Pocket TTS is an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs, clones voices from 5 seconds of audio, and keeps voice ...

Vinay K. Chaudhri is principal scientist at Knowledge Systems Research in Sunnyvale, California. Whenever assessments measure the intended skill inaccurately, it is considered a proxy failure. For ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows. Florida has had a significant shift of registered voters in the Republican direction, a remarkable inversion that explains ...

Most full stack apps rely on a database. That means every time a user clicks, scrolls, or loads a page — your app makes a database query. But here’s the problem: Databases are slow compared to ...

Abstract: Encapsulation is one of the basic characteristics of object-oriented programming. However, the access modifiers provided by common object-oriented languages do not help much because they ...

In less than a month, Americans and permanent residents will only be able to pass through airport security or enter a federal government building if they have a Real ID. Most states are not yet fully ...

Google has released the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework aimed at making it easier for developers to build, manage, and deploy multi-agent systems. ADK is written in Python and ...

Every year popular games release patches with special content celebrating April Fools' Day, and some studios even develop special limited-time-only game modes to celebrate the silly day. These special ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...