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Meta’s latest AI suite makes speech translation more seamless and expressive

Back in August, Meta unveiled its multimodal AI translation model, SeamlessM4T, which supports nearly 100 languages for text and 36 for speech. With an updated “v2” architecture, the tech giant is now expanding on this tool to make conversational translations more spontaneous and expressive — the latter a missing key to an authentic conversation across…

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Kiss’ final show ended with a performance by digital avatars made to immortalize the band

Kiss’ final live performance at Madison Square Garden in New York last night also turned out to be the first for the band’s successors — four digital avatars that will play on in the real members’ retirement from physical shows. Kiss concluded the last show of its “The End of the Road” tour by introducing…

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Nothing might launch a mid-range phone to take on the Google Pixel 8a

Nothing now has two flagship smartphones under its belt (see our Nothing Phone 2 review for details), but we’re hearing rumors that the next handset from the company – run by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei – could be aimed at the mid-range market. This comes from tipster Sanju Choudhary (via Android Authority), who says that…

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Google is reportedly pushing the launch of its Gemini AI to 2024

Google has canceled its Gemini launch events scheduled for next week and now plans to launch its GPT-4 competitor in January, according to The Information. The company teased Gemini at I/O 2023, touting it then as a foundational model with “impressive multimodal capabilities” early in its training. Google initially planned to debut it before the…

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23andMe hackers accessed ancestry information on millions of customers using a feature that matches relatives

An SEC filing has revealed more details on a data breach affecting 23andMe users that was disclosed earlier this fall. The company says its investigation found hackers were able to access the accounts of roughly 0.1 percent of its userbase, or about 14,000 of its 14 million total customers, TechCrunch notes. On top of that,…

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Amazon is swallowing its pride to ensure its internet satellites get to orbit on time

Amazon announced on Friday that it’s signed a contract with SpaceX to deliver batches of its Project Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit in 2025. SpaceX is undoubtedly Amazon’s biggest competitor as it breaks into the satellite internet space, and already has a constellation of over 4,000 Starlink satellites in operation. It’s also a rival…

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Amazon just dropped the first teaser trailer for its Fallout series

Amazon has released the first official teaser trailer for Fallout, its upcoming live-action series based on the best-selling video games. The clip gives us a look at Amazon’s take on the post-apocalyptic wasteland, and Yellowjackets actor Ella Purnell emerging from Vault 33 to meet it for the first time. The series will be set in…