Microsoft’s neural voice tool for people with speech disabilities arrives later this year

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At its 14th Ability summit, which kicks off today, Microsoft is highlighting developments and collaborations across its portfolio of assistive products. Much of that is around Azure AI, including features announced yesterday like AI-powered audio descriptions and the Azure AI studio that better enables developers with disabilities to create machine-learning applications. It also showed off new

Microsoft confirms March 'Surface' event: Will we see Surface Pro 10, Surface Laptop 6?

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Microsoft announced that it is hosting a late March event that will delve into new developments with Copilot, Windows, and the Surface laptop family.

Zooming in on consumer laptops, Microsoft is reportedly planning on unleashing two models: the Surface Pro 10 and the Surface Laptop 6.

When is the Microsoft March Surface event?

Microsoft's March Surface event is on March 21.

As mentioned, Microsoft is

Video appears to show Ukraine's exploding naval drones chasing after a Russian warship shooting desperately at them in the dark

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Screengrab from footage of the attack with naval drones on the patrol ship Sergey Kotov of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on March 5, 2024.

Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

  • A newly surfaced video shows what appears to be a Russian ship attempting to flee from a group of Ukrainian sea drones.
  • In the footage, crew members appear to be trying to shoot the drones with

Russia is not winning the war because Moscow has mismanaged its own economy, professors say

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Russia is losing a huge amount of human capital as war drags on, one think-tank chair warns.

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  • Russia's self-inflicted economic problems mean it can't be said that Moscow is winning its war. 
  • Two UC Berkley economists note that Russia's problems are a result of its own mismanagement. 
  • Meanwhile, Ukraine's prospects are dependent on further aid from the West. 

It's

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Reddit introduces an AI-powered tool that will detect online harassment

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Reddit has introduced an AI-powered safety filter that will help sift out posts that contain harassing or other objectionable content.

The "harassment filter" — quietly added to the platform's support page last week and detected by Android Authority — uses a Large Language Model (LLM) "trained on moderator actions and content removed by Reddit’s internal tools and enforcement teams," Reddit

The Tesla Model S shook the industry, but its echo is fading

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The consumer electronics industry has changed radically over the past two decades. AR/VR devices have come and gone and come again, smartphones have grown from filling our pockets to dominating our lives, and the tendrils of connected services now touch everything we touch.

Yet, for me, the most exciting to watch has been the development of technology that moves us. I mean that literally: cars and

I was born in Athens but spent 11 years living in London. Now that I'm back in Greece, my quality of life is much better.

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I've been back in Athens for almost three years.

Fani Mari

  • I was born in Athens, Greece, and I moved to London at 17 to go to university.
  • I stayed there for over a decade, but I was homesick, and I eventually moved back to Greece.
  • There are many differences between the cities I've called home, but Athens is the winner for now.

When I was 17, I moved from Athens to London for university and stayed there

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