One of the last floppy disk industries is finally modernizing
Brad Jones/Digital Trends / Digital Trends The Muni Metro Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) is set to get an upgrade to its operations that will put it approximately five generations…
Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Silenced Twitter Users
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) Elon Musk talks a big game about freedom of expression. The billionaire refers to himself as a “free speech absolutist,” and spent the last year making…
Researchers Created a Simple App That Turns Your Smartphone Screen Into an Accurate Thermometer
Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they’ve come…
Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With ‘Voicebox’ AI
According to Meta, Voicebox can take an audio sample as short as two seconds long and then match that audio style for text-to-speech generation. If true, it’s more sophisticated than…
Leaked Renders Show the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 Finally Shut Flat
The site’s renders of the Flip 4 don’t share as much about the hinge, though they show that Samsung is adding a massive exterior screen to its clamshell device while…
This Shape-Shifting Robot Could Help Astronauts Transport Objects on the Moon
Mori3: A polygon-based modular robotThe researchers believe that Mori3 can one day assist astronauts on colonies on the Moon, and perhaps on Mars in the farther future. “Our aim with…
Can ChatGPT Host a Christian Sermon? Apparently, It Can.
Advertisement This isn’t the first time humankind, in all its hubris, has tried to mix AI and religion. Notorious ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski who was at the center of a…
Meta’s Open-Source ‘MusicGen’ AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes
As described by Kreuk, the model uses an EnCodec audio tokenizer based on a transformer language model. Users can demo MusicGen through Hugging Face’s API, though, generating some music could…
How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
How reinforcement learning works. Third, over the course of a campaign, Clogger’s messages could evolve in order to take into account your responses to the machine’s prior dispatches and what…
The First Robot Vacuum That Can Climb and Clean Stairs Could Be a Game-Changer
Ascender, World’s First Stair Climbing Robot VacuumWhen it rolls up to a set of stairs, the Ascender doesn’t change direction. Instead, it uses a pair of what look like articulated…