Alexa might soon be able to speak with the voice of a dead loved one Alexa has been able to speak with celebrity voices for a while in the US and in other countries now offers a choice of male or female voices. But what if you could get Alexa to speak to you using a friend or relative’s voice? During a presentation on AI at itsre:MARS conference, Amazon demonstrated exactly this capability, with head scientist for Alexa AI, Rohit Prasad saying that the “human attributes of empathy and affect are key for building trust… which have become more important in these times of the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost loved someone we love”....

Alexa might soon be able to speak with the voice of a dead loved one Alexa has been able to speak with celebrity voices for a while in the US and in other countries now offers a choice of male or female voices. But what if you could get Alexa to speak to you using a friend or relative’s voice? During a presentation on AI at itsre:MARS conference, Amazon demonstrated exactly this capability, with head scientist for Alexa AI, Rohit Prasad saying that the “human attributes of empathy and affect are key for building trust… which have become more important in these times of the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost loved someone we love”....

AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Everything we know so far AMD is on a roll. The US chipmaker continues to eat into Intel’s CPU market share, hitting a record 25% by the end of 2021. This progress has been driven by the strong performance of its Ryzen processors, which took a big leap forward with theRyzen 5000 Series. 2022’sRyzen 6000 Seriesonly includes laptop CPUs, but AMD has already confirmed that its successor – theRyzen 7000 Series– will also feature desktop processors....

AMD Ryzen 8000 Series: Everything we know so far AMD is on a roll. The US chipmaker continues to eat into Intel’s CPU market share, hitting a record 25% by the end of 2021. This progress has been driven by the strong performance of its Ryzen processors, which took a big leap forward with theRyzen 5000 Series. 2022’sRyzen 6000 Seriesonly includes laptop CPUs, but AMD has already confirmed that its successor – theRyzen 7000 Series– will also feature desktop processors....

Are you a giraffe or a dolphin? Fitbit’s new Sleep Profile will tell you Fitbit is launching a new feature for its paid Premium service called Sleep Profile that builds on the basic sleep tracking offered by current Fitbit trackers. The feature, which wasannounced in a blog postby Fitbit’s parent company Google, will assign you one of six cartoon animals to help you understand what kind of sleeper you are....