Amazon has shown off an experimental feature for its digital assistant Alexa that uses AI to mimic the voices of users’ dead relatives. The company hasn’t said whether the feature will ever be available to customers. Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of users’ dead relatives. The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a
The company behind PUBG shows off its ‘hyper-realistic’ virtual human
Krafton, the company behind the PUBG franchise, has unveiled a virtual human named Ana, which it says will be a big part of its Web3 presence moving forward. Krafton is best-known for games like PUBG and the upcoming Callisto Protocol — but today, it’s showing off something very different. The company is teasing a “virtual human” named Ana, which it says will “help establish” its Web3
Netflix shows off Sonic Prime and an impressive lineup of indie games
During Netflix’s Geeked Week, the streaming platformer debuted a number of its gaming offerings, including new game-based shows and additions to its growing roster of gaming titles. This week, Netflix unleashed a battery of announcements as a part of its Geeked Week. Contained within the flurry of reveals of The Sandman, The Umbrella Academy season 3, One Piece, and more was a handful of announcements about the platform’s
Google tool shows what’s on the surface of the Earth in real time
Google and the World Resources Institute created Dynamic World, a near real-time land cover dataset built through deep learning to show what’s on the surface of the planet. A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called Dynamic World, uses deep learning and satellite imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that
Entergalactic’s first trailer shows off a trippy musical ride
Netflix released the first trailer for Entergalactic at Geeked Week, showing a new animated series from the mind of Kid Cudi, which premieres this fall. The first-look trailer for Entergalactic — a musical animated series from Kid Cudi and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris — is brief, but it’s bursting with style and life. The series follows a young artist named Jabari (voiced by Cudi) and has a
Strange World’s first trailer shows off a bizarre, beautiful sci-fi universe
Disney has released the first trailer for Strange World, an original animated sci-fi feature starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which premieres on November 23rd. The first trailer for Strange World, the next animated feature from Disney, looks like a pulp paperback novel cover brought to life. It’s as beautiful as it is strange, with gooey aliens, walking mountains, and lots more sci-fi oddities. Disney
The upcoming Sonos Sub Mini subwoofer has passed through the FCC, confirming the product’s cylindrical design. Sonos is likely to officially announce the Sub Mini in the coming weeks. Even before its latest soundbar hits store shelves, Sonos is moving closer to the release of its next product — and it’s an eagerly anticipated one. As noted by Redditors and Protocol’s Janko Roettgers, the upcoming Sonos Sub Mini subwoofer
Uvalde shows why online threats need to be taken more seriously
The Uvalde shooter was repeatedly reported for making threats online, without repercussion, showing the shortcomings and necessity for better moderation on Yubo and other platforms. A week ago today, an 18-year-old man walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and committed the latest in our nation’s never-ending series of senseless murders. And in the aftermath of that horror — 19 children dead, two teachers dead,
The Murena One shows exactly how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone
Murena’s new phone runs /e/OS and can run most Android apps, but the company tries hard to minimize the amount of data it collects and sends to other companies. An Android phone without Google. No Google apps, no Google Play Services, no peppy Google Assistant. No Google surveillance and data snooping, no incessant ad targeting, no feeling like privacy is a pointless exercise. Some companies, like Huawei,
Federal appeals court pauses FDA ban on Juul’s e-cigarettes
A court has ruled that Juul can keep selling its products while the company prepares an emergency motion to stay the FDA’s recent order preventing sales of the Juul device and Juul pods. Juul can continue selling its e-cigarettes despite the Food and Drug Administration ordering a ban Thursday, according to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (via TechCrunch). In its order, the court says it’s issuing the
Snoop Dogg and Eminem’s Bored Ape music video is here to try and sell us on tokens
To close out the ApeFest 2022 event, Snoop Dogg and Eminem present a new song and video, which features animations with their associated Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT characters, called From The D 2 The LBC. The last couple of weeks have had a lot of bad news for some in the “web3” space, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at announcements in and around the recently-ended NFT.NYC and ApeFest 2022 events. The Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) annual