The weather’s warming up but it’s still cool enough to get a pot of stew, or curry, going. This week we are cooking for the fading winter while keeping an eye on spring, with recipes like a hearty cassoulet, a French stew, and spicy vegan black bean burgers. If you still have a butternut squash...
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Image) On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently used image of a 1972 Playboy model named Lena Forsén. The so-called “Lenna image,” (Forsén added an extra “n” to her name in her Playboy...
Enlarge / Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. The compression utility, known as xz Utils, introduced the malicious...
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art ability to read words aloud using an electronic voice. Now, using deep-learning AI models, software can create not only realistic-sounding voices, but also convincingly imitate existing voices using small samples of...
For the casually initiated, an Academy Award is the key that unlocks doors of opportunities for one’s Hollywood career. But everything that glitters isn’t always gold in a place built on creating and maintaining illusion. Take Louis Gossett Jr., the Academy Award-winning actor who died March 29 at 87. Conventional wisdom says that after winning...
The 2002 NBA All-Star Game contains one of those Kobe Bryant moments that tell you so much about who he was on the court. The game is an exhibition, and players generally don’t care much about who wins. Well, players not named Kobe Bryant. The Philadelphia native wanted to win MVP at home, in the...