The news: Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool which labels whether pictures have been generated with AI. The tool, called SynthID, will allow users to generate images using Google’s AI... Read more »

Both of the women can communicate without an implant. The first, Pat Bennett, who has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, uses a computer to type. The second, Ann Johnson, who... Read more »

The participant in the first study, Pat Bennett, lost her ability to speak as a result of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a devastating illness that affects all the nerves... Read more »

Brain implants helped create a digital avatar of a stroke survivor’s face The news: A woman who lost her ability to speak after a stroke 18 years ago was able to replicate... Read more »

But a person can only eat so much fast food—if my journey had been much longer and I needed to stop more than once, the pit stop might not have felt quite... Read more »

Speech using these interfaces isn’t seamless. It’s still slower than normal speaking, and while an error rate of 23% or 24% is far better than previous results, it’s still not great. In... Read more »

To increase a battery’s total capacity, these anodes can be made with thicker layers of material, meaning there will be lots of space for ions to slot into. However, in batteries with... Read more »

2 Meta released an AI model that can translate a ton of languagesThese sorts of tools are improving at a dizzying pace. (TechCrunch)+ Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for... Read more »

In August 1983, exactly 40 years ago, a Chinese engineer named Wang Yongmin developed the first popular way to input Chinese characters into a computer: Wubi. He did it by breaking down... Read more »