From TechCrunch: Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates, the company today launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify...

From PC Mag: Using software to clone people's voices can be creepy and a security hazard. But Samsung has decided to bring voice-cloning technology to consumers through its virtual assistant Bixby.

The smartphone vendor is adding the voice-cloning capability to Bixby’s text-to-call feature, which...

From TechCrunch: Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a long-term partnership designed to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps and YouTube provided by the tech giant.

It’s an unusual deal that attempts to strike a Goldilocks-type...

From CNET: Amazon said Wednesday that it had completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of health care provider One Medical after the US Federal Trade Commission indicated it wouldn't challenge the merger.

Amazon said the acquisition, which was announced in July, will boost expand the primary care...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel on Wednesday said that its board of directors had reset its dividend policy to reduce quarterly dividend payments in a bid to maintain spending on new manufacturing capacity that is set to be deployed in the coming years, something that the company considers critically...

From CRN: Multiple news outlets report that Microsoft and the United States Department of Defense are investigating the exposure of a terabyte or more of military emails. The exposed server was secured Monday afternoon.

The data was stored in the Azure cloud computing service by Redmond, Wash...

From PC Mag: Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Bing to mobile devices and adding a new voice chat function.

Initially available only on the desktop, the chatbot has been added to the Android and iOS mobile apps for Bing, Edge, and Skype as a preview release, Microsoft announced(Opens in a new...

From PC Mag: Well, that’s devious. To catch cheaters in Dota 2, Valve resorted to setting up a trap inside the game, which ended up ensnaring over 40,000 players.

The company has since permanently banned all 40,000 accounts for using third-party software
“over the last few weeks” to cheat in the...

From The Verge: Microsoft is already loosening restrictions it recently placed on interactions with the Bing AI chatbot and said it’s going to start testing another option that lets users choose the tone of the chat, with options for Precise (shorter, more focused answers), Creative (longer and more...

From ExtremeTech: A new report from sources in Taiwan paints a sobering picture of Intel’s CPU plans for next year. The company will supposedly launch Meteor Lake this year, then follow it up with Arrow lake in early 2024. However, sources speaking to DigiTimes report Intel will delay placing its...