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Microsoft launches real-time voice translation in Skype
Microsoft has launched real-time voice translation in Skype, which can now translate a person’s voice in real-time using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make the translated voice sound similar to the original speaker.
Amazon delays joining date of some graduates amid cost-cutting efforts
In an email seen by the Financial Times, a one-off payment of $13,000 has been offered to those affected, regardless of whether or not they decide to still join the company.
Noventiq acquires India's leading Cloud managed services provider G7 CR
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Amazon to breathe life into fantasy game 'Warhammer 40,000'
While commercial terms of the deal were not disclosed by London-listed Games Workshop, the move demonstrates Amazon’s push to make the most of a streaming boom and take on rivals including HBO Max and Netflix.
Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists
Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform.
The latest drama comes after Twitter suspended several prominent journalists who had covered an earlier story about the Elon Jet Twitter account that was banned for using publicly-available data to track Elon Musk’s private jet.
As it turns out, Twitter seemingly has a quirk that allows banned users to still participate in Twitter Spaces and converse with other members, and some of those who had been banned did just that. BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos started a group chat yesterday evening, and was joined by a number of journalists whose accounts had been suspended by Twitter, including the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and Mashable’s Matt Binder, as well as Jack Sweeney, the creator of the Elon Jet Twitter account who had his own personal account suspended too.
Elon Musk joined the conversation, where he continued to criticize those who not only shared real-time location data of his private jet, but those who reported on it. The exchange is available in various places online, including YouTube here:
After being pressed by journalists over some of his inconsistencies, Musk abruptly left the conversation, and shortly after the entire Spaces feature itself started playing up.
At the time of writing, it’s not possible to start a new Spaces conversation or join an existing one, certainly based on the various tests TechCrunch has done internally. In response to one Twitter user wondering what was going on with Spaces, Musk replied that it was “fixing a legacy bug,” and that it should be working again tomorrow.
Whether Spaces returns tomorrow or not, Twitter’s recent grand proclamations around Twitter 2.0 and its “continued commitment to the public conversation” could not look any more out of kilter with the events of the past 24 hours.
Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Global mobile ad spend to reach $362 billion in 2023, claims report
According to the data.ai report, mobile will take over the share of the advertising wallet as more time than ever is spent in apps, with total hours on track to surpass four trillion on Android phones alone in 2022.
Tinder's new 'Relationship Goals' to help users match with more intention
The new feature has started to roll out globally to members in several countries and will be available to all members by January 5, 2023, said the company.
YouTube Music may allow users to create custom radio
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Honda's new Accord to offer Google built-in
The 2023 Accord will be the company’s first vehicle with Google built-in, including Google Assistant, Google Maps and Google Play, and will arrive at dealers next month, Honda said in a blogpost.