AI & RoboticsNews

Meta AI announces first AI-powered speech translation system for an unwritten language

October 20, 2022
Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Artificial speech translation is a rapidly emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Initially created to aid communication among people who speak different languages, this speech-to-speech translation technology (S2ST) has found its way into several domains.  For…
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GamingNews

Microsoft wants to build an Xbox-branded mobile game store

October 20, 2022
Microsoft wants to bring a taste of Xbox game shopping to your phone. As The Verge explains, a company filing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed plans to build a “next generation” Xbox store that’s available on mobile…
AI & RoboticsNews

Meta's AI translator can interpret unwritten languages

October 20, 2022
Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine learning translation systems, as they typically need to convert verbal speech to…
MobileNews

Android 13 Go Edition brings the Material You look to entry-level phones

October 20, 2022
Google’s Material You design language has been available since Android 12, but you wouldn’t know it if you bought an entry Go Edition phone stuck with the old look. Thankfully, Google is finally bringing that aesthetic to lower-cost handset. The newly announced Android 13 Go Edition brings Material You to these basic devices for the first time, giving you color themes that reflect your…
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MobileNews

Google's iOS 16 lock screen widgets are now available

October 20, 2022
Google’s iOS 16 lock screen widgets are officially available. As outlined in September, the widgets give you at-a-glance info and shortcuts for some of the company’s core apps. Gmail can show your new message counts, while Maps can either provide a link to…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Autonomy’s new partnership makes EV driving more obtainable for drivers with little to no credit history

October 19, 2022
The largest US-based EV subscription service, Autonomy, announced Wednesday it will be teaming up with Nova Credit to make it easier for customers with little to no credit to qualify to drive an electric vehicle. Autonomy was rebranded earlier this year with the mission of giving people the financial flexibility to drive an electric vehicle without committing to the long-term costs of…
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BMW expands US EV and battery manufacturing footprint with new $1.7B investment

October 19, 2022
In the latest announcement from an automaker to expand electric vehicle manufacturing in the US, BMW released Wednesday it will invest $1.7 billion in its US EV operations to boost output. After setting a new US delivery record in the third quarter with 4,337 EVs delivered, BMW plans to accelerate the pace even further. The US just hit 6% EV market share in the third quarter as it progresses…
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