An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: OpenAI said on Friday it’s allowed a small number of businesses to test a new tool that can recreate a person’s voice from just a 15-second recording. The company said it is taking “a cautious and informed approach” to releasing the program,Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — If content creators and corporate executives made TikTok videos about the platform’s possible U.S. demise, disco diva Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” could supply the soundtrack. Sure, businesses that built strategies around TikTok and promote products there would prefer not to seek eyeballs on another app.Continue Reading
T-CREATE, the creative brand from TEAMGROUP, has officially launched its previously announced CinemaPr product series, designed to cater to the needs of professionals in the filming industry. The CinemaPr series features a logo inspired by pixels, consisting of nine squares with a red square in the upper right corner, representingContinue Reading
E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Poland’s competition and consumer protection watchdog has fined Amazon’s European subsidiary around $8 million (31.9 million Zlotys) for “dark patterns” that messed around internet shoppers.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
PLUS: Dodging rats the size of cats while repairing chewed-through cabling On Call: Dirt File It’s a holiday Friday in much of the Reg-reading world so On Call is departing from its usual format of a single story to instead bring you more tales from our Dirt File: your storiesContinue Reading
It’s been a little while since the last #UbuntuintheWild spot but this one feels like a fitting return given it’s quite literally in the wild! The wilds of the Eastern Himalayan forests, in fact. Nature documentary Nocturnes, directed and produced by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan, follows scientists as theyContinue Reading
FreeWire Technologies, a provider of battery-integrated EV charging stations and energy management solutions, has announced a new program that allows businesses to offer and collect payments from EV charging, while FreeWire owns and operates the equipment. The Accelerate program will offer a zero-risk option for charging hosts. FreeWire manages upfrontContinue Reading
Velotric has been on a winning streak lately, spending the last year or more rolling out a series of impressive new reasonably-priced electric bike models with features and performance that handily beat the competition in several key categories. And by all indications, the company has no plans to slow down.Continue Reading
Though most companies have settled on return-to-office (RTO) policies now that COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency, many continue to adjust their practices, often to the detriment of their workforce. Several workforce surveys over the past three months have revealed that employees do not view mandated RTOContinue Reading
The marketing hype surrounding AI broadly — and generative AI (genAI) more specifically — is becoming tiresome. You can’t open an article or watch a news video without running into at least a reference to it. We may be approaching the point at which we stop breathlessly extolling its virtuesContinue Reading
Lyle Smith reports via StorageReview.com: Proxmox has introduced a new import wizard for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), aiming to simplify the migration process for importing VMware ESXi VMs. This new feature comes at an important time in the industry, as it aims to ease the transition for these organizations lookingContinue Reading
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions. The Shenzhen-based company reported a net profit of 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), helped by strong sales and anContinue Reading
When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one died, either on the ship or the highway above. The bridge’s supports were protected by a fendering system of concrete and other materials that was installed to absorb such strikes.Continue Reading