AI Tools Helped Restore Speech for a Woman With Paralysis: ‘She Felt Embodied’

The technology that allows you to transcribe your work meetings might help people with paralysis speak again. Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco used generative AI to reduce the delay between when a person with severe paralysis attempts to speak and when the computer device plays the sound. Their work helped a woman … Read more

Secrets, espionage tools and a 110-year-old lemon on show in exhibition from Britain’s MI5 spy agency

A desiccated 110-year-old lemon that played a key role in espionage history is one of the star attractions of a London exhibition drawn from the files of MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency. Compact spy cameras, microdots in a talcum powder tin and a briefcase abandoned by fleeing Soviet spy Guy Burgess are also part of … Read more

These Are the Best Photoshop AI Tools: How to Use Generative Fill, Expand and Remove

Photoshop is the original photo-editing app, and a lot has changed since it launched 35 years ago. One of the biggest changes is the evolution of generative AI. Adobe has leaned into AI, and Photoshop has a bunch of new AI-powered tools. But it can be hard to understand where exactly they can fit into … Read more

Nvidia’s New Tools Make Running AI on Your Computer a Breeze

Nvidia has a new suite of AI tools that allows people with RTX hardware to more easily run AI models locally on their computers, the chip giant said in a blog post on Tuesday. Called Nvidia NIM microservicespeople with RTX graphics cards, including the recently released 50-series, can easily install AIs on their machines to … Read more

In ‘A Working Man,’ Jason Statham’s tools are hammers, guns and fists

“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes. A soldier’s corpse rests under an American flag. A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site. There’s something modestly affecting (and complicated) about the career arc of a contractor named Levon Cade (Jason Statham) who once blew up buildings … Read more

FDA employees now lack the tools to do their jobs

— OPINION — Many critical functions of the food division of the Food and Drug Administration have been drastically slowed or entirely stopped since late January, potentially making Americans less safe, current FDA employees say. The Human Foods Program (HFP), as the food division is now known, is responsible for ensuring the safety of most … Read more

Microsoft Lets Free Copilot AI Users Use Voice Conversation and Complex Query Tools

If you’re a Copilot user, you now have more artificial intelligence tools at your fingertips: Microsoft is giving unlimited free access to Voice and Think Deeper on its free tier. Voice lets you have a conversation with the AI tool using verbal commands, while Think Deeper allows for more complex questions than regular Copilot, as … Read more