Google’s parent company Alphabet is increasingly commercializing the technology coming out of its artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind, four years after acquiring it. Earlier this week, Google’s cloud business announced a new service that converts blocks of text into natural-sounding speech, the first product containing DeepMind code that’s for sale. The new Google Cloud Text-to-Speech…

REPORTER: Welcome back to Marlin’s Park. Just a moment ago, a very special ceremonial first pitch. The Marlins in partnership with Anthony Rizzo and his foundation hosting four families from Marjory Stoneman Douglas for a special pre-game ceremony tonight. The first pitch is thrown by the family and survivors affected by the MSD tragedy. Back…

Die iranische Regierung will bis Mitte April den Messenger Telegram sperren. Dies berichtet die iranische Nachrichtenagentur Mehr unter Berufung auf Alaeddin Borudscherdi, Vorsitzender des Parlamentsausschusses für nationale Sicherheit und Außenpolitik. « Es wurde auf höchster politischer Ebene entschieden », sagte Borudscherdi. Die App solle durch den lokalen, weitaus unbeliebteren Dienst Sorusch ersetzt werden. Das Thema sei « aus…

President Donald Trump lit into Amazon.com Inc. for the second time in three days with a pair of Twitter messages that said the online retailer “must pay real costs (and taxes) now!” The president on Saturday claimed, citing reports he didn’t specify, that the U.S. Postal Service “will lose $1.50 on average for each package…

The Order of Service lists his incredible credentials (Picture: i-Images)Thousands of mourners have lined the streets to pay tribute to renowned theoretical physicist Stehen Hawking who died peacefully at his home on March 14. Hawking, who died on March 14 at the age of 76, was famously an atheist but his children Lucy, Robert and…

Hollywood star Eddie Redmanye is among hundreds of mourners attending the funeral of British genius Prof Stephen Hawking, who will be laid to rest today. The actor, who played Prof Hawking in the 2014 biographical drama The Theory of Everything, has arrived at the University Church of St Mary the Great in Cambridge for today’s…

« Can we all just be collectively pissed at how they basically ignored the aftermath of the plane crash? You can’t just make me invest emotional time and energy into Lexie and Mark to go, ‘You know what? We’ll just give you one episode to grieve, name the hospital after them, and wash our hands of…