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Microsoft Teams meetings are getting a new interpreter feature that lets each participant speak or listen in the language of their choosing. Interpreter in Teams uses real-time AI-powered speech-to-speech translation to simulate your speaking voice during meetings.
A preview will be available in early 2025 that will include up to nine languages, and the ability for the interpreter feature to simulate your personal voice in a different language.
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PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more Read more âș
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Alex Jones in 2022. | Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired Infowars, the conspiracy theory-riddled site run by Alex Jones, in a bankruptcy auction. In a press release posted to X Thursday, The Onion announced that it plans to âend Infowarsâ relentless barrage of disinformation for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onionâs relentless barrage of humor for goodâ... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Short-form posting platform Bluesky crossed the 15 million user mark today amid a recent surge of user signups in the wake of the US presidential election. Thatâs according to a stat-tracking site put together by Bluesky developer Jaz, using the Bluesky API. The platform, which rests on the decentralized AT Protocol, added about a million new users in the last week. Bluesky COO Rose... Read more âș
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Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, youâve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, itâs gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length. But... Read more âș
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Image: Freevee Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The serviceâs content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who donât pay for Prime, Deadline reports. The brand will be phased out âover the coming weeks,â Deadline says. Freevee originally launched out of Amazon-owned IMDb in 2019 as IMDb Freedive and... Read more âș
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Apple Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 with Quantec Room Simulator | Image: Apple Apple today announced some minor updates to Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad, including the ability to search for plug-ins and sources and the addition of more analog-simulating sounds. In Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1, you can now reorder channel strips and plug-ins in the mixer and plug-in... Read more âș
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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to âmonopolize the generative AI market.â The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member. Microsoft... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images If you want to preserve the existing version of Lil Jonâs âGet Lowâ in your brain, maybe donât listen to this cover T-Pain made with Mark Zuckerberg â excuse me, Z-Pain. Their version transforms the âGet Lowâ I got down to at all my school dances into a song with a much slower tempo complete with an acoustic guitar. Trust me, I... Read more âș
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Social network Bluesky, in a post on Friday, says that it has âno intentionâ of taking user content to train generative AI tools. It made the statement shortly ahead of competitor X implementing its new terms of service that spell out how it can analyze user text and other information to train its generative AI tools. âA number of artists and creators have made... Read more âș
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The Zefiro is a tiny USB-C MIDI controller that can be played like a wind instrument. | Image: Kickstarter An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used to play simulated instruments with even less skill... Read more âș
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Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the worldâs largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Muskâs big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology âis going to fail and never be successful.â Zeng, the chairman of Chinaâs Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, âWe had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesnât know how to make... Read more âș
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