Microsoft’s latest open source release, VibeVoice-1.5B, redefines the boundaries of text-to-speech (TTS) technology—delivering expressive, long-form, multi-speaker generated audio that is MIT licensed, scalable, and highly…
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in a U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to block competition in the fast-growing AI…
PRESTON, United Kingdom — China launched a new batch of Guowang broadband satellites late Monday, continuing a flurry of missions to build a national low Earth orbit communications megaconstellation.
New research highlights that nutrient deficiencies are widespread among children with autism in Singapore, with risks tied to age and ethnicity rather than picky eating, underscoring the need for routine screening and early…
Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images.
The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that’s rich in the mineral…
We uniformly combined data from the NASA Kepler and K2 missions to compute planet occurrence rates across the entire FGK and M-dwarf stellar range. The K2 mission, driven by targets selected by guest observers, monitored nine times more M dwarfs…
This study presents a thorough analysis of 10 detached eclipsing binaries that contain main-sequence stars. We have utilized a multifaceted approach, incorporating data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST),…
What can sub-Neptunes, exoplanets whose sizes are between Earth and Neptune, and which are between the known for their water-rich compositions, teach astronomers about both where and how to find life beyond…
For the next few nights, the moon will be getting brighter and brighter until we reach the full moon. We’re on day two of the lunar cycle, a series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility….