Microsoft researchers have announced a new application that uses artificial intelligence to ape a person’s voice with just seconds of training. The model of the voice can then be used for text-to-speech applications. The application called VALL-E can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a three-second enrollment recording of a speaker as […]

The new year is booted and running, destined to bring solutions and challenges that will impact all industries. As the floundering economy continues to hopscotch around broken supply chains and the worsening cybersecurity breakdowns, businesses and analysts alike are sharpening their focus on what lies ahead. Businsiders spoke with IT executives to gather predictions for […]

Meta is taking to court a law enforcement intelligence company for gathering data about users of its Facebook and Instagram properties. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, alleges that Voyager Labs, an international scraping and surveillance service, improperly collected data from those properties through fake accounts, which is a violation of the […]

When I received the AnkerWork SR500 Speakerphone shown above, it seemed like a useful multipurpose office accessory to make business phone use and video conferences more productive. It turned out as little more than a one-trick device only helpful in corporate and SMB conference rooms. The disconnect in this device’s purpose escaped me at first. […]

CES is undeniably the most famous and influential tech show on the planet, held yearly in Las Vegas. With the pandemic still hanging over the world last year, its 2022 attendance was a shadow of its former self, attracting only 45,000 people — down from its pre-Covid high 150,000 — with dozens of exhibitors canceling […]

Generative AI is a category of artificial intelligence that uses algorithms to create things like literature, graphics, music, and language models. Gen-AI has been burning up the news of late and promises to change computing. ChatGPT is the current star of this category, but Google is spinning up a challenger because ChatGPT has scared the […]

The most popular search engine on the internet may be headed for some rough sailing in the next one or two years, according to the creator of Gmail. During that time frame, artificial intelligence will eliminate the need for search engine result pages, which is where Google makes most of its money, and even if […]

Do you want to run a full Linux desktop installation on your Chromebook without giving up ChromeOS? This alteration will give you access to both complete operating systems running simultaneously so you can move between them with a keyboard shortcut. You may already use the “Crostini” partition to run individual Linux apps alongside ChromeOS. That […]

It’s no secret that the smartphone has dramatically cannibalized the traditional digital camera space over the past several years. According to Statista, worldwide revenue for digital cameras was US$21.26 billion in 2022, down from a high of $29.03 billion in 2014. At Wednesday’s Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event in San Francisco, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy […]