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Read more Adventures in the ancient DNA time machine
This narrative has made him a favorite on television programs like Nova and secured lavish funding from Danish corporations. His ...
Read more Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back.
And there was no way to predict how lifelike the resulting voice would be—often it ended up sounding quite artificial. ...
Read more A woman made her AI voice clone say “arse.” Then she got banned.
“Well, apparently not, because the next day a human banned me!!!!” says Joyce. She says she felt mortified. “I’d just ...
Read more Calligraphy bot | MIT Technology Review
Gloria Zhu ’26 and Lee Liu ’26 set out to make a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. They built its ...
Read more China’s electric vehicle giants are betting big on humanoid robots
According to statistics from Shenzhen New Strategy Media’s Industrial Research Institute, there were over 160 humanoid-robot manufacturers worldwide as of ...
Read more The Download: AI-restored voices, and bot relationships
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world ...
Read more Harnessing cloud and AI to power a sustainable future
Data from a poll conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights in 2024 suggests growing momentum for this dynamic duo: 38% ...
Read more Robots are bringing new life to extinct species
Paleontologists aren’t easily deterred by evolutionary dead ends or a sparse fossil record. But in the last few years, they’ve ...
Read more AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
These measures still offer immediate protection. After all, AI companies can’t use what they can’t obtain, regardless of how courts ...
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