Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members
your dead relative's James Hennessy / The Terminal : Art, death and imagined conversations Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : So Will The New Alexa Feature Resurrect The Dead Or Not? Kate Kozuch / Tom's Gui...
Meta will shut down its video speed dating service Sparked on January 20, after launching it in April 2021 and testing it in select markets
So, what happened this week in the Tech & Startup world? David Lumb / CNET : Meta reportedly shutters video speed-dating service before it exits beta David Cohen / Adweek : Meta NPE Team's Sparked Vid...
Kuo: high-end 2022 iPhones and maybe the entire lineup, if production permits, will lose the notch in favor of a hole-punch design; iPhone SE 5G coming in 2022
and it could be an 8-inch beast Chris Smith / BGR : Here's when Apple will likely release its next big iPhone SE upgrade Steven Hung / Micky : Foldable iPhone within the horizon, could arrive in 2023 ...
Sources: Samsung plans to launch a smart speaker for ~$200, running Bixby and focusing on audio quality and connected device management, in first half of 2018
But How Smart Will It Be? John Keefer / Neowin : Samsung may launch its own smart speaker by Q2 of next year Chris Chavez / Phandroid : Samsung to launch Bixby-powered smart speaker during first half ...
Face ID uses front, infrared cameras plus flood illuminator, dot projector sensors to model face, requires user gaze to unlock and pay, can be used in apps
What It Means to ‘Go Rogue’ at Apple's iPhone Event John Leyden / The Register : Apple's facial recognition: Well, it is more secure for the, er, sleeping user James Vincent / The Verge : The iPhone X...
Reddit now allows users to upload videos; videos can be up to 15 minutes long, with file sizes of less than 1 GB
anticipate more ads Matt Lopez / VideoInk - Medium : Reddit Can Now Host Video — Next Stop Pre-Roll Ads? David Lumb / Engadget : Reddit has grown and maintained its internet prominence … Upvoted : Vid...
Mixpanel launches Predict, which applies machine learning to predict user engagement in as little as 30 minutes, working to speed up diagnostics to 30 seconds
David Lumb / Fast Company :