In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes
At Least for Now Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends : Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses sell personal superintelligence. I'll skip Paul Kedrosky : Four Ideas, Sunday Edition: Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Meta's St...
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tec...
Google updates Bard with 43 more languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese, and privacy features requested by EU regulators, and debuts the tool in Europe and Brazil
It's now available in the EU and Brazil after adding privacy features such as user opt outs and more notices on how information is used. — It can now speak answers in addition to text results — You ...
LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry
scholarly, creative, economic, etc—are going to fall away, as people are freed to do things only limited by their imagination, or, more practically, by the old costs of producing software” https://twi...
Google unveils Dataset Search, a search engine that will cover datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news orgs
covers a variety of public and commercial domains, e.g. “police shootings” results include Kaggle, city portals, @datadotworld, and ICPSR: http://toolbox.google.com/... http://twitter.com/... Paul Ked...