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New AI headphone prototype filters out noise, focuses on voices
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2024
Most active noise-canceling headphones work by producing sound waves to counteract lower-frequency environmental rumbles like engine drones. But they end up canceling all sound in those frequencies, potentially removing audio you want to hear. The new prototype aims to give users more nuanced noise control.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
WD's large-capacity portable hard drives are back with new 6TB models
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2024
Western Digital's portable 2.5-inch HDDs are now available in 6TB variants. The new models are the highest-capacity portable HDDs currently on the market, as WD's offerings have maxed out at 5TB since 2017.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Slack has been siphoning user data to train AI models without asking permission
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2024
The revelation, which blew up online this week after a user called it out on X/Twitter, has plenty of people peeved that Slack didn't make this clearer from the jump. Corey Quinn, an executive at Duckbill Group, kicked up the fuss with an angry post asking "I'm sorry Slack, you're...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Six ways to eliminate the unhelpful "AI Overviews" in Google search results
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2024
If you share my feelings, we have a few ways that you can avoid Google's terrible AI search summaries. They are not foolproof or as ideal as just switching it off (as Google would have you believe), but they can at least get you straight results without the AI BS.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Valve's next game is a hero shooter called Deadlock – mixes Overwatch, Valorant, DOTA, and others
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
A leaker known for reporting on Valve projects recently shared screenshots of a rumored upcoming online game from the company. Called Deadlock, the competitive shooter has drawn comparisons to established titles like Overwatch, Valorant, and Valve's own DOTA 2.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft plans to make the next Call of Duty a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
The enormously successful Call of Duty franchise has entertained first-person shooter fans on all platforms since 2003. The title is one of the main reasons Microsoft fought tooth and nail for approval of its $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition. Redmond's gaming arm has fully embraced a subscription-based future, with the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
NASA's Juno images hint at shifting ice shell over Europa's underground ocean
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
The high-resolution pictures, taken during Juno's flyby of Europa on September 29, 2022, seem to support the "true polar wander" theory – that Europa's ice shell is essentially adrift from its rocky mantle below.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sony doesn't want companies to use its music to train generative AI algorithms
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
Sony sent a letter to more than 700 companies and organizations to take a stand against copyright abuse in AI training practices. Sony Music Group is warning corporations dealing with AI, particularly generative AI ventures, that they are not authorized to use music data owned by the label to teach...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI partners with Reddit to put users' posts in ChatGPT
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
In a joint statement announcing the partnership, the companies say that the internet needs to be kept open, and part of that means Reddit content needs to be "accessible to those fostering human learning and researching ways to build community, belonging, and empowerment online."Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
TikTok is testing a new option to upload 60-minute videos, YouTube style
Posted on Friday May 17, 2024
Despite suffering legal pressures coming from many parts of the Western world, TikTok is still trying to grow its business prospects with new user-centric features. As spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra and later confirmed by TechCrunch, the Chinese video social network is experimenting with an option to upload...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »