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There's a sound effect in Super Mario 64 you can't hear in full unless it has been playing for 14 months. Sushi's swishing sound plays on an overlapping loop, meaning it never plays in full as the ...
Retool says social engineering, an AI deepfake, and a weakness in Google's Authenticator app helped the hacker breach the company last month. A hacker used AI to deepfake an employee’s voice and break ...
A patent application filed on February 28 and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on November 22 for "Voice effects based on facial expressions" is all about how a video clip of a ...
It’s probably been a minute since you’ve used the word “trickster” in a sentence, but thanks to TikTok, the silly term is on everybody’s mind. It all started when TikTokers began to see a new ...
If you plug your ears, the voices around you become muffled—while yours becomes annoyingly amplified. “It’s like talking with your head in a barrel. Your own voice sounds booming,” says Kévin Carillo, ...
Last night, I read my daughter a story before bed, like I always do. I picked an old favorite from her bookshelf—Giraffes Can’t Dance. But this time, a musical cast accompanied my narration. “The ...
There are plenty of existing soundboard apps (and sites), but the new app Farrago may be the best. Like most apps from Rogue Amoeba, it’s a fairly powerful tool with a smart and friendly interface, ...
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to ...
U.S. messaging giant Twilio confirmed it was hit by a second breach in June that saw cybercriminals access customer contact information. Confirmation of the second breach — carried out by the same ...
Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as ...