Published on: 2025-06-05 19:20:36
Today you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. YouTube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. This week, the story of our attempts to make the spoken visible, the magicians who tried and the crazy spell that finally did it. EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Simon Adler Produced by Simon Adler Original music from Simon Adler S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 14:00:59
Instacart on Wednesday appointed business chief Chris Rogers as its new CEO, less than a month after OpenAI announced CEO Fidji Simo as its new head of applications. Shares were flat. Rogers, who joined Instacart in 2019, will start Aug. 15 and join the board of directors. Simo will retain her chair position to "smooth the transition," the company said. "Over the last four years, we've transformed Instacart into a growing, profitable, leading technology platform that's helping reshape the gro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 12:43:54
On a clear spring day, I make my way to the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. It’s located in a part of the university campus which has a whiff of Hogwarts about it, with a maze of courtyards, the entrance hiding somewhere within. The Hunterian is the oldest public museum in Scotland, more cabinet of curiosities than modern scientific institution. Roman artefacts, feathered Maori cloaks and fossils sit side by side in this museum, which reminds me of a church with its pointy gable and simple rosette
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 23:00:00
Astar Network, a gateway to take blockchain projects to Japan and more, announced a strategic investment from Animoca Brands to accelerate the growth of Web3 entertainment. Animoca Brands wants to deliver digital property rights to consumers with the aim of helping to establish the open metaverse and its associated network effects. Animoca Brands has investments in over 540 companies, which is considered one of the broadest investment portfolios in the Web3 industry. Astar and Animoca Brands w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 12:37:40
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a speech during the Global Markets Conference, ahead of the Choose France summit, in Paris, on May 15, 2025. JPMorgan Chase is finally allowing clients to buy bitcoin . But CEO Jamie Dimon is still a skeptic. "We are going to allow you to buy it," Dimon said at the bank's annual investor day on Monday. "We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients." The decision marks a notable step for the largest U.S. bank, particular
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 07:25:24
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last night, OpenAI published a blog post on its official website authored by CEO and co-founder Sam Altman announcing a major new hire: Fidji Simo, currently CEO and Chair at grocery delivery company Instacart, will join OpenAI as CEO of Applications, a newly created executive position. Simo will step into her new role at OpenAI later in 2025 following a transition per
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 08:02:45
The antitrust trial targeting Google's search business is heading into the home stretch, and the outcome could forever alter Google—and the web itself. The company is scrambling to protect its search empire, but perhaps market forces could pull the rug out from under Google before the government can. Apple SVP of Services Eddie Cue suggested in his testimony on Wednesday that Google's search traffic might be falling. Not so fast, says Google. In an unusual move, Google issued a statement late i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 12:45:20
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to “focus on research, compute, and safety.” Simo has served as an OpenAI board member since last year, but she won’t leave Instacart right aw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 04:39:33
Medical device company Masimo Corporation warns that a cyberattack is impacting production operations and causing delays in fulfilling customers' orders. Masimo Corporation is a California-based medical technology and consumer electronics maker. It's best known for its noninvasive patient monitoring products like pulse oximeters, brain function monitors, hemodynamic monitoring systems, capnography and gas monitoring solutions, and remote patient monitoring platforms. The company has a reported
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 14:20:57
is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Samsung subsidiary Harman has agreed to acquire the audio business division of Masimo, taking ownership of audio brands like Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, and Polk Audio. The $350 million deal brings them under the same roof as JBL, Harman Kardon, Arcam, AKG, Mark Levinson, and Revel, which Samsung acquired back in 2016 with its $8 billion acqui
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-01 08:31:30
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn’t taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad. Just days after releasing its new, state-of-the-art open source Qwen3 large reasoning model family, Alibaba’s Qwen team today released Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a lightweight version of its preceding multimodal model architecture designed to run on consumer-
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 11:46:38
We are constantly perceiving the world around us. As we do, we make decisions on how to move our bodies. The brain’s ability to process all the required sensory and motor information for this is no small feat. And one of neuroscience’s most significant questions is how exactly our brains integrate these two information sources as efficiently as they do. The newly launched Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) will unite leading scientists across neuroscience and machine learni
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 00:15:37
In an interview with Variety, writer Beau Willimon discussed the fan-favorite properties he’s currently a part of: he’s an executive producer on Apple TV+’s Severance and wrote episodes for both seasons of Andor. In the chat with the trade he likened writing on Star Wars to “being a session musician on someone’s album.” His collaboration with Andor creator Tony Gilroy began on the Willimon-created Netflix series House of Cards, with Gilroy coming aboard as a consulting producer. “When he was d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 00:06:23
Baltimore City Public Schools notified tens of thousands of employees and students of a data breach following an incident in February when unknown attackers hacked into its network. Established in 1829, the public school district provides primary and secondary education to 76,841 enrolled students through 164 schools and programs. "On February 13, 2025, Baltimore City Public Schools experienced a cybersecurity incident affecting certain IT systems within our network. We promptly notified law
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 00:23:38
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai researchers have developed a novel nutritional formula, mBiota Elemental, a palatable elemental diet (PED) that reduces the abundance of key gut microbiome taxa and improves symptoms in patients with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and intestinal methanogen overgro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 00:05:37
As much as we wish it weren't so, the heads of big banks like JPMorgan get paid the big bucks for a reason — and the latest missive from Jamie Dimon, the institution's CEO and chair, is a perfect exemplar. Clocking in at a whopping 57 pages without footnotes, Dimon's annual investor letter pulled no punches when pillorying everyone's least favorite part of work. "Kill meetings," the JPMorgan chair wrote. "But when they do happen, they have to start on time and end on time — and someone's got t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 08:00:31
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. I'll bet you don't spend a ton of time thinking about Deimos, the smaller of the two Martian moons, which is named after the Ancient Greek
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 02:46:14
We present Liquid, an auto-regressive generation paradigm that seamlessly integrates visual comprehension and generation by tokenizing images into discrete codes and learning these code embeddings alongside text tokens within a shared feature space for both vision and language. Unlike previous multimodal large language model (MLLM), Liquid achieves this integration using a single large language model (LLM), eliminating the need for external pretrained visual embeddings such as CLIP. For the firs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 07:46:14
We present Liquid, an auto-regressive generation paradigm that seamlessly integrates visual comprehension and generation by tokenizing images into discrete codes and learning these code embeddings alongside text tokens within a shared feature space for both vision and language. Unlike previous multimodal large language model (MLLM), Liquid achieves this integration using a single large language model (LLM), eliminating the need for external pretrained visual embeddings such as CLIP. For the firs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 16:52:03
How do you get talented engineers to work for a startup in a mundane field at a time when more exciting companies are paying well and hiring aggressively? Here’s an answer from one insurance startup out of Poland called Ominimo: make pay competitive, yes, but more importantly, give those engineers the license to apply their talent and reinvent how the field works. Launching bootstrapped just 12 months ago, Ominomo believes it’s found a different and better approach to understanding and pricing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 08:00:13
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)is shutting down after more than 20 years of hosting its annual challenge for writers. In a video and an email sent to community members, the nonprofit organization explains that it can no longer continue “after years of financial struggles.” Before officially becoming a nonprofit in 2006, NaNoWriMo started o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 00:52:29
Segway The robot mower market is growing almost as fast as your lawn in the spring -- and a new player just entered. Segway has launched a new Navimow X3 Series of robot mowers designed for residential and commercial applications. This new X3 Series can cover up to 2.5 acres, with four variants ranging from 0.4 to 2.5 acres. The robots are built for efficiency, capable of covering up to 1.25 acres in 24 hours. They support ultra-fast charging and can cover up to 0.3 acres on one charge. Also:
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 23:30:08
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar. These moments seem to ripple outward, lapping up against the present in unexpected ways. Lately, I have been deeply dispirited by the current attack on academia here in the US — the deportation of graduate students and researchers, the dismantling of a huge range of important projects via funding cuts to NIH and elsewhere. And I’ve been reflecting on one of these moments of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 11:52:01
A quarter century after its inception — and less than a year after its "full-throated" defense of artificial intelligence in writing — the nonprofit behind the annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge is closing its doors. Kilby Blades, a romance author serving as NaNoWriMo's interim executive director, announced in a video and in emails posted to social media that the nonprofit, which challenged participants to crank out a draft for a novel every November, would be shuttering
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 20:30:16
Segway’s Navimow X3 series is now available to buy in the US, adding to the limited number of robot lawnmowers capable of tackling larger yards. Joining the more affordable Navimow i series that launched in March 2024, the Navimow X3 has several models, ranging from the $2,299 X315 which can cover 0.4 acres, to the $4,999 X390 capable of mowing up to 2.5 acres. The mower can cover 1.25 acres in 24 hours, which Segway says is twice as fast as the industry average. Users can expect it to cover ar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 00:15:15
NaNoWriMo, the non-profit organization that grew out of the annual tradition National Novel Writing Month, had a solid 25-year run encouraging writers to speedrun the novel writing process, but it has come to an end. On Monday, the organization announced that it would cease operations due to ongoing financial issues, as well as some very public drama that has played out in recent years. In an email to community members (and shared on Reddit), the organization was pretty thorough in its reasonin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 20:32:38
NaNoWriMo, a twenty-five-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down. NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is an annual challenge for writers to complete a rough draft of a novel during the month of November. After starting as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999, the project grew into a self-described “internet-famous” writing challenge with hundreds of thousands of participants over more than two decades. The orga
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 04:30:00
Apple’s software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024, but there's a lot under the hood that adds to the steady stream of intriguing customizations and lesser-known features from the last few years. Several helpful settings are turned off by default, and it's not immediately obvious how to switch off some annoying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 23:00:00
Yoko Shimomura, known for composing many iconic video game music scores, will be honored with a BAFTA Fellowship. Her musical works include the Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy XV and Xenoblade Chronicles. The Fellowship, arts charity’s highest honour, will be presented at the 21st BAFTA Games Awards on April 8, streaming live on Twitch and YouTube from 11 a.m. Pacific time. Shimomura is a Japanese composer and pianist. She will be recognized for her contribution to the games industry. Th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-26 00:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hakimo announced today it has secured $10.5 million in Series A funding to expand its autonomous security monitoring platform. The Menlo Park-based AI security startup’s round was led by Vertex Ventures and Zigg Capital, with participation from RXR Arden Digital Ventures and existing investors Defy.vc and Gokul Rajaram, bringing the company’s total funding to $20.5 mill
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