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New text-to-speech engine from AWS sounds like newsreader

New text-to-speech engine from AWS sounds like newsreader

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a number of new neural text-to-speech models. One of those models has a style that has to imitate the way the newsreader sounds. AWS states that speech quality is important, but that more can be done to make a synthetic voice sound more realistic, says TechCrun... Read more

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Microsoft stops in summer 2021 with Skype for Business Online

Microsoft stops in summer 2021 with Skype for Business Online

Microsoft will stop using Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021. After that, users can use Teams for their business calls. New Office 365 customers will be put on Teams from September 1st this year, and will no longer be able to select the old service as an option. Microsoft has been saying sin... Read more

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Google introduces business tools for hybrid and multi-cloud

Google introduces business tools for hybrid and multi-cloud

On Tuesday, Google announced a series of tools for organizations that apply a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. A beta version of a new service for migrating virtual machines from Microsoft Azure is also part of this. Google is also expanding its network portfolio for companies that are modernising ... Read more

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Kaspersky measures double number of fake PC cleaners in research

Kaspersky measures double number of fake PC cleaners in research

Researchers from cybersecurity company Kaspersky have discovered that the number of cases of so-called 'hoax system cleaners' has doubled over the past year, according to the company to Techzine. In the first half of this year, 1,456,219 PC users worldwide, including the Dutch and Belgians, were aff... Read more

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Data over 100 million people stolen from large hack American bank

Data over 100 million people stolen from large hack American bank

The American bank Capital One has been the victim of a large-scale hack. 33-year-old software engineer Paige Thompson stole personal data from about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. It's unknown why she attacked the bank. Thompson carried out her attack between 12 March and 17 July, wr... Read more

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Microsoft introduces uniform search engine for code examples

Microsoft introduces uniform search engine for code examples

Microsoft has added a whole new experience especially for developers on docs.microsoft.com. It is a uniform search engine for examples of code. With the new search engine, Microsoft is trying to make it easier for developers to discover relevant examples of code, no matter what Microsoft product or ... Read more

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Google researchers reveal security threats to iOS

Google researchers reveal security threats to iOS

Two members of Project Zero, Google's security team, have published details and demo code for five of the six "interactionless" security holes in iOS. Weaknesses can be exploited via the iMessage app on iPhones. The six security holes were also fixed in iOS 12.4 on 22 July. Details about one of the ... Read more

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