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Resemble AI, a San Francisco-based voice artificial intelligence startup, said on Wednesday it had raised $8 million in a funding round led by venture capital firm Javelin Ventures. It added that Comcast Ventures (CMCSA.O) and existing investors Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures also participated in the Series A round. The company said it was using the proceeds to develop further its product to detect if audio is artificially generated, known as a deep fake, with up to 98% accuracy. The
Twitter rival Threads has quickly attracted tens of millions of users, even though the app is just a day old. Combining Twitter-style text conversations with Instagram’s design, the service is the biggest challenge to the Elon Musk-owned Twitter. On Wednesday, the app went live on Apple and Android app stores at 2300 GMT in around 100 countries. It has garnered praise from celebrities and other influential users, including chef Gordon Ramsay, rapper Shakira, and Airbnb. Users can upload pictures and
Electric car giant Tesla is set to realize fully autonomous vehicles “later this year,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. The billionaire’s latest forecast for the long-anticipated milestone is still a few years away, even though the company already has a semi-autonomous system called Autopilot in its cars. The system allows drivers to cruise highways and maneuver city streets without having their hands on the steering wheel or watching the road. However, the driver must keep their eyes on the road
Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will take center stage at a conference organized by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland this week to showcase their potential to help it reach increasingly improbable global goals. Set in 2015, the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) aim to improve human life and the planet by 2030including eradicating poverty, reducing hunger, ensuring access to education, and ending discrimination against women and girls. The SDGs are integrated-they recognize that achieving one goal depends
Taiwan’s Foxconn, a major iPhone assembler for Apple Inc (AAPL.O), said on Wednesday that second-quarter revenue dropped 14% year-on-year, but the outlook for the third quarter was brighter ahead of the peak shopping season at the end of the year. The world’s largest contract electronics maker, formally called Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd and known globally as Foxconn, said revenue in the April-June period reached T$1.3 trillion ($41.76 billion), in line with its expectations. The company mainly produces upstream
This weekend, thousands of Twitter users were met with a panic-inducing message: “Rate limit exceeded.” The error means the user’s account has reached its limits for reading tweets on the platform. Twitter has imposed temporary limits to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” CEO and owner Elon Musk explained in a tweet Saturday. He says he has since increased the limits twice, with verified accounts now able to read 6,000 tweets daily, while unverified and new accounts
South Korea is a manufacturing powerhouse for items ranging from chips and displays to automobiles, but the country’s companies have been feeling a growing threat from rivals in China. Last month, prosecutors said a former Samsung Electronics executive was arrested on suspicion of stealing company technology for a copycat chip factory in China, jeopardizing national economic security. Now, Samsung has taken another shot at the Chinese rival, filing a lawsuit against BOE Technology for allegedly infringing five of its patents
The parent company of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook is preparing to release a text-based conversation app that rivals Twitter. The app, dubbed Threads, will allow users to follow the accounts they currently follow on Instagram and keep the same username while using the new app, according to a listing on Apple’s App Store on Thursday (July 6). The listing also includes photos showing a dashboard that looks similar to Twitter. Tech analysts see the app as a formidable challenger to
Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon’s (AMZN.O) retail and cloud services, Apple’s (AAPL.O) devices and software, and Meta Platforms’ (META.O) generative artificial intelligence software all have notified the European Commission that they qualify as gatekeepers under new EU tech rules, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Tuesday. The companies must now comply with new restrictions designed to curb their power. The rules, which come into force in May 2023, will prevent them from giving their services a higher ranking on their
There’s a lot of hype around the “next generation” of consumer technology, with companies like Apple and Google working hard to put screens on our faces. But a Silicon Valley startup with a very different idea has raised significant money and is poised to release its first product. Humane, a startup founded by ex-Apple execs, has kept its work under wraps since it launched in 2018. Still, it’s now revealing that the gadget it’s developing is screenless, projected display devices