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A chilling episode of the Twilight Zone that first aired 60 years ago focused on a young boy (played by Bill Mumy) who frustrated his parents by insisting he speaks to his grandmother daily on the toy phone she had given ...
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If the coronavirus pandemic drove your life online, you've probably been there: Maybe you're using video chat to get work done or connect with far-flung friends. No matter how much bandwidth you have, the lag between one ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Picture using video chat like Zoom, except instead of seeing the person you call on a screen, it feels as if they are physically sitting across from you.
May 19, 2021
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Telecom
MIT researchers have designed a congestion-control scheme for wireless networks that could help reduce lag times and increase quality in video streaming, video chat, mobile gaming, and other web services.
Apr 10, 2020
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Computer Sciences
University of Washington researchers have developed new algorithms that solve a thorny challenge in the field of computer vision: turning audio clips into a realistic, lip-synced video of the person speaking those words.
Jul 11, 2017
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Consumer & Gadgets
Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools—an app called Copilot that helped software developers write computer code. Now GitHub is adding a ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Microsoft Corp. appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its "reimagined" Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning "feelings" or "Sydney," ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Business
Epic Games, the maker of video-game blockbuster Fortnite, agreed to pay $520 million to the US Federal Trade Commission on Monday for violating child privacy laws and duping minors and adults to make unintended purchases ...
Dec 19, 2022
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Millions of children log into chat rooms every day to talk with other children. One of these "children" could well be a man pretending to be a 12-year-old girl with far more sinister intentions than having a chat about "My ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Gaming platform Twitch on Tuesday introduced a tool that detects and blocks users who evade bans, a longstanding problem for victims of harassment.
Dec 1, 2021
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