Author: Hunter

​Artificial intelligence has made significant strides in recent years, yet integrating real-time speech interaction with visual content remains a complex challenge. Traditional systems often rely on separate components for voice activity detection, speech recognition, textual dialogue, and text-to-speech synthesis. This segmented approach can introduce delays and may not capture the nuances of human conversation, such… Read more

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Lyft will let users in Atlanta catch robotaxi rides starting this summer, as reported by NBC News. “Atlanta riders will have the opportunity to be matched with a fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans equipped with May Mobility’s autonomous technology, a deployment that Lyft and May Mobility aim to scale over time across multiple markets,”… Read more

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US Cellular as potential… Read more

Aside from cutscenes, most of Mythic Quest takes place in the real world. But Apple’s upcoming spinoff series Side Quest will give us a much better look at what the game looks like from within. While some of Side Quest’s four episodes focus on people’s lives outside of and away from Mythic Quest, the final… Read more

On March 18th, Chetan Nayak, a physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum team, presented new data on the company’s quantum computing chip at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. It was meant to calm a raging debate among physicists, but researchers remain skeptical of the results. “I never felt like there would be… Read more

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. But the world shifted—applications moved to the cloud, workers became mobile, and cybercriminals got more creative. Meanwhile, many IT departments are stuck in the past, clinging… Read more

Congress’ least favorite law is once against facing an existential challenge by bipartisan opponents.  Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, are planning to reintroduce a bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years. Repealing the bill, first reported by The Information,… Read more

Meta has aggressively pushed to discredit and silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, her memoir about working at the company as a policy director. Now, she’s fighting back.  Attorneys for Wynn-Williams this week filed an emergency motion seeking to dismiss the gag order that Meta won via an arbitrator. A copy of her… Read more

Today marks the end of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not for the content of the presentations than for the sheer spectacle of the show. GTC has come a long way since Nvidia held the first show back in… Read more