Amazon Nova Canvas is a foundation model for developers to create high-quality images. Image: Amazon Amazon is the latest tech giant to unveil a voice AI model. According to Amazon, its Nova Sonic is “a new foundation model that unifies speech understanding and speech generation into a single model, to enable more human-like voice conversations
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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries
AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount. Wired reports that Hugging Face plans to sell Pollen’s humanoid robot, Reachy 2, and let developers download and suggest improvements to its code. Pollen Robotics, which aims to bring affordable humanoid robots to the home, was
LastPass’ history of data breaches makes it hard to recommend as a viable password manager in 2025. However, for those who wish to try LastPass, this article shows you how to set it up and maximize its available features. NordPass Employees per Company Size Micro (0-49), Small (50-249), Medium (250-999), Large (1,000-4,999), Enterprise (5,000+) Micro
Trump’s tariff policies have been all over the place since so-called “Liberation Day”, with so many pauses and changes that the only thing easy to keep track of has been the rapidly dumping stock market. In the clip above from Last Week Tonight John Oliver does his best to sum up the whole mess, talking
One of the most prominent of the smishing actors is often referred to as the Smishing Triad—although security researchers group Chinese-speaking threat actors and affiliates in different ways—which has impersonated organizations and brands in at least 121 countries, according to recent research by security company Silent Push. Around 200,000 domains have been used by the
Demand for solar energy in power-starved Nigeria has soared in the last decade thanks to worsening grid reliability and rising fuel costs. That’s drawn investor interest to Arnergy, a cleantech startup meeting that need. The company just raised a $15 million Series B extension (on top of a $3 million B1 round last year), bringing
TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2021 for Windows is a professional diagramming tool that helps you visualize data and structures, and it’s now $14.97 (reg. $249.99). As your business grows, so does the complexity of your processes and structures. Sometimes, the best way to figure out a particular task, issue, or concept is by building a
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called out SNL for a sketch about her that she described as “mean and unfunny”. Wood, who plays Chelsea in Season 3 of the HBO series, made a series of Instagram posts on Sunday directly addressing a sketch from Saturday’s SNL show. Called “The White Potus”, the