ChatGPT, new Echo Show and Hub, Fire TV TV, and more
Refresh 2023-09-20T14:47:58.772Z (Image credit: Future) This is where the magic will happen, starting in 10 minutes. This event isn’t available to stream publicly, so you’ll need to follow along here for all the hot gossip from our man on the ground. 2023-09-20T14:56:05.778Z (Image credit: Future) Speaking of our man, here…
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Amazon’s big device event 2023 live – we’re there with all the latest news
Refresh 2023-09-20T15:04:30.901Z With generative AI, a “superhuman assistant” is “within reach”, says Limp. A billion devices have connected to Alexa in the last decade, with tens of millions of uses per hour. 2023-09-20T15:02:45.640Z AI has already been mentioned, drink! Bet we’ll hear a lot about a smart Alexa today. 2023-09-20T15:02:17.979Z…
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Apple reportedly stopped short of bringing a stock trading feature to iPhone
Apple came close to creating an investing feature for the iPhone that would’ve let users buy and sell stocks directly on the device, according to a report from CNBC. The company reportedly started working on the investing feature during the meme stock hype in 2020 but ultimately pivoted away from…
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