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Microsoft's VALL-E 2 can convincingly recreate human voices using just a few seconds of audio, its creators claim.

AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' — but it's too dangerous to release, scientists say

Intel's answer to AMD Zen 5, Arrow Lake, is rumoured to hit shelves sometime in October 2024. So far, we know about six SKUs: Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 9 275, Core Ultra 7 265K, Core Ultra 7 255, Core Ultra 5 245K and Core Ultra 5 240. These are essentially the K and non-K SKUs from previous generations. Now, X leaker Jaykihn has revealed what the rest of Intel's desktop lineup could look like in the coming weeks.

Entire Intel Arrow Lake lineup leaks with a total of 18 SKUs spread out across 125 W, 65 W, and 35 W tiers

The Ksana is a smartwatch with a classic clock face, but also features a display based on energy-efficient E Ink technology. The model is currently only a concept. Smartwatches come in various shapes and designs, and can also differ considerably in terms of the display technology used. For example, there are models with MIP displays that promise long battery life while the display is permanently activated as well as smartwatches with particularly colorful and bright displays such as the Apple Watch. The Ksana is a concept by designer Ravisankar R. that envisions a smartwatch with both a classic clock face and an E Ink display.

Ksana: Hybrid smartwatch concept combines clockface with an E Ink display and a number of sensors, but there is one drawback

AMD has shown off some more benchmarks of its Strix Point laptops processors. Overall, it trounces the Snapdragon X Elite and Intel Core Ultra 9 185H in a variety of workloads including gaming, content creation and productivity. AMD showed off its new Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI...

AMD Tech Day | AMD reveals more Strix Point benchmarks and AI-powered features

Studist has launched Teachme AI to automate multilingual work manual creation while reducing required labor by over 80%. Recording a video while explaining the steps of a work process is all the AI software needs to draft a subtitled, step-by-step video manual broken down into clear steps. Teachme AI is a new feature of Teachme Biz, a manual sharing and creation system for businesses.

Studist launches Teachme AI to automate multilingual work manual creation while reducing labor by over 80%

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A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a “brain-on-a-chip,” and the researchers have been working to train the robot to perform various tasks. The stem cell brain that powers the robot is attached to a neural interface chip, which powers the entire thing.
Tianjin University, one of the two institutes behind the new research, considers the design the world’s first open-source brain-on-chip system and says that it could lead to the development of more brain-like computing. The key to the entire design is an in-vitro cultured brain...

Terrifying new robot has a brain made from human stem cells

Immortality. It’s an age-old idea that has plagued humankind for centuries. Many men over the years have sought to find some way to live forever, but futurist Raymond Kurzweil believes he may have found the best way forward. According to Kurzweil’s new book, nanorobots may be the key to stopping human aging and letting us live for thousands of years.
Of course, there are many concerns about the possibility of living for thousands of years—let alone forever. And yet, new anti-aging therapy continues to be a common focus of research for acclaimed scientists. While many seek to slow down the deterioration...

Renowned scientist says humans will soon live to be 1,000 years old

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.
Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.



					
			

Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain's outer cortical cells that produces a novel 'graded' signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.
By measuring the electrical activity in sections of tissue removed during surgery on...

A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Was Detected in Human Brains

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For the first time, researchers have reconstructed fossilized chromosomes

Scientists just made a big breakthrough with woolly mammoth DNA


A quantum phenomenon has allowed scientists to develop a lens just three atoms thick, qualifying as the thinnest ever made.
Oddly, the innovative approach allows most wavelengths of light to pass right through – a feature that could see it have huge potential in optical fiber communication and gadgets like augmented reality glasses.



					
			

The researchers who invented the lens, from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Stanford University in the US, say that their innovation will progress research into lenses of this type, as well as miniature electronic systems.
"The lens can be used in applications where the view through the...

Scientists Create The Thinnest Lens on Earth Using Quantum Physics

Scientists have just unlocked one of nature’s most colossal enigmas – a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth’s genome and 3D chromosomal structures. This incredible achievement is first of its kind for any ancient DNA sample, courtesy of the combined efforts of an international research team. Woolly mammoth DNA discovery.

Woolly mammoth freeze-dried skin has active DNA after 52,000 years

The robot broke the previous record of 0.38 seconds that was set in 2018. There is a new Guinness World Record holder for the fastest Rubik’s Cube time, and it’s a robot. But don’t worry, the Japanese robot didn’t steal the world record from a human. There is a separate section of records for robots.

An AI-Powered Robot Just Solved a Rubik’s Cube in Record Time

The first human has received a Neuralink brain chip implant, according to co-founder Elon Musk. The neurotechnology company has started its first human trial since receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2023. The trial’s focus is on an implant that could potentially allow people with severe...

The first Neuralink brain implant signals a new phase for human-computer interaction

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The color yellow is gorgeous, eye-catching, and downright happy for most people. So much so that it's the main hue in the world-famous happy face—but science says it's not the best color to wear on a date.

You Shouldn't Wear Yellow on First Dates, Here's Why

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What makes a Zodiac Sign low maintenance? Independence can make someone low maintenance. Someone who is reliable, dependable, and punctual, can make someone low maintenance. Someone who tends to want to do things on their own can be low maintenance. Low-maintenance people tend to be those people who do on their own but are not necessarily alone. They rarely need or ask for help. They are self-motivated, often energetic, and can be considered leaders is many cases. Now me, some say I am low maintenance and others say I’m high maintenance. Maybe I’m both. Let's see what zodiac signs are considered low-maintenance.

5 Zodiac Signs That Are Low Maintenance

Conflicts are inevitable in life as we have different opinions. Some zodiac signs are good at arguing while others strive to create harmony and avoid arguments. Yet, conflict resolution is a crucial skill at home and work. It helps people live peacefully and in unity.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Are Most Likely to Win Arguments

There are two reels of old tape buried in the National Security Agency’s archives that contain a landmark piece of computer science history. There’s a problem though, the NSA doesn’t have a device that can play back the tapes. The tapes are a recording of a lecture...

NSA Claims It Can’t Watch an Important Tape It Recorded in the 1980s


The secret to pterosaurs taking flight long before birds and bats dominated the air was wasn't feathers or hollow bones.
Although those features no doubt helped, new research shows that a lattice-like structure stopped pterosaurs' broad-ended tails fluttering like flags in the wind and instead, once stiffened, helped guide these flying reptiles into the sky.



					
			

Pterosaurs took to the skies using powered flight about 215 million years ago, the first vertebrates to do so. Although they started out small, amongst their ranks were some of the largest flying animals in Earth's history.
Like birds, pterosaurs had feathers, but they weren't birds, nor were...

Scientists Can Finally Reveal The Secret of How Pterosaurs Took Flight

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Less than 1 nm: New technology makes tiny chips possible

7 nm, 5 nm, 3 nm. The smaller MOSFETs and FinFETs become, the more circuits are possible on the same surface area. However, development is coming...

Less than 1 nm: New technology makes tiny chips possible

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