Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...
MacTech

Apple granted patent that involves an user interface for vehicles and robots

Apple has been granted a patent for “systems and methods for generating an interactive user interface.” It involves vehicles, but also other machines, especially those that involve robotics. In the ...
the-decoder

Google Labs turns Stitch into a full AI design platform that converts plain text into user interfaces

Google Labs has turned its design tool Stitch into a full AI-powered software design platform. The tool lets users generate user interfaces from natural language prompts, an approach Google is calling ...
techtimes

UltraSense Brings Ultrasonic Touch Interfaces to AR Glasses and Next Generation Devices at CES

Las Vegas, NV — At CES, UltraSense presented a forward-looking vision for how humans will interact with future devices. Rather than relying on traditional touchscreens or mechanical buttons, ...
Futurism

Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File

It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention text file is still pretty jarring. The odd file was uncovered by an X-formerly-Twitter user who goes by ...
TechSpot

The spam text you ignored might be part of a billion-dollar crime wave

TL;DR: The US is experiencing a surge in scam text messages that federal investigators say has evolved into a coordinated, billion-dollar criminal enterprise with deep ties to China. What began as a ...
IEEE

Will McGugan on Text-Based User Interfaces

Abstract: In episode 669 of Software Engineering Radio, Will McGugan, the CEO and founder of Textualize, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about how to use packages such as Rich and Textual to ...
C&EN

A Cobalt Sulfide-Based Amorphous/Crystalline Heterostructure with Enhanced Interface Charge Polarization for Efficient Hydrogenation of N-Heteroarenes

College of Chemical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, China National & Local United Engineering Research Centre for Chemical Process Simulation and Intensification, Xiangtan ...
TechSpot

Microsoft brings the MS-DOS text editor back from the dead, sort of

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...