Best Kindle (2022): Which Amazon Ebook Reader Should You Buy?
Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up—and which one might be right for you.
A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas
A spacecraft called SWOT will image most of the planet every 21 days to track flooding, drought, and many other water woes.
Digital Eternity Is Just Around the Corner
These past few years have been visceral reminders of our mortality. But new technologies can offer a way for us and our loved ones to live on.
Moog’s New Theramin Etherwave Still Makes Far-Out Sounds
This electromagnetic instrument is nearly a hundred years old but will still bring a smile to anyone’s face.
Yes, Android Phones Can Use Apple’s MagSafe Too. Here’s How
If you’ve got a high-end Samsung or Google Pixel phone, you can use magnetic cases to get in on the accessory fun.
New robot does ‘the worm’ when temperature changes
A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings ‘a kind of intelligence’ to the field of soft robotics.
America’s Game: What this partnership means to Palantir
America’s Game On Saturday, December 10th, the Black Knights and the Midshipmen took to the field for 123rd time in the annual Army-Navy Football Game, presented by USAA. A time-honored tradition, the game marks a moment of friendly competition between the two services; a beloved American past-time played by those united in their dedication to …
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Call Center Modernization with AI
Picture this: A traveler sets off on a camping trip. She decides to extend her RV rental halfway through her trip, so she calls customer service for assistance, but finds herself waiting minutes, then what feels like hours. When she finally does get a hold of somebody, her call is redirected. More waiting follows. Suddenly …
Who Said What? Recorder’s On-device Solution for Labeling Speakers
Posted by Quan Wang, Senior Staff Software Engineer, and Fan Zhang, Staff Software Engineer, Google In 2019 we launched Recorder, an audio recording app for Pixel phones that helps users create, manage, and edit audio recordings. It leverages recent developments in on-device machine learning to transcribe speech, recognize audio events, suggest tags for titles, and …
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Automatically identify languages in multi-lingual audio using Amazon Transcribe
If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio files can contain different languages. Participants may be speaking entirely different languages or may switch between languages. Consider a customer service call to report a problem in an area with a substantial multi-lingual population. Although the conversation could begin …
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