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Apple fixes Siri’s robotic voice with deep learning – hear the difference Ahead of the launch of iOS 11 this fall, Apple has published a research paper detailing its methods for improving Siri to make the voice assistant sound more natural, with the help of machine […]

I’ve had social anxiety disorder – and know you don’t have to live with it A fascinating study from the University of Virginia has shed new light on the much-ignored problem of social anxiety. In 169 adolescents assessed at the age of 15 and followed up […]

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with shell, Edge, and input improvements Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, with three minor additions as well as shell, Edge, and input improvements. This is one of the last builds of the upcoming Windows 10 […]

Apple Reveals 3 New Upgrades Coming to Siri in iOS 11 Apple engineers are hard at work improving Siri, if three new posts on a company blog are any indication. The three articles were posted to Apple’s Machine Learning Journal this month, and all three detail […]

How Roche Tweaked an Aging Drug to Keep Profits Rolling In In the remote forests of northern Sweden, Anders Svenningsson’s multiple sclerosis patients have benefited from a drug he’s been prescribing for the past eight years. It doesn’t require weekly injections, doesn’t leave patients feeling achy […]

Paid Program: How AI Is Driving Innovation A home is the biggest purchase most consumers will ever make, so figuring out which ones to consider and how much to pay can be a stressful, time-consuming process. In fact, 52 percent of homebuyers say finding the right […]

Blockchain and the future of work: disruptors Colony and Chronobank will change the way we earn The kids of tomorrow will have 10 different currencies in their wallets just like today we have 10 different bank cards. The bling factor of what currency they use will […]

Using machine learning to improve patient care Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients while making real-time treatment decisions, especially when […]

Volkswagen Will Revive Its Iconic Microbus, and It’s Going to Be Electric Volkswagen (vlkpf) has announced that it will produce an electric version of its Microbus, the iconic, bug-eyed “hippie bus” most often associated with free-wheeling road trips to Woodstock. The new model is a production […]