Dave Gershgorn Humans have officially given their voice to machines. A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text. The system is […]
Day: December 26, 2017
4 Technology Trends That Will Transform Our World in 2018
Predicting the future requires hubris, and it should therefore be met with more than a terabyte of skepticism. In past years, I’ve made some calls that have proved prescient like predicting way back in 2011 that social media would determine the U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, […]
2018 Is the Year Electric Cars Really Catch On
For all the hype, electric cars still make up a tiny percentage of global vehicle sales. Like, less than one percent tiny. But there’s a growing movement around the world to put a deadline on the life of the internal combustion engine. This year India, […]
New on Sports Illustrated: Former Steelers LB James Harrison Visits Patriots At Gillette Stadium selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Here is the news James Harrison is visiting the Patriots after he went unclaimed on waivers. on Sport Illustrated
Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor
Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor Published on December 26, 2017 at 07:40PM Traveling the skies by jet lifts us far from the hustle and bustle of the world below. From a report: But many flyers […]
New on Sports Illustrated: Former Steelers LB James Harrison Visits Patriots At Gillette Stadium selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Here is the news James Harrison is visiting the Patriots after he went unclaimed on waivers. on Sport Illustrated
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Nintendo Switch’s online subscription service may not launch until next fall
Image credit: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch is undeniably a hit, and it’s all the more remarkable for achieving that success without a subscription-based online service such as Xbox Live on the Xbox One and PlayStation Network on the PlayStation 4. Nintendo does, in fact, eventually […]
‘Astrocyte’ explores how architecture can interact with humans
The aerial scaffold structure was part of Toronto’s Expo for Design, Innovation and Technology (EDIT 2017), and hosted at an abandoned Unilever soap-manufacturing factory. It was built from 300,000 components by Philip Beesley Architect Inc. (PBAI), in collaboration with Beesley’s Living Architecture Systems Group at […]
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