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Master Python: A Comprehensive Tutorial for Beginners on YouTube

So, you want to learn Python, and you’re thinking YouTube is the place to do it. Smart move! The internet is packed with video lessons that can take you from zero to coding hero. But with so many ...
Wired

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ ...
TechCrunch

Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline

Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon. The app is free to ...
TechCrunch

Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription

Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis ...
IEEE

FPGA Implementation of PoolFormer Network Using Python-Driven High-Level Synthesis Framework for Edge-AIoT Speech Recognition

Abstract: This brief presents an edge-AIoT speech recognition system, which is based on a new spiking feature extraction (SFE) method and a PoolFormer (PF) neural network optimized for implementation ...
TechRepublic

Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages. Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C’mon in. Meta has unveiled Omnilingual ...
Windows Report

Set Up Speech Recognition in Windows 11 Step by Step

Speech recognition in Windows 11 lets you control your PC with your voice, making typing and navigation faster and easier. This guide will show you all you need to know to set it up and start using it ...
Wired

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...
Business Wire

Deepgram Launches Flux - The World’s First Conversational Speech Recognition Model

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VapiCon 2025 – Deepgram, the world’s most realistic and real-time Voice AI platform, today announced from VapiCon 2025 the launch of Flux, the world’s first ...
The Conversation

How safe is your face? The pros and cons of having facial recognition everywhere

Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based ...
The New York Times

What to Know About ‘Hate Speech’ and the First Amendment

There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington In the wake of the killing of the ...