If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands. The Seattle tech giant today launched Brand Voices, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly, Amazon’s cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech, that pairs customers with Amazon engineers to build AI-generated voices representing certain personas.
As Amazon…
U.S. interviews iOS app makers in Apple antitrust investigation
February 4, 2020
(Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its investigation into Apple, one of the four big tech companies being probed for alleged anti-competitive behavior, according one of the developers and another person familiar with the…
Apple has updated its iCloud.com website with proper mobile sites for iOS and Android, making it easier to access Apple services like Notes, Photos, Reminders, and Find My iPhone from a web browser on a mobile phone, as spotted by AppleInsider.
The site has been accessible…
Earlier this year, Samsung announced two new smartphones that aren’t quite flagships, but they’re very close. The Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite have since launched in a handful of markets and now, they’re launching in Spain.
To recap, the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite are stripped-down versions of the 2019 flagships, but with different designs and still flagship-tier specs. The…
Paradox Interactive announced today that it has released Stellaris: Galaxy Command in a soft launch for Android and iOS devices. This follows an initial launch in October that Paradox quickly pulled once it was discovered that the game included stolen artwork.
Galaxy Command…
Nvidia’s game-streaming service GeForce Now launches today on multiple platforms, but by the year’s end, it will be available on Chromebooks and more Android TV devices, too.
At launch, Nvidia GeForce Now supports Windows and Mac computers and Android smartphones as…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day and two years after it debuted on iOS, the interactive visual novel Florence is coming to Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac. It tells the story of a young woman, Florence, as she discovers herself and experiences the joy and heartache of first love.
Florence, which is from the designer behind Monument Valley, was one of Engadget’s favorite games of 2018, in…
Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S20 lineup next Tuesday, and now we got more info about its pricing and availability in the company’s home market. According to a rumor, the phones will start from over $1,000 on the home market in South Korea, with the…
Kaskada raises $8 million to facilitate AI feature engineering
February 4, 2020
Feature engineering — the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from raw data — is essential to tuning machine learning performance. It’s also typically arduous and involves rewriting features before they’re deployed, which is why in 2018 Ben Chambers…
Cloud streaming is becoming a huge trend in gaming, and Nvidia has been cooking up its own service over the past couple of years. Today, Nvidia GeForce Now launches to the masses on multiple platforms. Here’s what you need to know.
Nvidia GeForce Now is a streaming service that’s similar to Google’s Stadia, but it takes a completely different approach to games. Instead of a new console in…
