Amazon’s Alexa can already whisper, put on an accent and speak in of Samuel L.Jackson – and soon it could even impersonate your dead grandmother. The tech giant has revealed it is developing a system to let Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio. It could allow users of Amazon’s…
By Devik Jain and Sruthi Shankar June 23 (Reuters) – U.S.stocks indexes were mixed on Thursday as gains in healthcare and megacap technology stocks offset losses in energy and other economically sensitive sectors amid growing recession fears. Trading has remained volatile after a bruising selloff last week sparked by concerns that aggressive interest rate hikes…
Microsoft is putting the final nail in the coffin of Internet Explorer, with the legacy web browser set to retire for good tomorrow. The tech giant has gradually shifted away from the ageing software after 27 years on the scene, starting afresh with the new Edge browser in 2015 to coincide with the launch of…
By Yoruk Bahceli, Saikat Chatterjee and Tommy Wilkes LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) – From Silicon Valley shares to U.S.and European government bonds, securities that are already under heavy pressure stand to lose a major buyer as Switzerland ends its long-standing policy of recycling euros and dollars into foreign markets. The Swiss National Bank recently delivered…
By Alexander Cornwell and Tim Hepher DOHA, June 22 (Reuters) – Two high-tech Airbus A350 jets sit idle with their windows taped and engines covered in a floodlit hangar in the Gulf, hobbled by an international legal dispute between European industrial giant Airbus and Qatar’s national carrier. From a distance, the planes might seem like…
By Yoruk Bahceli, Saikat Chatterjee and Tommy Wilkes LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) – From Silicon Valley shares to U.S.and European government bonds, securities that are already under heavy pressure stand to lose a major buyer as Switzerland ends its long-standing policy of recycling euros and dollars into foreign markets. The Swiss National Bank recently delivered…
id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> and don’t appear to be going anywhere soon, even as offices reopen and health metrics improve amid the pandemic. And outside of work and school, people across the US continue to on and packages, and opt for to save money. All of these trends point to one key factor: a need for reliable internet. So,…
id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> is Microsoft’s latest operating system, which it officially began rolling out last October, and while many recent Windows laptops should have , some older models might not have the necessary hardware. And to run the new OS, then you’re definitely due for an upgrade. Right now at Woot, you can save…
By Lewis Krauskopf, Devik Jain and Anisha Sircar June 21 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes jumped over 2% on Tuesday as investors scooped up shares of megacap growth and energy companies after the stock market swooned last week on worries over a global economic downturn. All 11 major S&P 500 sectors gained, as stocks…
Microsoft is putting the final nail in the coffin of Internet Explorer, with the legacy web browser set to retire for good tomorrow. The tech giant has gradually shifted away from the ageing software after 27 years on the scene, starting afresh with the new Edge browser in 2015 to coincide with the launch of…