Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google’s newest project, however, could change that. Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Independent game studio Human Computer, a collaborative creative powerhouse, has raised $5.7M in a seed round led by Makers Fund. a16z and former Airbnb COO Belinda ...

"We had a big, I don't know, existential crisis among students a few years back," Jure Leskovec told Fortune, "when it kind ...

Throughout my entire career, I assumed “real work” requires two things: a desk and a keyboard. I considered uninterrupted blocks on a calendar and curated spaces to be prerequisites for deep work. I ...

Caring for a loved one can be one of life’s most meaningful roles, but it often comes with heavy emotional costs. Many ...

CL1 is the name of the first commercially marketed computer in which human brain cells calculate. The price is low, as is the life expectancy. For the first time, there is a commercially available ...

Supercomputer poses as 13-year-old boy, becomes first ever to pass Turing Test. June 9, 2014— -- Like many 13-year-old boys, Eugene Goostman claims to be a know-it-all. The one thing that ...

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I didn’t notice how much typing slowed my thoughts down until I realized I’d stopped. It hit me on a Saturday afternoon. I was ...