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In the United States, thousands scammed out of cash by AI mimicking loved one’s voices
The elderly are frequently targeted, and potential victims are cautioned to authenticate the caller's identity outside of a voice call
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Analog Audio Interfacing
You can make all the signals digital, but sound is still an analog phenomenon. And sometimes using analog audio equipment, or analog connections, is still the best choice because...
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Skillset: Integrating NDI
My first experience with NDI, NewTek’s software platform for video over IP, was to install the software tools on my office computers and see how it behaved. Very cool,...
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This YouTube video is causing Google Pixel phones to abruptly crash
Over 40 years later, Alien is giving viewers a new kind of scare
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Treasure trove of 45 years of Apple products to be auctioned next month
The collection belonged to late historian Hanspeter Luzi
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Skillset: Sound Management
I have a client with a large executive conference room. The table is around 40ft long and seats 40+ people, each of whom has a push-to-talk table mic. There...
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WATCH: Why the human eye sees a color that doesn’t exist
When we look at a rainbow, we see a full spectrum of light. Every colour we could imagine. Except one – magenta. Where is it? Well, officially magenta doesn’t...
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WATCH: This drum machine makes music from heart scans
The CHD-4 uses the heart scans of four children with heart defects to create soundscapes and raise awareness for congenital heart disease.
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Samsung’s Bixby will soon be able to answer calls with your voice
The feature is currently available in Korea, and should be coming overseas soon
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UPDATE: Microsoft forcing free Teams users to pay up or lose their data
Retirement of Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will occur on April 12
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WATCH: Youtuber spends $14,000 and countless hours building gargantuan keyboard
This fully-functional keyboard brings new meaning to "full-sized."
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Steelcase resurrects the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of home-office furniture
Over 80 years in the making, these classic designs fetch a hefty sum
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Frontier launches symmetrical 5Gbps plan across their fiber network
Less than 2 minutes to download a 100 minute, 8K film sounds pretty impressive
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WATCH: Youtuber gives London’s Knightrider Court signage a cheeky ‘upgrade’
Unfortunately, the upgrade didn't cause the sign to start talking
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Microsoft blames ‘networking configuration issue’ for global service outage
The company says they are monitoring services after implementing a network rollback
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mBeat USB4 14-in-1 Docking Station turns your laptop into a full workstation
When working on a laptop either at home or in the field, we’re naturally limited by the capabilities of our work setup. Now, these limitations can be lifted with...
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FAA’s grounding of all U.S. flights points to vastly outdated technology
The Department of Transportation describes system as "failing vintage hardware."
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LG issues recall for 86 inch Smart TVs over tipping hazard
Over 52,000 TVs are affected
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Microsoft’s VALL-E can reproduce a voice after hearing a 3 second clip
Trained on 60,000 hours of speech, VALL-E at times sounds eerily human
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Watch out Google Pixel 7 owners: your camera glass may spontaneously combust
The issue seems to the result of a manufacturing defect
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Solar cell efficiency record broken once again
The record has been broken for the third time in just over a year as implementation of solar power becomes more of a reality
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Apple is preparing to release more external monitors– with Apple Silicon
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports on upcoming external displays
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German researchers post record-breaking semiconductor speeds using salt water
Using a process that turns water into a circuit switch, unheard of speeds become possible
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Electricity….from wood?
Scientists in Sweden have altered wood's properties to vastly increase the energy transferred as the wood dries.
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Department of Energy announces $2.5 billion loan for battery production
The loan will finance the construction of manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan.
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Stanford has a salty solution to the problem of battery flammability
Stanford has created a new solution to a pressing problem: SAFE
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Book memorializes Apollo missions with breathtaking remastered photos
Andy Saunders has painstakingly remastered images from the Apollo missions in his book, Apollo Remastered
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Researchers create prototype capable of sending and receiving tactile sensations
Though currently limited to texture patterns, researchers are working to add the sensations of heat and cold
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Mind blown: New study upends the understanding of color perception
Have we been doing color space all wrong?
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WATCH: Disney researchers create facial age altering program powered by machine learning
Say hello to FRAN (Face Re-Aging Network)
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MIT battery breakthrough could pave the way to smaller, safer batteries
Pressure and stress can manipulate dendrites harmlessly away from electrodes
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A promising “Polytherapeutic” tinnitus treatment app
A small study had impressive results in tests across three to six months
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FBI issues official alert on counterfeit batteries
The FBI cites global supply chain issues and continuing need for new batteries as contributing to the growing number of counterfeits
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Review: TinySA spectrum analyzer
Pocket-sized device puts RF spectrum visualization in your toolbelt
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LG Display announces world’s first stretchable display
The display is resistant to external impacts, and flexible enough to be stretched, folded, and twisted
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Meta Quest Pro review roundup
While most are impressed, time will tell if the Quest Pro is the future of work-- or just a very expensive gadget.
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IPMX is Interoperability
IPMX is built on SMPTE ST 2110 and is supported by a large base of manufacturers. Critical announcements from some new adopters of IPMX have now been showcased in...
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New technology can transmit the world’s internet traffic in one second
The speed record for data transmission has been obliterated-- and it may signal a more efficient, environmentally-friendly future
