Your house might have a dozen lithium-ion batteries—in laptops and phones, electric toothbrushes, robot vacuums, smartwatches, tools, e-bikes, an electric car, or any of 40,000 other consumer products. The technology is ubiquitous. But it can also be dangerous. In New York City, alone, there were 267 fires and 18...
Duke University researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people's faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before. Previous methods can scale an image of a face up to...
When the COVID-19 pandemic began we were all so full of hope. We assumed our technology would save us from a disease that could be stymied by such modest steps as washing our hands and wearing face masks. We were so sure...
Apple announced at the WWDC 2020 that it would make transition to its own silicon chips for its Mac computers. Now, a report has surfaced revealing that MacBook Pro laptops with 13.3, 14 and 16-inch screens as well as MacBook Air will...
A few days ago, speech AI startup ElevenLabs launched a beta version of its platform that gives users the power to create entirely new synthetic voices for text-to-speech audio or to clone somebody's voice. Well, it only took the internet a few days to start using the latter for...
Despite inflation and a slowing in the global phone business due to lockdowns in China, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Fox Business his company is growing, and not experiencing the hiring freeze seen in many other tech companies.
The United States is delaying some restrictions on U.S. technology sales to Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei in what it calls an effort to ease the blow on Huawei smartphone owners and smaller U.S. telecoms providers that rely on its networking equipment.
Now that Netflix is offering mobile games on Android, there's a lingering question: how will iOS players join in when Apple's policies bar all-in-one gaming services? The hard way, apparently. In his "Power On" newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (with help from developer...
Google's super-simple and cheap cellphone service will now work with a broader selection of devices, including iPhones from arch-rival Apple. Google Fi (formerly known as Project Fi) is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), which means that instead of just using one of the "big four" carriers, it automatically jumps...
The late physicist Stephen Hawking’s last writings predict that a breed of superhumans will take over, having used genetic engineering to surpass their fellow beings. In Brief Answers to the Big Questions, to be published on Oct. 16 and excerpted today in the UK’s Sunday Times (paywall), Hawking pulls no...
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