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Even OpenAI says its new voice cloning tool has major potential for misuse

6:57pm April 04, 2024

by Dara Kerr

All you need is a 15-second recording of someone's voice to recreate an eerily good AI version using a new tool from Open AI. Even the company says there's great potential for misuse.

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Amazon said on April 3, 2024, it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift.

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Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS

10:33am April 04, 2024

by The Associated Press

The AWS layoffs follow other layoffs that happened at Amazon and its subsidiaries this year, including at Prime Video, the MGM Studios unit and Twitch, the social media platform owned by Amazon.

The first Amazon Fresh grocery store in London opened in 2021. The company is replacing its "Just Walk Out" technology at U.S. stores with smart shopping carts, but leaving it in the U.K.

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No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

5:52pm April 03, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

The retailer banked big on the cashier-less tech. It's now out at Amazon Fresh stores in the U.S. But Amazon's grocery ambitions are only shapeshifting.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan off the island's east coast on Wednesday and temporarily disrupted production at semiconductor factories that produce chips major Silicon Valley companies rely on for products and services.

World News

Taiwan earthquake briefly halts chip factories that power the global economy

5:23pm April 03, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes more than 90% of world's most advanced chips, also halted production, but it plans to resume chipmaking overnight.

Around the country, state legislatures and school districts are looking at ways to keep cellphones from being a distraction in schools.

Education

Indiana lawmakers ban cellphones in class. Now it's up to schools to figure out how

4:03pm April 03, 2024

by Kirsten Adair

Many schools — but not all — in the state and around the U.S. already ban phones in class. This requires it now in Indiana.

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An Amazon Fresh grocery store is seen, Feb. 4, 2022, in Warrington, Pa. Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain.

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Amazon says it is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Fresh grocery stores

2:07am April 03, 2024

by The Associated Press

Amazon says the technology will now be replaced by smart carts that allow customers to skip the checkout line but also see their spending in real time.

Google to destroy private browsing history of millions who used 'Incognito Mode'

5:11am April 02, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

After settling a class action suit over the company's incognito viewing mode in Chrome, Google says it will destroy millions of user search histories.

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Morning news brief

5:11am April 02, 2024

Iran accuses Israel of deadly attack on its consulate in Syria. Florida Supreme Court orders 6-week abortion ban to take effect May 1. Google to delete search data of millions who used incognito mode.

Attendees visit booths at the RePlatform conference in Las Vegas in March. The conference crowd was a hybrid of anti-vaccine activists, supporters of former President Donald Trump and Christian conservatives.

How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy

4:31pm April 01, 2024

by Lisa Hagen

Due to fears of "cancellation," alternative technology and financial platforms are being built for the so-called freedom economy by figures on the far right, including those with antisemitic beliefs.

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Google launched Gmail 20 years ago. Many thought it was an April Fools' prank

6:58am April 01, 2024

by Michel Martin

When Google launched Gmail 20 years ago today, many thought it was an April Fools' Day prank — 1 GB of storage was a lot then! But the email platform is no joke with well over a billion users today.

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