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A new AI test is outwitting OpenAI, Google models, among others

Mashable Tech

SEE ALSO: I compared Sesame to ChatGPT voice mode and I'm unnerved "However, these are narrow, specialized capabilities. By comparison, its 4 percent score on the second edition shows how difficult the test is, but also how there's a lot more work to be done with reaching human level intelligence. OpenAI's o3-low model scored 75.7

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Siri gets a new voice in iOS 15.4 beta

The Verge

adds a fifth American voice for its Siri voice assistant. Apple’s user-facing interface simply calls it “Voice 5,” but iOS developer Steve Moser reports that its filename refers to the new voice as “Quinn.” Axios notes that the new voice sounds more gender-neutral than earlier Siri voices.

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Echo Dot vs. Echo Pop: Which Amazon device should you buy during the Big Spring Sale?

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The app is also where you’ll connect other apps like Spotify or Audible to stream them on your Echo devices using Alexa voice commands. Everything else is done through voice commands or through the Alexa app. SEE ALSO: Echo vs. Echo Dot: Which Amazon device should you buy? The devices themselves are also very straightforward.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

The voices and experiences of workers of color are critical to achieving nonprofit missions and are needed at all levels, from non-management to the C-suite and boards. By comparison, the rate of financial hardship at retail trade nonprofits (e.g., Hardship often hits certain demographic groups harder than others.

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Slack CEO: Microsoft is ?unhealthily preoccupied with killing us?

The Verge

Slack obviously has its own voice and video calling features, but it’s not the primary focus of the app, and often, businesses integrate Zoom or Cisco’s WebEx instead. Microsoft has been moving businesses from Skype for Business to Teams, which traditionally focused on voice and video calling.

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Hallow Road review: Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys have come to scare you senseless

Mashable Tech

Though it's a chipper photo of a young woman smiling in a colorful knit cap, it's unnerving because of the sharp contrast of her voice, unhinged and weepy on the other end of the line. Instead, all we see of her during her parents' mad dash is a profile photo beaming up from the caller ID on Maddie's phone.

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The ‘Knight Rider’ theme song played on the cello is the best kind of Gen-X nostalgia

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I (sort of) remember watching a young(ish) David Hasselhoff argue with the car, a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), voiced by William Daniels. The 1980s show Knight Rider was about a guy who drove a talking car and solved crimes. KITT had a Cylon-like red light on its (his?) Seriously, I am in awe.

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