Author: Zach_Wilson
Artifact is getting an AI-powered text-to-speech feature to read you the news
Artifact — the new-ish news app from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger — is adding an AI-powered text-to-speech feature that will read you news articles. The company is offering the new feature as part of a partnership with Speechify. Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow are among the voices…
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Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts
Google is delaying the broad expansion of its Find My Device feature, and it says it’s doing so with personal safety in mind. “User safety and the prevention of unwanted location tracking is a top priority for Android,” Google’s Erik Kay announced in a blog post today. “At this time…
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AI “doesn’t allow” for “creativity” says Baldur’s Gate 3 voice actor
In an interview with TRG this afternoon (July 27), Baldur’s Gate 3 voice actors Devora Wilde – playing Lae’zel – and Jennifer English, who plays Shadowheart, talked about the use of AI in games instead of human actors. Wilde spoke on the ongoing SAG-AFRA and Writers Guild of America strikes,…
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Nvidia reportedly cans the RTX 4090 Ti, but more mid-range GPUs may still be coming
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 Ti graphics card has been a constant topic on the tech industry grapevine since at least 2022, with plenty of rumors circulating about everything from its specs to its design. A new report, however, states that it may not be released at all. It seems that…
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Nearly half of Ubuntu users could be vulnerable to these security flaws
Wiz researchers Sagi Tzadik and Shir Tamari have identified a pair of vulnerabilities that are estimated to be affecting two in five Ubuntu users, so users of the popular Linux distro are being urged to update now. The vulnerabilities, being tracked as CVE-2023-32629 and CVE-2023-2640, were both dealt with in…
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Aporia feels like it’s going to be a different and devastating kind of time travel thriller
Like many of the movies debuting at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Well Go USA’s new sci-fi thriller Aporia from writer / director Jared Moshé riffs on well-known sci-fi tropes to tell a deeply personal story about — among other things — devastating emotional loss. But whereas most…
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