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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. The former executive vice president of Samsung Research’s Global AI Centers specializes in end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end text-to-speech tools, and language modeling.

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Tesla will have ‘good news’ in Mexico, foreign minister teases

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The company has been rumored to be looking for suitable land in Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, and Mexico for some time. The company said it would discuss its Master Plan Part 3, scaling to “extreme size,” and information regarding SpaceX and the Boring Company. Mexico emerged as the front-runner several months ago.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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7 billion In 2021, global sales of thumb drives from all manufacturers surpassed $7 billion, a number that is expected to rise to more than $10 billion by 2028. Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this Fall. Plus, users can search for points of interest using Google with voice or text and have the directions when they start their Sonata Plug-in Hybrid. km) of all electric range and a 9.8 Earlier post.).

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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With COVID-19 shaking the global supply chain like an angry toddler with a box of jelly beans, the average person had to take a crash course in the semiconductor industry. SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too. And many of them didn't like what they learned.

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Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

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Just a few years after this preposterous doomsday alarm, the annual growth of global population peaked at about 2.1 This group of countries now includes many states in Central and Eastern Europe and also such populous countries as Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea. percent and immediately began to decline. The latest U.N.

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