Amazon uses kid’s dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake
Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Amazon Amazon is figuring out how to make its Alexa voice assistant deepfake the voice of anyone, dead or alive, with…
Electronic Tattoo Offers Highly Accurate, Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring
A new electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours delivers continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly all available options on the…
13-inch MacBook Pro review: Apple’s M2 is a worthy follow-up to the M1
This is the 2022 13-inch MacBook Pro. Samuel Axon The design is as familiar with the lid open as it is with it closed. Samuel Axon Here’s the bottom. Notice…
Theoretical calculations predicted now-confirmed tetraneutron, an exotic state of matter
Andrey Shirokov, left, of Moscow State University in Russia, who has been a visiting scientist at Iowa State, and James Vary of Iowa State are part of an international team…
Apple Confirms iPad Will No Longer Be Supported as a Home Hub in iOS 16
The iPad will no longer be able to be used as a home hub following the launch of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and the HomePod 16 software this…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
NASA’s InSight Mars lander uses a seismometer to study the inner layers of Mars. Seismic signals from quakes change as they pass through different kinds of materials; seismologists can “read”…
How to Use Google Password Manager On-Device Encryption
Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP (Getty Images) Eventually, Google and other big tech companies want to dispense with passwords entirely, but until that day comes, a Google Password Manager feature called on-device…
Scientists Identify a Possible Source for Red Cap on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon
Southwest Research Institute scientists combined data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modeling to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto’s moon…
Meta and Microsoft team up to create metaverse standards; Apple, Google sit out
Parties interested in turning Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite buzzword into a reality announced on Wednesday that they have formed The Metaverse Standards Forum. Meta is a founding member, naturally,…
Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas | Plastics
Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body. Microplastics are…