Author: Zach_Wilson
How to change Amazon Alexa’s voice and personality
You have several new options for Alexa's voice and personality. Here's how to find and change those settings. Source
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Quote of the day by Motorola’s cell phone pioneer Martin Cooper: ‘People want to talk to other people — not a house, or an office, or a car’ — blueprinting the start of a new era of communications
The American engineer Mark Cooper is considered one of the leading pioneers of the wireless communications industry, envisioning a world in which people would communicate wherever they were and not from fixed locations. Without his work in the mid-20th century, the mobile communications industry would arguably be non-existent. “People want…
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OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users’ API keys. At the time,…
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Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it’ll be a long wait
Announced at BlizzCon 2026, the new StarCraft won't be here until spring 2030. Source
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Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human…
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‘Lyrics represent one of the few moments in streaming when the listener stops being passive’: Musixmatch product chief on why lyrics — not algorithms — are turning casual streamers into super-fans
“Lyrics are where people find meaning in music.” So says Marco Paglia, Chief Product Officer at Musixmatch – the platform delivering time-synced lyrics and translations across all major music streaming services. At a time when passive background streaming feels like it dominates the landscape, I spoke to Marco to find…
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