The Rise of Hyper-Realistic AI Voices You say to your Smart speaker, something like give me weather and it responds to you like a real person with a tone that almost makes you think there was someone on the other end listening. The quality of AI-generated speech has advanced to the level where digital assistants Read details…
A Silent Arctic Alarm Just think of a vault that has been frozen, and has been locked up, a thousand years, and somebody opens it, and lets it out, and it is worse than anybody ever thought. This is precisely what is occurring in Siberia, to which the permafrost is melting, releasing vats of methane, Read details…
The Texas Dairy Worker Case: A Wake-Up Call? A worker in a dairy farm in Texas developed the H5N1 bird flu in April, 2024, making the second human case in the U.S. in history. What’s alarming? This strain previously limited to poultry has now jumped to cows, seals and even the cats in households. The Read details…
Picture the era when you will not be coming out with a general political opinion after reading newspapers, listening to arguments, and discussing political views with friends but, instead, flicking through a TikTok video that would appear between two dance challenges. That is not hypothetical any more. Political advertising on social media has become the Read details…
In the new age, developers drive software development, and AI no longer merely provides automated tests or snippet recommendations. It means writing all the functions, structuring the modules and even forecasting architectural issues. I witnessed the process firsthand as a technical consultant involved in it. To be fair, I was also watching this development with Read details…