The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software
Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. The former executive vice president of Samsung Research’s Global AI Centers specializes in end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end text-to-speech tools, and language modeling. “The most rewarding part […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Microsoft-Powered Chatbot Just Disappeared
Those concerns are part of the reason OpenAI said in January that it would ban people from using its technology to create chatbots that mimic political candidates or provide false information related to voting. The company also said it wouldn’t allow people to build applications for political campaigns or lobbying. While the Kennedy chatbot page […]
How activists blur the lines between birth control and abortion
The national debate over IVF, unfolding after an Alabama court decision prompted multiple clinics in the state to halt operations, prompts a question: What might be next? Could other fertility treatments and even birth control be under threat given that Roe v. Wade is no longer the law? If the idea that birth control could […]
4 strategies data-driven CISOs need to take now to defend their budgets
Enterprise organizations collectively spend billions of dollars every year on security tools and systems to protect them from an evolving threat landscape. Yet, despite the massive annual investment, the number of data breaches continues to rise. For the past decade, IT security budgets have been considered an untouchable line item in the budget and have […]
Microsoft Edge users report serious issues following recent update
Microsoft Edge has reportedly pulled its latest update, as users experience significant issues with the web browser. The most recent update to long-term Google Chrome competitor Microsoft Edge (122.0.2365.63) has seemingly broken the browser, with many users reporting that the browser is virtually unusable. Following the update, the bug appeared, meaning Edge couldn’t load websites, […]
How melting Arctic ice leads to European drought and heatwaves
Enlarge / The Wamme river is seen at a low level during the European heatwave on Aug 10, 2022 in Rochefort, Belgium. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images The Arctic Ocean is mostly enclosed by the coldest parts of the Northern Hemisphere’s continents, ringed in by Siberia, Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, with only a small opening to […]
Waymo scores a critical robotaxi permit, Fisker cuts more workers and Apple car fades away
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