ElevenLabs, a startup that makes AI tools for audio applications, is being approached by existing and new investors about a new round, which could value the company as highly as $3 billion, TechCrunch has learned. The two-year-old company specializes in making AI tools to generate synthetic voices for audiobook narrations, and for real-time video dubbing … Read more
What you need to know YouTube detailed what’s coming up for Shorts, beginning with an option to record three-minute-long videos. Shorts will soon display a “template” icon, so creators can quickly hop on the latest trends with their unique touch. Other Shorts updates include customization for the Home feed, community engagement, and Veo’s AI assistance … Read more
Well-established in the smart ring arena, Oura consistently offers a refined user experience and an attractive device. The newest model, the Oura Ring 4, builds on the success of its predecessor with key hardware and software updates. It’s more comfortable, durable, and accurate than ever. However, while Oura toiled away to bring the new generation … Read more
fjo3 shares a report from the BBC: They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates — all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single … Read more
This Reddit comment posted to the CentOS subreddit is typical. An admin noticed that two servers were infected with a cryptocurrency hijacker with the names perfcc and perfctl. The admin wanted help investigating the cause. “I only became aware of the malware because my monitoring setup alerted me to 100% CPU utilization,” the admin wrote … Read more
Two Maryland residents who defrauded Apple out of 6,000 iPhones worth over $2.5 million were sentenced to prison today, according to the United States Department of Justice. The duo devised a repair scheme where they sent in counterfeit iPhones in order to get genuine iPhones in exchange. Chinese nationals Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue will … Read more
Tesla is fixing an issue with the rearview mirror on 27,000 Cybertrucks. A recall report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that affected vehicles include those manufactured between November 13, 2023 and September 14, 2024, suggesting that pretty much all of the Cybertrucks on the road require the fix. The notice … Read more
OneNote is journal-creating software designed by Microsoft to be a space where you can jot down ideas, conduct research, and create a highly interactive canvas-style map of “pieces” that will help you organize all those pieces. Here’s how I use it with my research materials, and how you can too. I have used OneNote through … Read more
In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at the CPU generation by generation, you see incremental improvements,” says Timo Valtonen, CEO and co-founder of Finland-based Flow Computing. Valtonen’s goal is to put CPUs back in their rightful, ‘central’ role. In order to do … Read more
Getty Images Finding the best gate for an aircraft is a surprisingly difficult task Next time you’re running at full tilt towards your airport gate, spare a thought for the airline staff who made sure that that gate was actually available. Gate allocation is a surprisingly complex task. “With 15 gates and 10 airplanes, there … Read more