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Trish Vickers of Dorset, England, decided to write a novel. Though blind, she preferred to work the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper, with her son dropping in weekly to type up the results. On one visit, though, < … Read More → "Forensic experts recover novel written by blind woman with a pen that had run out of ink"

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In an effort to inject some life in the automated voices that come out of our apps, AI startup Lyrebird has developed a voice-imitation algorithm that can mimic any person’s voice, and read any text with a predefined emotion or intonation. Incredibly, it can do this after analyzing just a few dozen seconds of pre-recorded audio. In an effort to promote its new tool, Lyrebird produced several … Read More → "Artificially intelligent speech generator can fake anyone’s voice"

It used to be that security systems could only protect what was right in front of them.</ … Read More → "The security system that sees through walls"

Picking apples may seem like a fun weekend activity, but it’s actually backbreaking manual labor. Abundant Robotics wants to help agricultural growers shoulder this task and today announced funding of $10 million, led … Read More → "Abundant Robotics raises $10 million to commercialize its apple-picking robot"

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