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Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech
Xiaolang Zhang, the former Apple employee who pleaded guilty to stealing information about the development of the company's self-driving vehicle, has been sentenced to 120 days in prison followed by a three-year supervised release. Zhang was arrested back in …
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Korgs MicroKorg 2 and KingKorg Neo are overdue updates to its virtual analog synthesizers
NAMM 2024 is right around the corner, but Korg isn't waiting for the festivities to officially begin. It's announced about a dozen new products over the last few days. Among them are updates to two of the company's virtual analog synths, the roughly 10-year-o…
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ElevenLabs reportedly banned the account that deepfaked Bidens voice with its AI tools
ElevenLabs, an AI startup that offers voice cloning services with its tools, has banned the user that created an audio deepfake of Joe Biden used in an attempt to disrupt the elections, according to Bloomberg. The audio impersonating the president was used in…
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MIT researchers have developed a rapid 3D-printing technique that uses liquid metal
Researchers at MIT have developed a rapid 3D-printing technique that uses liquid metal to allow for extremely fast prints. The process can manufacture large aluminum components in minutes, whereas many pre-existing techniques would take hours to finish the …
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Nikon made an AI imaging camera that detects when cows are about to give birth
Nikon has taken its imaging and AI prowess in a unexpected direction with a new system that can warn farmers when a cow is about to give birth, Kyodo News has reported. It's designed to reduce the need to constantly check large numbers of pregnant cows during…
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NASAs new X-59 plane could hit supersonic speeds with minimal sonic boom
NASA’s X-59 Quesst supersonic commercial jet, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin , will have its flight test livestreamed as a demonstration of how quiet it can be in the air. The $247.5 million Quesst , whose name is short for Quiet SuperSonic Tec…
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Valves new guidelines will allow for more AI content in games
Valve has introduced new rules to abide by that will allow the company to add more games with AI content to its Steam gaming platform. To start with, it's updating its content survey form for developers so that they can give the company a description of how t…
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Touring LG’s high-tech camping trailer at CES 2024
LG’s Labs department often takes technology and existing products and spins them into lifestyle-heavy ideas and notions. LG Labs was responsible for the Dukebox, a vacuum tube-driven speaker with a transparent OLED screen, an LG Gram with two displays, and se…
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Sundance documentary Eternal You shows how AI companies are ‘resurrecting’ the dead
A woman has a text chat with her long-dead lover. A family gets to hear a deceased elder speak again. A mother gets another chance to say goodbye to her child, who died suddenly, via a digital facsimile. This isn't a preview of the next season of Black Mirror…
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OpenAIs policy no longer explicitly bans the use of its technology for military and warfare
Just a few days ago, OpenAI's usage policies page explicitly states that the company prohibits the use of its technology for "military and warfare" purposes. That line has since been deleted. As first noticed by The Intercept, the company updated the page on …
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